The Startup Ideas Podcast

Google's Biggest AI Announcements (I Was There)

Live from Google I/O, I sit down with Logan Kilpatrick from the Google DeepMind team to unpack everything Google just announced and what it means for founders, developers, and anyone trying to build with AI right now. We dig into Gemini 3.5 Flash, the new Gemini Omni world model, the expanded Antigravity ecosystem, managed agents in the Gemini API, and the native Android app builder inside AI Studio. Logan breaks down how distillation is pushing Pro-level intelligence into Flash, where the biggest opportunities are for solo founders, and why the agentic era has finally moved from impressive demos to genuinely useful products.Thanks to Google for flying me out to Google I/O and making this conversation possible.Timestamps00:00 – Intro00:53 – Gemini 3.5 Flash: The New Workhorse Model01:49 – How Flash 3.5 Stacks Up Against Sonnet02:38 – Gemini Omni: A World Model for Any Input and Output06:18 – Building a Content and Creator Layer on Omni08:21 – What to look forward to10:53 – Google Spark and Managed Agents14:00 – The Agentic Era and Requests for Startups17:17 – The Antigravity Ecosystem Overhaul18:51 – AI Studio vs. Antigravity: Vibe Coding vs. Agentic Engineering21:31 – Native Android Apps Built Inside AI Studio23:44 – Closing ThoughtsKey PointsGemini 3.5 Flash ships as a Sonnet-level workhorse model tuned for long-running agentic tasks, coding, and tool use, available on day one to 900M+ Gemini app users.Gemini Omni is a single model that takes any input and produces any output across video, image, audio, and music, fusing Veo, Nano Banana, Lyria, and TTS into one system.Managed agents in the Gemini API let builders ship agentic products with a single API call, using skills and markdown instead of writing orchestration code.The Antigravity suite now spans an IDE, agent manager, CLI, SDK, and API surface, all sharing the same agent harness that powers Gemini Spark.AI Studio targets vibe coding and now builds native Android apps for free, while Antigravity targets production-quality, million-line-codebase engineering.The cost of intelligence keeps dropping thanks to distillation, opening up smaller markets that previously needed a 40-person team and venture funding to address.The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.comLCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/FIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenbergInstagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/FIND LOGAN ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/OfficialLoganKYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@LoganKilpatrickYTLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/logankilpatrick/

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9 Huge Startup Opportunities in the AI Boom

1w ago01:08:23Summary ready

I sit down with my friend Jonathan Courtney, a.k.a. Jicecream, to dig into the 9 biggest startup opportunities I see right now across B2C, AI, mobile, and IRL. We each pick ideas, trade reactions, and pressure-test them live. The conversation ranges from agent-first "action apps" to elder tech, third spaces, hobby retreats, pet health, AI-native media, and the case for selling AI "junior employees" to small businesses. Listeners walk away with a concrete map of where to build in 2026, plus the framing I use to decide which niche is worth marrying.Timestamps:00:00 – Intro01:14 – Idea 1: Unscripted Creator Shows (Twitch model for tech)07:50 – Idea 2: Action Apps: AI Agent Native Apps16:39 – Idea 3: Loneliness and IRL Communities26:47 – Idea 4: Elder Tech: Building for 65+33:21 – Idea 5: Adult Hobbies38:17 – Idea 6: AI Employee and AI Agents45:33 – Idea 7: Personalized Nutrition/Health53:08 – Idea 8: Pet Health and AI for Animals57:34 – Idea 9: AI-Native Media Companies Done Right01:03:18 – Stacking Ideas: Live + Retreats + Entrepreneurs01:07:22 – Final ThoughtsThe #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.comLCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/FIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenbergInstagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/FIND JONATHAN ON SOCIALUnscheduled CEO Podcast: https://www.unscheduledceo.com/X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/JicecreamLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-courtney-4510644b/

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Andrew Wilkinson: AI Agents run my business and life

1w ago00:47:02Summary ready

If you want more workflows and tactics to build a business with AI, check out this free workshop: https://www.ideabrowser.com/workshopI sit down with Andrew Wilkinson and we go deep on how he's restructured his work, his health, and his family office around AI agents. Andrew walks me through Deep Personality (an app he vibe-coded after running psychological screens on himself and his girlfriend), the autonomous SaaS business he runs through agent harnesses like Harbor, and the vector-database setup that lets him query Tiny and his personal holding company like an oracle. We cover where software is headed, why he's pouring capital into TSMC and data center stocks, and the daily AI workflows he's built around health, email triage, and a personalized morning podcast. Listeners walk away with concrete prompting tactics, agent architectures, and a frank read on where the moats are moving.Timestamps:00:00 – Intro01:50 – The OpenClaw and Claude Code Unlock04:53 – Demo: Deep Personality App10:38 – Harbor: An Agent Harness For Real Companies12:30 – Autonomous Companies: Hype Vs. Reality17:30 – Credibility As The Missing Layer For Vibe-Coded Products20:14 – Centralizing Data Pipelines21:35 – Vector Databases23:22 – Transitioning Companies to Agentic Companies25:22 – Where Andrew Would Build Today27:10 – The New Interface28:21 – Why build now30:59 – Replacing Adapar: A Networth Wealth Platform33:07 – Services As The New Software35:24 – G-Brain Explained and Andrew’s OpenClaws45:09 – Closing ThoughtsKey PointsAndrew runs a SaaS business called Deep Personality almost entirely through agents, generating roughly $20K of revenue while debugging eats half his time.Harbor (github.com/geekforbrains/Harbor) gives agents a GUI-style harness — dev, marketing, and support agents that can autonomously merge PRs and adjust ad budgets across PostHog, Meta, and Reddit.Andrew's family office swapped headcount for a $40K/month Claude bill; his CFO, who had zero coding background, vibe-coded a replacement for Adapar (priced at $50K–$100K/year) in about two weeks.Vector databases trained on Tiny and Andrew's holding company let him query 132 minority investments, P&Ls, and headcount data conversationally.For builders today, Andrew suggests aiming for a $1M–$2M product, then parking gains in TSMC and data center exposure given how fast software moats are eroding.His best prompting tip: ask the model to interview you with multiple-choice questions before generating any output.The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.comLCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/FIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenbergInstagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/FIND ANDREW ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/awilkinsonDeep Personality: https://deeppersonality.appTiny: https://www.tiny.com

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The $1M+ Solo AI Agent Business (Full Course)

2w ago00:47:55Summary ready

Nick agreed to personally set up your Orgo in a 15 min call: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/orgo_aiI sit down with Nick from Orgo to break down exactly how to run a one-person AI agent business that can realistically clear a few million dollars a year. Nick walks through the offer, the verticals worth chasing, the full software stack, and the live setup of an agent that manages other agents. We focus on tactics over theory, with specific tools, pricing, and the playbook for landing customers as a solopreneur. By the end, anyone with solid AI fluency will have a clear path from offer design to fulfillment.Timestamps00:00 – Intro02:54 – Designing the AI Agent Business Offer06:38– Selling an AI Employee, Not an Agent07:26 – Industries to Target (and Two to Avoid)14:54 – Content Is Overpowered and How to Get Customers17:51 – The Customer-Facing Tool Stack20:49 – Building Agents Stack25:51 – Model Picks: GPT 5.5, GLM 5.1, Kimmy, Opus 4.727:08 – Nick’s Stack28:14 – Why Obsidian Is the Second Brain Layer30:22 – Live Walkthrough: Spinning Up a Cloud Computer in Orgo33:53 – Cloud Computers vs. Mac Minis38:37 – Building Agents and Structuring Workspaces for Customers43:56 – Watchdogs, Observability, and Reliability45:28 – Closing Thoughts on the Solopreneur EraKey PointsSell unlimited agents, unlimited usage, and unlimited support to remove friction; most customers actually use one to three agents.Avoid healthcare and finance to start; focus on legacy verticals like marketing, law, insurance, manufacturing, wholesale, and real estate.OpenClaw agents go for around 5K a month; Hermes agents can go for 10K a month.The full stack: Granola, Trello, Loom, Superhuman, Asana, Codex, Hermes, Orgo, Composio, Agent Mail, and Obsidian.GPT 5.5 is the recommended default model for tool calling; GLM 5.1 and Kimmy work for lighter tasks; Opus 4.7 fits long-horizon coding.Use agents to set up other agents — pair Cloud Code or Codex with MCPs like Perplexity, Context7, and X MCP for live docs.The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.comLCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/FIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenbergInstagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/FIND NICK ON SOCIALYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@nickvasilesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickvasilescu/Personal Website: https://www.nickvasilescu.com/

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7 tiny AI agent ideas I built with Genspark Claw

2w ago00:29:52Summary ready

Get started building your tiny AI Agent business with Genspark Claw: https://www.genspark.ai/?utm_source=po&utm_campaign=GregIsenbergIn this solo episode, I share seven tiny, cash-flowing startup ideas you can build with AI in just a few prompts. I walk through how to use Genspark Claw, Genspark's new in-the-cloud agent product running Sonnet 4.6, and demonstrate two ideas I have already built (a dead domain flipper and a local restaurant liquidation broker), build a third idea live on camera (a hiring-signal cold outreach machine), and hand you a five-step framework for generating your own ideas. The goal is simple: give you the creative juices, the framework, and the practical know-how to ship a $200-$1,500/day business with AI as your employee.Timestamps00:00 – Intro01:28 – Idea 1: The Dead Domain Flipper06:19 – Idea 2: Local Restaurant Liquidation Broker11:03 – Idea 3: Hiring-Signal Cold Outreach Machine (building live)14:30 – Prevent Sleep, Heartbeat, and Treating Genspark Claw Like an Employee15:52 – Skills, Local File Access, and What Else Genspark Claw Can Do17:24 – Reviewing the 14 Personalized Cold Emails It Wrote20:35 – More Ideas: Buy-or-Build Memos, Dead Product Hunt SEO, Forgotten Apps24:18 – Framework for finding ideas: Public Data, Neglected Assets, Clear Buyer26:33 – What Else Comes With Genspark AI Works Base 4.0Key PointsTiny, boring, cash-flowing ideas beat billion-dollar ideas when you want to ship this month.GenClaw plus Slack turns Claude Sonnet 4.6 into an always-on AI employee for around $25/month.The repeatable pattern is: messy feed → mispriced asset → trigger event → obvious buyer → liquidity point.Three hunting lenses: places of constant change, things people ignore, and assets with clear urgency and spread.Talking to your agent in plain English ("strip the HTML entities, make the budget $2,500") replaces most engineering work.Selling agents with outcomes is the new SaaS, and shifts the model from per-seat pricing to outcome-based pricing.The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.comLCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/#Genspark and #WorkWithGensparkFIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenbergInstagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/

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My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop

2w ago00:51:01Summary ready

I sit down with Meng To for his second appearance on the pod to dig into design md, Google's newly open-sourced format for capturing the soul of a design and porting it across every medium and tool. Meng walks me through a live demo of how he uses design md alongside skills, HTML references, and tools like Aura, New Form, Codex, and OpenClaw to ship landing pages, motion design, slides, and mobile mocks that actually feel custom. We get into the design drift problem with one-shot prompts, why taste is the real moat for builders right now, and how he runs four products as effectively a team of one while iterating a thousand-plus prompts deep. If you build with agents and you want your work to stand out from the sea of purple-gradient lookalikes, this one is for you.Timestamps00:00 – Intro04:00 – What design md actually is07:17 – Examples: one design DNA across slides, promo videos, motion09:31 – How to create design system14:05 – The importance of taste and design18:28 – Variant, remixing, and skills as ingredients21:36 – Live demo: creating a landing page with design md and HTML24:36 – Thoughts on Google Stitch25:41 – Being fast and at edges is an unfair advantage29:29 – Midjourney parallels and the queuing flow state31:44 – Walking through skills (skeuomorphic, 3D, lasers)34:07 – Now everyone is a designer36:47 – The full design workflow38:50 – Iteration versus remix39:24 – Judgment per minute as the new craft41:06 – Solo building vs building a team44:34 – Taste is the moat48:25 – Building a second brain for design inspiration50:41 – Closing thoughtsKey PointsDesign md is a portable blueprint for typography, color, spacing, and effects that you attach to any prompt to keep design consistent across web, mobile, slides, and motion.One-shot prompts collapse on page two; a design system carries the soul across every medium and tool you switch into.Skills work like ingredients (lasers, skeuomorphic, 3D, copywriting), and stacking them on top of design md  is what separates custom work from generic vibe-coded output.Taste is the real moat right now, and you build it by surrounding yourself with great design and using every product in your niche.Iteration (90% of the time) keeps a product evolving; remix (10%) takes the same DNA into a new medium or category.The shift in craft is from moving pixels to making judgment calls per minute, with agents handling the mechanical work.The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.comLCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/FIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenbergInstagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/FIND MENG ON SOCIALAura: https://aura.buildX/Twitter: https://x.com/MengTo

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Screensharing How to Start an AI Agent Business Today With Genspark Claw

2w ago00:30:18Summary ready

Get started building your tiny AI Agent business with Genspark Claw: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/genspark_In this solo episode, I share seven tiny, cash-flowing startup ideas you can build with AI in just a few prompts. I walk through how to use Genspark Claw, Genspark's new in-the-cloud agent product running Sonnet 4.6, and demonstrate two ideas I have already built (a dead domain flipper and a local restaurant liquidation broker), build a third idea live on camera (a hiring-signal cold outreach machine), and hand you a five-step framework for generating your own ideas. The goal is simple: give you the creative juices, the framework, and the practical know-how to ship a $200-$1,500/day business with AI as your employee.Timestamps00:00 – Intro01:28 – Idea 1: The Dead Domain Flipper06:19 – Idea 2: Local Restaurant Liquidation Broker11:03 – Idea 3: Hiring-Signal Cold Outreach Machine (building live)14:30 – Prevent Sleep, Heartbeat, and Treating Genspark Claw Like an Employee15:52 – Skills, Local File Access, and What Else Genspark Claw Can Do17:24 – Reviewing the 14 Personalized Cold Emails It Wrote20:35 – More Ideas: Buy-or-Build Memos, Dead Product Hunt SEO, Forgotten Apps24:18 – Framework for finding ideas: Public Data, Neglected Assets, Clear Buyer26:33 – What Else Comes With Genspark AI Works Base 4.0Key PointsTiny, boring, cash-flowing ideas beat billion-dollar ideas when you want to ship this month.GenClaw plus Slack turns Claude Sonnet 4.6 into an always-on AI employee for around $25/month.The repeatable pattern is: messy feed → mispriced asset → trigger event → obvious buyer → liquidity point.Three hunting lenses: places of constant change, things people ignore, and assets with clear urgency and spread.Talking to your agent in plain English ("strip the HTML entities, make the budget $2,500") replaces most engineering work.Selling agents with outcomes is the new SaaS, and shifts the model from per-seat pricing to outcome-based pricing.The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.comLCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/#Genspark and #WorkWithGensparkFIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenbergInstagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/

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Hire a team of AI Agents

2w ago00:41:27Summary ready

I'm joined again by Imran Muthuvappa to walk through how to build your own AI Chief of Staff using a tool called Nebula. Imran shows me how to spin up specialized agents that handle the work a real chief of staff would do — surfacing team blockers, tracking project status, holding people accountable to offsite vision goals, running daily agenda briefings, and prospecting ICP leads. We also get into mini apps, model selection for cost efficiency, and why personal software is becoming a real category. By the end, the takeaway is clear: every role now has a "work on the job" component where you supervise yourself and offload tasks to agents.Links Mentioned:Try Nebula: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/nebulaPrecall Agent: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/precall-agentProject Status Agent: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/project-status-agentLead Gen Agent: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/lead-gen-agentTimestamps:00:00 – Intro02:13 – What is Nebula02:54 – What an AI Chief of Staff Actually Does4:26 – Nebula vs OpenClaw vs Hermes06:09 – Building the Blockage Radar Agent09:47 – Agent Features12:04 – Choosing Cheaper Models for Simple Tasks13:15 – Building Project Status Agent13:53 – Connecting Tools to Agents17:38 – Building Vision Tracker Agent22:07 – Mini Apps and Personal Software as a New Paradigm25:13 – Building a Daily Agenda Agent and Second Brain Integration30:25 – Hours Saved vs. Anxiety Reduced for Founders33:02 – Building the Lead Gen Prospector Agent39:19 – Final Thoughts: Automate Three to Five ThingsKey PointsAn AI Chief of Staff handles the boring executive support work — calendar, email, LinkedIn, project status — so a human can focus on decisions.Nebula lets you build, deploy, and share custom agents through a Slack-like interface, where each agent has its own goals, tools, and system prompt.Voice input via SuperWhisper or WhisperFlow gets you to roughly 150 words per minute, which Imran calls the biggest productivity lift available right now.Cheaper models like the Nebula model handle most chief-of-staff tasks well — reserve frontier models like Opus or Sonnet for deep coding or reasoning work.Mini apps inside Nebula are spinnable web dashboards that connect back to your agents — a glimpse of personal software replacing off-the-shelf tools.The new skill is judgment: picking which three to five things to automate out of your week.The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.comLCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/FIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenbergInstagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/FIND IMRAN ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/imranyeAlif: https://alif.build/

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How to win with AI Agents in 2026

4w ago01:26:54Summary ready

Limited BONUS: First 1,000 builders get $1,000. Claim yours while supplies lasts.: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/hyperagentI sit down with Howie Liu, co-founder and CEO of Airtable, to talk about the agent economy and the launch of HyperAgent. We walk through Sequoia's charts on AI agent deployment, the economics of token-based work versus human labor, and why frontier agents have crossed a threshold that changes how companies get built. Howie then does a live show-and-tell of HyperAgent, including a custom "Greg Isenberg contrarian AI" skill he spins up in real time. This one is for anyone building a solopreneur business, operating a fleet of agents, or trying to figure out where to place their bet in the agent ecosystemTimestamps00:00 – Intro02:22 – Sequoia's AI agent deployment chart reaction04:41 – Copilot vs Autopilot territory and the $1T+ opportunity08:13 – Agent economics vs human labor costs11:12 – Fastest enterprise adoption curve in history14:48 – The agent command center and fleet of 20 agents18:03 – What is HyperAgent?19:43 – Live demo: hyperlocal real estate market reports22:38 – HyperAgent as the founder, not just the developer23:21 – Street View, Zillow redesigns, and visual tool power24:15 – Command center view across a fleet of agents25:48 – Skills as the key primitive for frontier agents26:30 – Building the Greg Isenberg contrarian AI skill live32:31 – HyperAgent vs Perplexity Computer, Manus, OpenClaw, Codex34:52 – Reviewing writing skill36:55 – The arbitrage of persistence41:31 – Confidence milestones: first dollar, $10K/month35:27 – Reviewing contrarian tweet drafts live45:05 – Giving the agent feedback and building rubrics50:15 – Connectors, OAuth, and building custom API skills53:03 – How to get started with HyperAgent01:01:54 – Credit giveaway for listeners01:03:31 – Closing ThoughtsKey PointsFrontier agents have crossed a threshold in the last 4–5 months where they function as true autonomous coworkers, not just chat assistants.Reframe agent cost by value delivered: a $150 token spend for a board memo beats hours of human time, so anchor on opportunity cost.The real arbitrage is persistence: 99% of people quit after one shot, while daily practice for 30/60/90 days produces top 1% operators.Skills are the most important primitive in frontier agents, turning generally intelligent models into domain experts through playbooks.HyperAgent's differentiation is a low floor plus a high ceiling, with rubrics, LLM-as-judge evals, and fleet-wide observability for scaling.Aim for $100B companies with under 5 employees, built on fleets of always-on agents mapped to human job roles.The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.comLCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/FIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenbergInstagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/FIND HOWIE ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/howietlHyperagent: https://www.hyperagent.comAirtable: https://www.airtable.com-

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Codex clearly explained (and how to use it)

4w ago01:26:13Summary ready

I sit down with Riley Brown to get a hands-on tour of OpenAI's Codex, which he argues is the most powerful single interface for using AI agents today. Riley walks me through how Codex unifies vibe coding, knowledge work, browser use, computer use, and automations into one app, all running on GPT 5.5. I come in as a complete Codex skeptic who has spent most of my time in Claude Code, and Riley shows me skills, plugins, projects, Remotion, Chronicle, and the in-app browser to make his case. By the end, the question becomes whether the era of separate tools for documents, decks, code, and research is collapsing into a single super app.00:00 – Intro03:23 – What is Codex06:46 – Why a GUI beats the terminal for most users10:13 – Codex: the all in one platform12:48 – Atlas browser inside Codex14:21 – Remotion explained and motion graphics workflows19:28 – Computer use and Chronicle22:26 – Plugins, skills, MCPs, and integrations31:57 – Evals, examples, and good outpu38:43 – Hard questions: who Codex is built for40:44 – Browser use plays itself in chess43:20 – Running Claude Code inside Codex45:58 – GPT 5.5 cost and effort settings48:50 – GPT Images 2.054:09 – Why most people feel overwhelmed by AI tools57:09 – Three projects to start with on day one and Closing thoughtsKey PointsCodex is positioned as a super app where coding, documents, decks, research, and automations live in one interface, with GPT 5.5 as the underlying model.The trend across Codex, Cursor, and the Claude Code desktop app is the same GUI pattern: chats on the left, agent in the middle, output on the right.Plugins offer official integrations like Slack, Notion, Sheets, Remotion, and Canva, while skills are user-created instructions stored as a SKILL.md file.Computer use and browser use have crossed a speed threshold; the chess demo runs at near-human pace, a leap from earlier "dial-up" feeling agents.Running Claude Code inside the Codex terminal lets you stack both subscriptions and use each model where it shines.The biggest unlock for companies is collecting good examples of finished work so agents can match the bar.The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.comLCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/FIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenbergInstagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/FIND RILEY ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/rileybrownVibe Code App: https://www.vibecodeapp.comYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@rileybrownai/videos

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Google's Biggest AI Announcements (I Was There)

9 Huge Startup Opportunities in the AI Boom

Andrew Wilkinson: AI Agents run my business and life

The $1M+ Solo AI Agent Business (Full Course)

7 tiny AI agent ideas I built with Genspark Claw

My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop

Screensharing How to Start an AI Agent Business Today With Genspark Claw

Hire a team of AI Agents

How to win with AI Agents in 2026

Codex clearly explained (and how to use it)