Andrew Warner asked: "Every time I talk to a founder, I hear about some AI workflow I never would have thought to try. What are the non-obvious ones you're seeing?"

Most people use AI to make stuff. The overlooked category: using AI to mirror things back to you. Scoring. Flagging. Routing. That's where the leverage is hiding.

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# SHOW NOTES

- The Make vs Mirror Matrix: you're probably doing Make — but Mirror is where the blind spots live
- Jeff Brewer gets rated on clarity, decisiveness, and interruptions after every single meeting
- Dan Shipper built a system that flags when he's avoiding confrontation
- Wade Foster (Zapier CEO) scores team meetings against Five Dysfunctions and sends individual feedback
- Pete Sena's mega prompt analyzed 13 years of my notes and surfaced patterns I'd forgotten
- Chris Brownridge routes meeting actions to Linear/calendar automatically via Claude agent
- One meeting. One mirror workflow. Ship it. Stack from there.

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# TOOLS MENTIONED

- Motion AI Exec Coach (meeting scoring)
- Granola (local-first meeting notes)
- Zapier (automation)
- Fireflies (meeting transcription)
- Claude Desktop / Claude Code (local file analysis)
- Linear (task routing)

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# ABOUT DEARBEN.AI

Practical AI for CEOs who don't have time to become AI experts.

Ben Fisher — 2x CEO, 3x CTO.
A founder-to-founder experiment answering real AI questions from operators running real companies.

Ask yours at https://DearBen.ai

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# CONNECT

Website: https://DearBen.ai
LinkedIn: https://fshr.co/profile
X: https://x.com/skinnyandbald

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Work happens in conversations. The problem is it stays there.

You hash out a product idea, talk through requirements, make decisions — and then somehow you're supposed to recreate all of that in a document later. That's where everything falls apart.

I use AI to extract the work that already happened and turn it into artifacts that keep the momentum going. PRDs, user stories, requirements — pulled straight from the conversation.

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# SHOW NOTES

• Work happens in conversations — but it stays trapped there
• The "missing middle" — decisions made verbally rarely become documents
• Extract the work, don't recreate it — AI pulls out what you already figured out
• Zero-draft artifacts — PRDs, user stories, requirements from the conversation itself
• Pressure-test with clarifying questions — surface gaps before you build
• 95% of the work already done — you just need to extract it

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# TOOLS MENTIONED

• Fireflies.ai — Meeting recording and transcription
• Claude Desktop — Extraction and synthesis
• Claude Code — Workflow automation
• claude-code-requirements-builder — Requirements extraction workflow

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# ABOUT DEARBEN.AI

Practical AI for CEOs who don't have time to become AI experts.

Ben Fisher — 2× CEO, 3× CTO.
A founder-to-founder experiment answering real AI questions from operators running real companies.

Ask yours at https://DearBen.ai

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# CONNECT

Website: https://DearBen.ai
LinkedIn: https://fshr.co/profile
X: https://x.com/skinnyandbald

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This isn't a Q&A episode — it's for builders who want to see how I actually work.

I walk through using Claude Code and Every's skill creator to build the system that helps me prepare for Dear Ben episodes. The process: do it manually first, pay attention to what you repeat, then systematize.

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# SHOW NOTES

• Do it manually first, then systematize — I did this process by hand several times before building the automation
• AI is probabilistic, not deterministic — the agent built the skill but forgot to create the slash command
• ChatGPT's Prompt Optimizer genuinely improves prompt efficacy, even for Claude
• The LLM asking questions extracts your thinking — it's a brainstorming tool that forces you to articulate what you believe
• Four phases: Ideation, Content Development, Proof of Concept, Blind Spots

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# TOOLS MENTIONED

• Claude Code
• ChatGPT Prompt Optimizer
• Every's Skill Creator Agent

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# ABOUT DEARBEN.AI

Practical AI for CEOs who don't have time to become AI experts.

Ben Fisher — 2× CEO, 3× CTO.
A founder-to-founder experiment answering real AI questions from operators running real companies.

Ask yours at https://DearBen.ai

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# CONNECT

Website: https://DearBen.ai
LinkedIn: https://fshr.co/profile
X: https://x.com/skinnyandbald

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.