Two and a half years ago, I watched AI models write their first decent email. Most people saw a neat trick. I saw the end of work as we know it.

Like many, I carry the scars of missed waves. I watched the birth of the internet, but was too young and dumb to capitalize on the opportunity. Crypto surged while I made terrible plays, ignoring long term holds and chasing quick wins. Housing markets boomed while I let them pass by, squandering yet more opportunity to build generational wealth. When the next great force arrived, I promised myself I'd be ready.

So I walked away from everything and went all in on AI in early 2023. Every single day for two and a half years - studying, testing, sharing. Tracking every tool, every update, every bold claim, while sharing my journey with my modest but growing community over on Patreon. While I did that work, the market filled with noise.

I watched the AI influencers arrive. You know them - the "10 ChatGPT prompts that will change your life" crowd. The "I made $10K in 10 minutes" screenshots. The same recycled bullshit dressed up with new thumbnails. They turned AI into another get-rich-quick scheme, complete with courses that teach you to copy-paste prompts AI wrote but no-one ever used. Their product? You.

Now half the world thinks AI is overhyped because that's all they see. Slop merchants selling digital snake oil while the real revolution happens quietly in the background.

Beneath all that noise, I'm tracking the real signal. Technology evolves fast. But real disruption only happens when people actually use it to change how they work. While everyone debates what AI might become, I'm watching what entrepreneurs and business owners actually do with it. Creators folding these tools into their workflows. Agency owners testing automation behind the scenes. That's where disruption lives - in the hands of people who use tools instead of talking about them.

The gap is closing fast. Those promises about AI that could think, plan, and execute? About AI that handles your grunt work and carries the execution burden that keeps so many trapped? Agents that collaborate like actual teammates? That's happening right now. The tools are finally matching the vision we've carried since ChatGPT burst on the scene.

I know this because I'm living it. Right now, I'm building a new business from scratch with a friend, putting 2.5 years of obsessive learning to work. The AI-powered frameworks I've built. The custom tools I've created to power my workflows. The deep skill of knowing exactly WHAT to ask and HOW to ask it. This is my edge, and now it's time to cash in. You'll see every experiment, every failure, every breakthrough as it happens.

That's why this newsletter is back. To cut through the slop and deliver the real edge.

Here's what you'll see from me:

• Battle-tested playbooks - systems that actually work in real businesses, complete with numbers, screenshots, and honest failures • Live case study - I'm building a new business with AI agents and documenting every move as it happens
• Pure signal - I spot what matters before it hits your feed, then show you exactly how to act on it

This is about showing the real potential of AI and writing a new playbook for builders ready to disrupt the ordinary.

Let's get to work.

~ Stu

I'm sitting in a bar in Hoi An, Vietnam, catching up with two friends over drinks. Sisters who run a murder mystery game business called "Sisters Grimm Mysteries." Fun brand, clever games, and hundreds of 5 star reviews on Etsy… but they're stressed.

Their Shopify site was broken and not performing at all. Etsy competition (including copycats) were eating into their sales. Their website conversion rate? A brutal 0.2%. That means 999 out of every 1,000 visitors left without buying anything.

"We need our own platform to work," one sister says. "But we don't know where to start."

I pull out my phone. Open MANUS agent. Right there at the bar, I describe their problem - failing website, terrible conversion, non-technical founders who need simple solutions.

MANUS analyzes their site. Spots the issues. Spits out a step-by-step plan that doesn't require a developer or a marketing degree. Just basic changes they can make themselves.

Two months later, I get a message. Their website sales are up over 300%. Conversion rate jumped from 0.2% to over 2%. That's a 10x improvement. Now they're back focusing on driving traffic again because they know their site actually converts.

This all happened on my phone, in a bar, well before I'd even built my MANUS prompt generator and workflows, simply drawing from the skills I had developed since going all in on AI. It was the first general agent, solving a real problem for real people in real-time. It worked in the background while we were catching up and having a good time!

The lesson?

Stop overthinking AI. Start with your biggest problem. That's where you see the true value. Not in generating endless content or writing emails, but in solving the thing that's actually keeping you up at night.

The Sisters Grimm went from barely staying afloat to building a platform that works. All because they used AI to tackle their most pressing issue first.

Wanna check them out for yourself? See them here: https://sistersgrimmgames.com/

Over to you.

What's your 0.2% problem? That's where you start.