Inner Circle Weekly Briefing #2: 10/21/25
We Spent 80+ Hours Learning About And Building With AI Last Week. Here's What Matters.
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Last week, we shared Voice AI capture workflows, automated proposal generation, uniqueness extraction frameworks, and Nvidia's founder on preparing for superintelligence.
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Preview Of What We Shared This Week
Max Bernstein On How Protect Yourself From The Upcoming Authentication Crisis
Tam Nguyen On How Stop Automating Broken Processes
Zain Haseeb On How To Use The Scratchpad Framework To Understand AI Better
Michael Simmons On How Understanding “Intelligy” Helps You Think Smarter About AI
❶ Max Bernstein On…How Protect Yourself From The Upcoming Authentication Crisis
Max Bernstein (Expertise Extraction Specialist) Shared The 5-Minute Exercise That Builds Your Authentication Layer Before AI Makes Surface-Level Expertise Worthless - How To Prove You’re Real With Documented Cognitive Patterns That Can’t Be Faked
What You Get:
The 3-year window: Why experts need to document their unconscious patterns before “systematically extracted expertise” becomes table stakes
5-minute IP extraction exercise: The exact prompts for capturing your Cognitive Fingerprint and building your provenance layer
What AI can’t fake: How to prove you’re real when AI generates infinite surface-level expertise
The competitive moat: Why one extracted framework beats 100 generic tips posts when expertise becomes currency
Why It Matters:
Greg Isenberg’s X post about AI slop revealed the authentication crisis experts are facing: when AI can generate infinite variations of surface-level content, your Cognitive Fingerprint becomes your only proof of authenticity. Max breaks down the specific exercise consultants and coaches are using NOW to extract their invisible expertise and establish their provenance layer before everyone else figures this out.
❷ Tam Nguyen On…Stop Automating Broken Processes
Tam Nguyen (AI Automation Architect) Shared A Custom GPT That Walks You Through Toyota’s 88-Year Optimization Methodology So You Stop Automating Broken Processes And Start Building AI Workflows That Actually Work
What You Get:
Custom GPT: Walks you through Toyota’s exact optimization methodology using TPS principles
The framework: Maps current process → Identifies waste → Creates improvement plan in 5 minutes
Why it matters: Optimization must precede automation (Toyota proved it over 88 years)
Sample conversation: Live example showing exactly how the analysis works
Why It Matters:
Most people jump straight to AI automation and wonder why they’re spending more time fixing outputs than they saved. Tam built a Custom GPT that applies Toyota’s proven methodology to identify dysfunction BEFORE you automate. Perfect for business owners drowning in manual work or operators building AI workflows that keep breaking.
❸ Zain Haseeb On…How To Use The Scratchpad Framework To Understand AI Better
Zain Haseeb (AI-First Strategist) Shared The Scratchpad Framework That Forces AI To Show Its Complete Reasoning Process Before Answering - Turning Black Box Outputs Into Transparent, Auditable Thinking You Can Actually Trust
What You Get:
Complete transparency: Force AI to show its complete reasoning process before answering
7-minute video walkthrough: Breaks down each analytical section and why this beats standard reasoning models
Public Perplexity Space: Test the framework immediately without any setup required
Full implementation guide: Scratchpad prompt, setup instructions, GitHub repo, and example conversations
Why It Matters:
When you can’t see how AI arrived at an answer, you either blindly trust it (risky), manually validate everything (defeats the purpose), or only use AI for low-stakes tasks (massive missed opportunity). Zain shares the structured prompting methodology that makes AI confirm understanding, map out reasoning step-by-step, check for biases, and show its complete work. The result: measurably better outputs you can actually trust.
❹ Michael Simmons On…Understanding “Intelligy” Helps You Think Smarter About AI
Michael Simmons (AI Blockbuster Content) Shared Why Almost Everyone Is Making A Category Error With AI - And The “Intelligy” Mental Model (created by Eben Paga) That Unlocks Breakthrough Prompts You’d Never Imagine (Plus Three Novel Prompts That Only Become Visible With This Frame)
What You Get:
The category error: Why treating AI as “just another tool” blocks breakthrough prompts
Eben Pagan’s concept: Intelligy as a new domain (like biology and technology) that creates cognitive space
Three novel prompts: The Cognitive Blind Spot Revealer, Alien Intelligence Interrogator, and Collaborative Evolution Partner
Mental model shift: How the frame you use determines what AI can do for you
Why It Matters:
Almost everyone is making a category error with AI by squeezing it into existing mental models (tool, junior employee, statistics). Michael shares Eben Pagan’s “Intelligy” concept that creates new cognitive space for seeing what AI actually is, plus three profound prompts that only become visible when you shift from “AI as tool” to “intelligy as new domain.”
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