Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons

Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons

Introducing Private WhatsApp Groups 2.0

3 Additional, Awesome AI Pioneers Will Share Their Best Nuggets Weekly (video clips, prompt hacks, video walkthroughs of tool features, etc)

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Michael Simmons
Oct 03, 2025
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In August, I launched a private WhatsApp group for paid subscribers. The premise was simple:

  • Every month, I spend 100+ hours learning about the frontier of AI knowledge work from highly curated sources.

  • Most of the clips never make it into the newsletter, because they don’t fit into the longform articles I write.

  • In the Inner Circle WhatsApp group, I’ll share the best nuggets I find, along with a quick paragraph or voice note on why I thought it was interesting/important.

  • WhatsApp is a more personal, informal space for us to connect.

  • If you’re a basic paid subscriber ($20/month), you get access for free, in addition to $2,000 in other bonuses (courses, books, prompts, etc).

A little over a month later, I’m doubling down.

Now, I have an even more exciting announcement that will multiply the value of the paid newsletter…


Introducing Private WhatsApp
Groups 2.0


I am part of several private WhatsApp groups with people on the frontier of AI.

Together, these groups are a pillar to my AI learning, because they give me things I can’t get anywhere else:

  • Wisdom Of Crowds Effect. Let’s say ChatGPT releases a new feature or model. Each of us tries it out immediately, and we each unveil different hacks to get the most from it.

  • Super actionable, advanced tips. Rather than generic tutorials designed for the masses, we each share the highest leverage nuggets with no fluff.

  • It works. I get REAL secrets from people who are actually making money and having an impact with AI. Not hype.

  • Real-time. I receive real-time, authentic, personal, and unvarnished thoughts rather than content created for broad publication consumption.

Now you can be an AI insider even if you’re not located in Silicon Valley or surrounded by friends who are all into AI.

Starting today, you can join the WhatsApp channels of three other AI pioneers with specialities different than my own. Links to the channels are at the bottom of this email.

Here’s What You’ll Get In The 3 New WhatsApp Channels

The premise of multiple WhatsApp groups is simple.

Each of us:

  • Has built a 7-figure business from scratch and/or built a multi-six-figure income.

  • Has been all-in learning AI since the launch of ChatGPT.

  • Is getting real 10x results from AI.

  • Has a unique area of AI specialty, curiosity, and personality.

  • Will have a separate WhatsApp channel you can join.

  • Will post on our channel at least once a week.

Then, you:

  • Can follow whoever you align with most while also titrating how much information you take in.

  • Receive short video walkthroughs and curated video clips and high-leverage hacks that are quick to digest,super high signal, and instantly valuable.

Said differently, we spend 20+ hours per week learning about AI. You get the best 5 minutes of that time. Therefore, even if you can’t go all-in like we are, you can still stay on the frontier.

Below is what you’ll get from each AI pioneer:

#1: Max Bernstein’s Inner Circle WhatsApp Channel

Max has spent 18 years in marketing strategy at major brands. One of the highlights of this time was leading the most successful animal health launch in history ($366 million in year 3). Then AI disrupted his next career move. Rather than resisting AI, he decided to go all-in and obsessively figure out the one thing AI can’t replicate: unconscious expertise.

Now, he spends 10+ hours a day in AI, extracting what experts do but can’t explain. He analyzes the transcripts they provide from their own work (100+ sessions so far across coaching, consulting, and strategy including clients like Jay Abraham and Michael Hyatt’s team.

In the channel, you get the prompts he’s testing, the patterns he’s seeing across his clients, and the workflows that actually create breakthroughs. Plus some vibe coding stuff when he can’t help himself. You get everything as I figure it out.

Read Max’s full story »

#2: Zain Haseeb’s Inner Circle WhatsApp Channel

Zain has built a rare combination of experiences: consultant at Deloitte advising Fortune 500 companies, founder who built and sold a multi-million dollar agency, MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, and now leads billion-dollar strategies at General Motors.

When GPT-4 dropped in March 2023, everything changed for him. He completed a month’s worth of leadership-grade strategy work in two days. Not just faster. Better. More research, more angles, higher quality. When he presented to executives with 30 years of experience, they were impressed. Then they asked how long it took. He said two days. They didn’t believe him.

For a year, he was Clark Kent. Kept the superpower hidden. Went all-in while everyone else optimized old workflows. By 2025, he realized he needed to share what he’d discovered: AI doesn’t just make you more productive, it changes the fundamental value of your time.

He calls it “thinking in AI.” Breaking work into atomic units. Finding leverage points everywhere. Systems thinking applied to AI. Quality over quantity.

In the channel, you get frameworks for finding AI leverage in everything you do, quality-focused approaches from enterprise contexts, the tools actually worth using, and why AI changes what an hour of your time is worth. Everything as he discovers it.

Read Zain’s full story »

#3: Tam Nguyen’s Inner Circle WhatsApp Channel

For 15 years, Tam systematized herself out of role after role, each time getting promoted when her systems eliminated entire workflows. This pattern eventually led her to founding the partnerships team at RAMP, a multi-billion dollar startup, where she was making over $200K. But success trapped her in strategy meetings instead of the systems work she loved.

Now Tam helps business owners escape the same busywork patterns that nearly suffocated her. She identifies exactly where brilliant people are drowning in repetitive work, then builds AI automations to eliminate it permanently.

Her three-layer AI integration approach combines technical tools (Claude, MCP, Make.com, n8n) with business strategy to create lasting solutions. Recently, she built an automated onboarding flow for a consultancy owner that reduced client setup from 2 hours to 10 minutes—saving 108+ hours annually and thousands in opportunity cost.

Tam shares step-by-step Loom walkthroughs of the exact AI workflows she’s testing and implementing. Not productivity theory—practical automations using real tools that readers can deploy immediately.

Because you didn’t build a business to spend your life copying data between spreadsheets. You have bigger problems to solve.

Read Tam’s full story »

When It Starts

Zain, Max, and Tam will start posting next week, the week of October 6.

Why Join Now

I recommend joining the groups now, because with the way WhatsApp works, you only get posts from after the date you joined. So, you’ll miss all of the previous nuggets.

How To Get Access

Step #1: Become a basic paid member (if you aren’t already)

You get access to the group by investing $20/month or $149 per year.

In addition to the group access, you also get $2,500+ in other perks. This includes:

  • 7 AI courses

  • Three books from Jay Abraham

  • Two mental model manuals

  • Dozens of premium prompts

  • My entire library of 200+ video lessons and blockbuster articles

  • Much more

If you’re already a paid subscriber, then go to step #2 & #3 to join the WhatsApp groups right now…

Step #2: Download the WhatsApp Mobile And Desktop App (if you haven’t already)

A. Mobile

  • Android

  • iOS

B. Desktop

Step #3: Click on the links below to join the groups

Only paid members will be able to see the links.

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