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Contrarian Thinking

We Built an AI Codie

June 19, 2025
10 min read

Everyone’s either excited about AI or thinks it’ll steal their job.

I used to be on the fence.

Then I hired a full-time employee just to integrate AI into everything we do.

His name’s Chadwick:

The dude is half-human, half-android.

His only job:

Find every unfair advantage AI gives us… and leverage the hell out of it.

We’re biased, but he’s building a free tool that might eventually become the #1 AI in the world for business buyers and builders.

We’ll tell you more about it below…

But first, here are some other tools I’m using to 2-3x my output across our business right now.

If you’re trying to buy, build, or scale… these are force multipliers:

1. Whispr Flow

I don’t type that much anymore. I talk.

Hold the Fn key, speak like a normal human, and this thing transcribes it like a Hall-of-Fame court stenographer on Adderall.

Punctuation? Flawless. Names? Capitalized. Swears? It knows the difference between “duck” and “f*ck.”

This makes me 200-300% faster at typing.

If you type with two pointer fingers like my dad… you’re no longer at a disadvantage.

2. Superhuman

My inbox is a war zone.

Inbox zero used to feel like a pipe dream… until I got Superhuman:

  • You can layer it over your existing email with shortcuts
  • You only need one letter to do everything
  • AI autocomplete fills sentences before you finish typing

What’s even crazier is that Superhuman auto-creates profiles for everyone who emails you.

I used to pay a VA thousands to find that stuff. LinkedIn, website, and Twitter, all pulled automatically.

Now it pops up like magic.

3. Perplexity Pro

Imagine Yahoo Finance had sex with your best human analyst.

  • Pull public company data instantly
  • Make financial watchlists
  • Run real-time valuation breakdowns
  • Download it all

Cost? A pie of pizza per month.

Value? A personal McKinsey bro who never sleeps.

Now, for our favorite…

You know how many times a week I get questions like this?

(That’s me using Whispr Flow, btw.)

Also, the answer is hundreds. Hundreds of times.

So eventually, we said screw it, and did what’ll probably be commonplace a few years from now:

We created an AI so you can literally text or call “me” to discuss business anytime.

We trained it on everything:

  • My book
  • My courses
  • My podcasts
  • Social posts, tweets, hot takes, rants, receipts, community Q&As

It’s tens of thousands of pages of my brainpower and expertise on buying and scaling businesses. It gives advice like I would, because it’s trained on how I think.

Try it here. Let me know what you think:

Take me to Codie.chat

Remember Chadwick, by the way?

The first version of Codie.chat sounded like I was reading a TED Talk underwater. Too polished. Too AI.

So Chadwick dug through hours of raw podcast tape, including hot mic moments, behind-the-scenes banter, and the unhinged stuff I probably told my team DO NOT PUBLISH...

Now?

You can talk to Codie.chat, and it’ll feel like we’re just vibing.

“If you have internet access and can type ten characters, you’ve got access to Codie’s mind.”

- Chadwick

AI Won’t Replace You… But Chadwick Might

After launching Codie.chat, here’s what we realized:

AI isn’t the end of human intelligence. It’s the beginning of leveraged intelligence.

This week, two headlines made that even clearer:

1. MIT dropped a wild study…

…Showing how ChatGPT might be hurting critical-thinking skills.

2. Sam Altman dropped a wild statement…

His kids will “never be smarter than AI, but they’ll grow up vastly more capable than we did.”

AI is not a human. It is a tool for humans. But what do we do with that?

Easy.

If you use AI to think for you, you’ll forget how to think.

But if you use AI to amplify your brain, to build faster?

You’ll run laps around the people who are still scared of it.

That’s why we built Codie.chat. Not to coddle you. To arm you.

And if that doesn’t work out…

Chadwick’s got a version of you in beta.

HIGH SIGNAL

The Builder’s Feed

😮 Bookmark this: If you care about what’s coming with AI, read this.

😂 Too real: When even POTUS can’t wake up your crew. #Builderlife

🎙️ Future proof your a**: More on how the guy building AI is thinking about it.

💀 Can’t explain it: Running a business feels scarier than this insane stunt.

DOPAMINE HIT

Disturbingly accurate 😂

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