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EO Nashville · Forum 29

What Would Jared Do?

A tour of the AI stack I actually run my company on, layer by layer. Not demos, not experiments. The stuff that does real work while I sleep.

46AI built apps
25+AI robots on a timer
1AI employee
0new hires needed

My AI stack, seven layers

Every layer is AI doing a job I used to do at 11pm.

Layer 1 · the core
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Viktor, my AI employee

Not a chat window. A coworker with a Slack handle. It knows my clients, crew, pricing rules and my writing voice, and it finishes jobs instead of handing me steps. Everything else in this stack is something Viktor drives.

If your AI does not remember you, it is a toy.
Layer 2 · AI that builds
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Viktor Spaces, software on request

I describe a tool in a sentence and it exists that afternoon: crew portals, event hubs, a run of show builder, my receipt hub. Real apps with logins and data, not spreadsheets.

46 custom apps, zero developers hired.
Layer 3 · AI on a timer
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Robots that work while I sleep

Two dozen scheduled AI jobs. Receipts matched to the books. Shipments chased. Speaker decks redesigned. Scanned paper read, named and filed. I wake up to a summary, not a task list.

This is the layer that pays for the whole stack.
Layer 4 · AI for ideas and art

ChatGPT, my sketchpad

Research, thinking out loud, and concept art before anything gets built. On my phone it is the whole toolkit: turn the camera on, point it at the problem, get an answer walking to the truck.

Research anywhere. Argue in 2D before you pay for 3D.
Layer 5 · AI on my own machine

Blender + a local model

3D renders of stage designs and my paper theme park, generated on my own Mac. No cloud bill, no per image fee, runs while I do something else.

Local AI is free compute I already own.
Layer 6 · AI media
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Image, video and voice generation

Marketing visuals, animated pieces, voice over. Same day, in our brand, without a production budget or a stock site subscription.

The look of a bigger company than we are.
Layer 7 · AI inside shared files

Gemini, in client Google Sheets

When a sheet is shared with a client, I do not move it or wrap it in an app. Gemini works right inside the Sheet, so the client keeps the file they already trust and I still get AI on the data.

Meet the client in their file, not mine.

The work → the AI

Left column is my week. Middle column is which layer handles it.

The workThe AI that fixes itWhat I get back
📥 RFPs and date holdsVViktor, in SlackDates held, replies drafted, nothing sits unanswered.
💰 Quotes and costingVViktor, in SlackPriced by category, margin checked before it goes out.
🧾 Receipts and bookkeepingVViktor robot, on a timerReceipts matched to charges and attached for me.
🎬 Run of show and cue sheetsVViktor, in SlackClient agenda in, crew ready cue sheet out.
🖥️ Ugly speaker decksVViktor robot, on a timerRedesigned, I approve, speaker gets it back.
📦 Gear shipping and returnsVViktor robot, on a timerTracked and chased without me refreshing a tab.
📄 Paper, scans and contractsVViktor robot, on a timerRead, named, filed, findable later.
🗼 Tools my team asks forVViktor SpacesDescribed in a sentence, live the same afternoon.
🎨 Concept art and 3DChatGPT, then local Blender AIPitch visuals and my paper theme park command center.
🔎 Research and questions on the goChatGPT, on my phoneAnswers walking to the truck, camera pointed at the problem.
📊 Sheets I share with clientsGemini, inside the SheetAI on the data without moving the client out of their file.
👨‍👧 Family logistics and photosVViktor, in SlackKid schedules and five devices of photos, sorted.

What worked, what fought me

The honest scoreboard. This is the slide I would want to see.

What worked

  • ✔ Viktor has been my heroOne handle in Slack that knows my business and finishes the job. Everything on this page traces back to it.
  • ✔ ChatGPT for speed on my phoneFast and thorough for research, and on mobile I just turn the camera on and point it at the problem. Best tool in the room for thinking out loud.
  • ✔ Robots on a timer beat appsThe wins that stuck were the boring repeated hours, receipts and shipping, not the flashy demos.
  • ✔ Making it fun got my team to use itA paper theme park command center gets opened. A dashboard does not.
  • ✔ Going to the client's file, not mineGemini working inside a shared Google Sheet beat every version where I asked a client to log into something new.
  • ✔ It works inside tools I already hadNo migration, no new system of record, no retraining anybody.

What fought me

  • ✕ Zapier was super manual and took foreverEvery step wired by hand, and it still broke when anything changed. An AI employee I can just tell what to do replaced all of it.
  • ✕ Getting a 3D printable file was toughEvery tool got me close and none got me a clean printable file. Still the roughest road in the stack.
  • ✕ Local only AI was hardRunning a model on my own machine is cheap and private, but the small local models can only nudge things. The heavy lifting still comes from the cloud.
  • ✕ Re-modeling the same thing five timesThe cost is not the tool, it is guessing. Argue about the idea in 2D before you pay to build it in 3D.
  • ✕ Prototypes that look unfinished get useless feedbackIf it looks half built, people critique the paint instead of the plan.

How to start Monday

The order that worked for me, and the order I would give you.

Five moves, no IT project

  1. Pick your worst repeating hour. Mine was receipts. Not the flashiest, the most repeated.
  2. Hand over the whole job, not a step. If you have to check its homework, you did not delegate, you added a task.
  3. Put it where you already work. Mine lives in Slack. A tool in a separate tab is a tool you forget.
  4. Let it remember you. Voice, pricing rules, client names. That memory is what turns a chatbot into staff.
  5. Make the next thing fun. Build one delightful thing early so your team wants the second one.

What it plugs into

None of these are the stack. They are the plumbing the AI reaches into, all accounts I already had.

SlackGmailGoogle DriveGoogle CalendarGoogle SheetsGoogle SlidesQuickBooksDropboxFedExZoomVercelAirtable

Plus OptiSigns signage, LinkedIn, Vimeo, ElevenLabs and a few more. The point: no migration, no new system of record. The AI works inside the tools my business already runs on.

What it looks like when it's fun

Paper Park: every live project in my two companies as a folded paper board. Built by AI, in an afternoon.

Paper Park, a folded-paper board of every live Red Egg and Typewriter Creative project
Green dot means working, gold means it is waiting on me. My whole company in one glance, and my team actually opens it. paperpark.typewritercreative.com

Straight talk

What it really costs

  • One AI employee subscription, monthly, less than a part time contractor's week.
  • Apps and sites hosted on plans I already pay for.
  • Real cost is attention, not dollars. Batch your asks.

Where it still needs me

  • Judgment calls: pricing, hiring, telling a client no.
  • Anything needing a card, a signature, or a handshake.
  • Taste. It builds fast, I still decide what is good.

Lessons that cost me money

  • Prototypes must look finished or you get no useful feedback.
  • Argue about the idea before building the expensive version.
  • Give feedback in one batch, not a live drip.