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Last year, I was working 55-hour weeks.
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This year, I'm doing the same output in
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40, and I haven't hired a single person.
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The difference is seven AI tools, and most
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of them you've never heard used the way
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I'm about to show you.
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Quick context.
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I tested over 50 AI tools in the
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last 12 months.
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Productivity apps, agents, automation platforms, the lot.
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Most of them got deleted within a week.
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The seven that stayed are the ones doing
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real work for me every single day.
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I'll tell you what each one replaced, what
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it costs, and the one task I'd never
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trusted with.
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Stick around, because tool number six is the
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one nobody talks about,
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and it's the connector that makes the other
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six worth ten times more.
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Tool number one is Clawed.
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Specifically, Clawed for anything that requires actually thinking
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with long context,
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strategy documents, contract requirements,
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and a lot of other things that require
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a lot of time and effort.
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including my own personal review, editing a 5
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,000-word draft,
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untangling the messy spreadsheet of customer feedback.
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Here's the rule I use.
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If the input is over 2,000 words,
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or the output needs to hold a coherent
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argument across multiple sections,
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I go to Clawed.
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Chad GPT is faster for short prompts.
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Clawed is better when the answer needs to
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sound like a human,
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wrote it after thinking about it for a
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while.
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The workflow I use most,
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I paste in raw notes from a meeting
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or customer call,
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and ask Clawed to find the three real
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objections hiding underneath the polite language.
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Tool two is Chat GPT,
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but specifically because of custom GPTs.
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I have 11 of them.
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Each one is a small, named assistant trained
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on a specific job.
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One I call Cold Email Doctor.
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It takes any email I'm about to send
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and rewrites it without the AI tells.
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M-dashes, hedging phrases, the word,
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or delve, gone.
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Another I call Meeting Prep.
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I paste in a calendar invite and the
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person's LinkedIn,
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and it gives me three talking points and
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one risk in under 10 seconds.
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The trick most people miss,
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don't use Chat GPT as a chat.
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Use it as a fleet of pre-configured
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tools that already know your job,
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your company,
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and your voice.
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The first time I built one took me
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20 minutes.
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The fifth time I built it took me
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10 minutes.
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Tool three is Notion with AI turned on.
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This is my second brain.
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Every meeting note, every project doc, every loose
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idea lives in Notion.
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The AI part matters because I can ask
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my own notes a question.
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Real example.
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Last month, a client asked me what I
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quoted them in March.
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I typed into Notion AI,
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what did I propose to Acme Co.
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in March and what was the scope.
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Answer in three seconds pulled from my actual
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proposal doc.
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Without AI, that's a 15-minute scavenger hunt
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through Drive.
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The honest take Notion AI as a writer
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is mediocre.
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Notion AI as a librarian for the things
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you already wrote is incredible.
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That's the use case.
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Tool four is Granola.
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It's a meeting note taker, but it does
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something different from Otter or Fireflies.
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It doesn't transcribe everything.
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It listens, and at the end of the
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call,
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it gives you a clean structured summary based
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on the notes you were typing during the
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meeting.
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Why this matters?
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A transcript of a 45-minute meeting is
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useless.
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Nobody rereads it.
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A structured summary of decisions made.
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Action items and open questions.
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That's the artifact you actually use.
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I run between four and seven calls a
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day.
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Before Granola, I lost roughly 30 minutes a
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day
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repiecing together what was decided.
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Now it's zero.
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Fast tip.
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The free tier is enough if you have
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under 25 meetings a month.
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Don't pay until you outgrow it.
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Tool five is Perplexity.
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This is what I use instead of Google
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for anything research-shaped competitor pricing,
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market sizing,
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what changed in the past,
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and what's changed in this regulation last quarter.
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That kind of thing.
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Why not just Google?
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Two reasons.
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First, Perplexity cites every claim, so I can
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verify the source in one click.
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No SEO spam blogs, no auto-generated nonsense.
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Second, the answer is structured.
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Google gives me 10 blue links and asks
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me to do the synthesis.
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Perplexity gives me the synthesis with the links
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underneath in case I want to drill in.
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My usage rule, if the question would have
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taken me five tabs to answer,
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I use Perplexity.
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If it's a single-fact lookup like
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Tool six is Make.com.
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This is the one I told you to
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wait for because it's the reason the other
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six tools are worth
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10 times more than they look.
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Make is automation software.
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It connects apps to each other, with AI
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in the middle.
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Here's the workflow that saves me the most
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time, every single week.
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When a new email comes into my inbox,
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Make grabs it, sends it to ChatGPT with
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a prompt.
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Is this a success?
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Is it a sales lead, a support issue,
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or noise?
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And based on the answer, it does one
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of three things.
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If it's a lead, it creates a Notion
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entry and slacks me.
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If it's support, it drafts a reply for
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review.
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If it's noise, it archives it.
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I never see it.
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I never decide.
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The system decides.
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Tool seven is Gamma.
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It turns a paragraph of text into a
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designed presentation, document, or web page in about
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30 seconds.
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I use it for two things.
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Internal proposals.
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A draft deck I'd have spent two hours
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formatting in Google Slides now takes 12 minutes.
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And client handoffs.
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When I need to explain a process visually,
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I prompt Gamma instead of opening Figma.
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What it's not good for?
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Pixel-perfect brand work.
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If the deliverable has to match your brand
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guidelines exactly, do it manually.
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For internal speed, Gamma is unbeatable.
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Here's the final step.
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The picture.
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Perplexity feeds me research.
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Granola feeds me meeting outcomes.
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Both go into Notion.
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Claw does the deep thinking on top of
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Notion.
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Chat GPT and its custom GPTs handle short
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repetitive tasks.
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Make.com runs the whole loop on autopilot.
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Gamma turns the output into something I can
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send to a client.
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The total cost of this stack is around
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$80 a month.
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Conservatively, it gives me back 15 hours a
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week.
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That's the math.
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If you want my exact prompts, custom GPT
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configs, and the make.com scenario I showed
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you, I'm
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putting all of that in the next video.
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Free, no email gate.
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Subscribe so you don't miss it.
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One last thing.
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The tool I almost added to this list,
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Bacut at the last second, has a real
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shot at replacing
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two of these in 2026.
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I'll tell you which one and why in
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the next video.
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See you there.
