Cofounder @ Morning Brew / Host @ Founder's Journal

Alex Lieberman

The most badass thing you can do when you sell your company:

Buy a $10m mansion ❌
Upgrade to a lambo ❌
$100k vacation ❌
Retire your parents ✅

Cofounder @ Morning Brew, Tenex, and storyarb

If you’re not already doing so, get involved in a non-profit or volunteer work.

It will fill a hole in your heart and soul that you didn’t know existed and work will never satisfy.

Just do it.

Introducing ultrathink.

The new AI newsletter that no one needed. 

Let me rephrase. 

There are way too many mediocre AI newsletters. And you don't need another one of those.  

You don’t need that noise.
I promise you the most actionable AI newsletter in 2 minutes.

What you’ll get (on Tuesdays):
1) tested playbooks from execs & leaders winning w/ AI
2) curated internet gold + smart commentary
3) exclusive invites to live AI events (that don’t suck)
4) verified prompts 
5) one piece of AI jargon clearly broken each week

Sign up (for free) here: https://lnkd.in/eETvk-CJ

shouldn't be a hot-take, but if you're not working to become ai-native, you're falling behind. 

lots of companies & execs are getting to phase 1 of AI adoption (read: tool use), and then stopping. 

but the biggest gains are going to happen as entire products & processes are rebuilt to be ai-first. 

the next chapter of my career is dedicated to helping people & businesses cross the chasm & here are some of the ways we're doing it: 

1) applied AI show

human-in-the-loop is our weekly AI show that breaks down proven AI workflows being used by professionals in their day-to-day. 

subscribe to the series here: https://lnkd.in/eGc2k4Mh
rsvp for tmrw's (the CEO AI agent) here: https://luma.com/69ksttfk

2) applied AI newsletter

ultrathink is a weekly newsletter that shares one tactical AI breakdown. Plus, the best tools, links, and ideas from the week. Some snark. All signal.

subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/eETvk-CJ

3) free AI audit for $10m+ companies

each month, we offer a complimentary service for 10 companies where we run an AI audit & help set your 12-month AI roadmap. 

apply here: https://lnkd.in/eUYM2S-r

4) custom AI solutions 

we gotta make money somehow. we provide AI advisory & engineering services for companies that want to become AI-native and win the next decade. 

learn more here: https://tenex.co

We are ruthless about testing & curating the ideal software stack at my AI company. 

Here is an exhaustive list I built with our team: 

Quick context: 
- We do AI engineering-as-a-service & AI transformation for midmarket enterprises. 
- Our team breakdown is 75% engineers, 10% technical strategists, 5% marketing, 5% ops, 5% management 

Daily operations: 
• HubSpot - source of truth for marketing/sales
• OpenAI - use gpt5 pro as my daily driver
• Slack - team comms 
• Notion - central knowledge hub
• Typeform - lead capture 
• Zapier - lots of Hubspot <> app connectors
• Stripe - electricity for internet money
• Mercury - my ride-or-die for banking
• Ashby - our HR recruiting platform
• Calendly - call scheduling

Marketing & content: 
• Figma - site/newsletter/software design
• Webflow - Tenex's website built on it
• beehiiv - powers our weekly newsletter
• CapCut - when I try to pretend i'm an influencer
• Riverside - tech for our applied AI show
• Luma - all-in-one calendar for our show
• HeyGen - AI avatar for social videos
• ElevenLabs - custom voice trained on me

Engineering: 
LangChain - agent framework 
GitHub - needs no explanation
Ghostty (Mitchell Hashimoto) - supercharged terminal
Vercel - cloud AI platform/UI elements
OpenAI - API + codex 
OpenRouter, Inc - model-switching
Anthropic - API + Claude Code 
GCP - all infra stuff
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - all infra stuff
Linear - less shitty Jira 
CodeRabbit - QA/PR reviewer
Cursor - AI-native IDE
PyTorch - ML framework
NVIDIA - training custom models
Raspberry Pi - running edge models 
Runway - fine-tuned models

P.S. if you're one of these companies & aren't yet a channel partner of ours, plz DM me. 

I'd love to work with you.

"We want to use AI, but we don't know where to start."

This is what I'm hearing from literally every exec & business right now.

Which is why tomorrow's digital event is attacking this challenge head on.

If you want a step-by-step process for setting your team/company's AI strategy & roadmap, you really can't miss this...

Event: How to build your AI roadmap & strategy
Details: A live demo of building an AI roadmap for a company from scratch
- Collecting data (surveys & stakeholder calls)
- Creating a comprehensive report (findings, key quotes, AI use cases, ROI)
- Building a 12-month roadmap (using Notion MCP) based on priority & ROI
When: 10/30 at 4:30pm ET

RSVP here: https://luma.com/mezc3chm

P.S. even if you can't make it, register, as we'll be sending the recording out after

Your AI code sucks because you're a little lazy.

That's okay, but if you handed a junior employee foggy, half-baked instructions — they’d screw it up too. AI’s no different.

Ryan Carson (Builder in residence at Amp) built a 3-file workflow inside Cursor that forces clarity and kills chaos.

Here’s how it works:
 – A PRD rule that writes specs even a sleep-deprived intern (or model) can follow
 – A task generator that turns fuzzy ideas into precise, check-boxable steps
 – A task-runner rule that ships one subtask at a time, waiting for your go before it moves

If that doesn’t sound sexy to you, you’re a 1x engineer.

Ryan's walking through it today at 4 PM ET on Human in the Loop.

RSVP (for free) here: https://luma.com/1u4k0o5q

This guy has racked up 300M views exclusively with AI-only commercials. 

PJ Accetturo spent 10 years making commercials the old-school way. 7-figure budgets. Massive crews. 

In May, he said f*** that.

Now, he runs an AI-native ad agency working with brands like Disney, Ramp, and Kalshi. 

PJ shared his play-by-play method for producing next-level creative from his office chair.

1) scroll-stopping idea
2) storyboard
3) pictures to videos
4) voices & sounds
5) edit & ship it

Check out the full process & use it for everything from launch videos to product demos to paid ad creative: https://lnkd.in/gTPfRmCQ

Open video: How I Create $1M Hollywood-Level Ads with AI (Full Demo) on youtu.be

How I Create $1M Hollywood-Level Ads with AI (Full Demo)

Engineering is living in the future (thx to AI).

It sounds hyperbolic, but the best engineers I know are actually 10x more productive now.

This arbitrage won't last forever, but if you have A+ fundamentals + a mastery of AI workflows, you are at a massive advantage.

So I'm bringing in one of the best AI engineering voices in the world to show you the way.

Ryan Carson is joining this week's live episode of Human in the Loop to share his battle-tested AI coding workflow.
- Founder for 25 years who's exited 3 companies
- Builder-in-Residence at AmpCode
- 155k followers on X

If you're a 1x–9x engineer, RSVP for the event (for free), to become a 10x 👇 

If you're not an engineer, find one immediately, and shake sense into them until they RSVP 👇

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