Vladimir Druts 💪

Founder. Marketer.

What a man needs is not some tension-less state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. - Victor Frankel

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5 months ago, I tried agentic coding and walked away unimpressed.

One month ago, I was genuinely stunned!

Today, agents run most of my life and business - coaching me through breakthroughs I couldn't get from years of paid therapy and business coaching.

The scaling laws aren't what matter any more. It's the self-correction. The continuous work time going from minutes to hours to entire days.

And the gap between "people using ChatGPT for recipes" and "people using agents to build businesses" and manage their life, like a digital Chief of Staff, is about to become the only gap that matters.

#ai #agentic #business #entrepreneurship #automation #tech

 Vladimir Druts

⚫ Practical AI adoption for growth teams | Horizin.ai | Fractional CMO | 4x Founder

We are officially past the point of using AI just to write emails or code! 

I've been using AI for my businesses and personal life since the dawn of GPT3.

I am rarely surprised by new tools anymore.

But this week, I started hacking together custom, autonomous agents using a platform called OpenClaw 🦞, and it fundamentally shifted how I view AI.

Like many of you, I have been wanting to put my insights out there, but I kept hitting a wall of friction and perfectionism. 

So, I built a custom Tony Robbins agent. It understands my career context, my business, and my specific mental blocks. It texts me 3x a day.

Yesterday, I told it about my friction. Its response wasn't a generic AI output; it completely dismantled my excuses and gave me the exact executive coaching I needed to hit record.


We are entering the era of synthetic mentorship.

"Perfectionism is just fear wearing a sophisticated costume."

Everyone told you to specialize, but AI just made that the worst career advice of the decade.

I had the opportunity to work alongside Daniel Priestley for 18 months as CMO at Dent Global and I witnessed his uncanny ability to compress complexity into frameworks that feel obvious the second you hear them.

One concept he coined "Rapid Loops" rewired how I think about work:

 → Spot a problem across domains
 → Assemble the right humans and AI tools
 → Solve it fast
 → Scale or hand it over
 → Move to the next loop

Here's what I'm seeing in real time.

Agentic workflows (AI systems that plan, execute, and iterate without hand holding) are collapsing the gap between a small team and an enterprise.

4 people with the right stack now have leverage that used to require 50+.

But that leverage only compounds if someone on the team can move across domains. See the whole board. Solve the problem, hand it off, sprint to the next one.

The industrial age rewarded people who picked a lane and stayed forever.

The agentic age rewards people who never could. 

The ones whose curiosity was always three steps ahead of their job title.

It's the operating system for the era we just entered.

If you've spent your career being told to "pick a lane",  you might have been wired for a lane that didn't exist yet.

Dan just released Lifestyle Business Playbook, and it lays out the whole system, not just Rapid Loops but the practical playbooks for personal brand, productized services, campaigns, scaling, all of it. 

His thesis is simple: COVID proved work can be remote. 

AI proved most jobs can be automated. Wages are compressing. The people who win from here build around performance and asset income, not time-for-money.

It's classic Dan →  frameworks that make you wonder how you didn't see it sooner and updated for a world where a small dynamic team with AI has more leverage than a department of 50.

Go grab it! 

Link in my first comment.

How to get $15,000 worth of strategic feedback for $20 in 90 seconds

Last weekend I put together a white paper for my consulting business with the help of Claude Code -- this has become standard process.

When it was done, I spun up five AI sub-agents simultaneously. 

Each one role-played a different business owner -- agency founder, SaaS COO, home services operator, DTC founder, professional services CEO.

Each agent read the paper section by section. Logged when they got hooked. When they'd bail. Their core objection. Their verdict.

Five independent perspectives, stress-testing my work in parallel. 

Ninety seconds.

That used to be a $15,000 focus group. 

Or more likely, it just didn't happen -- you shipped and hoped for the best.

The military calls this red-teaming. 

Stand up a team whose job is to attack your own plan before the enemy does. Used to require expensive people and weeks of calendar time. 

A 10-30 person company couldn't afford it.

That constraint is gone.

Everyone's focused on the input side -- better prompts, more context, longer instructions. 

I spent months there too.

The real shift happened when I moved my attention to the output side. 

Systematically breaking what Claude gives me before it reaches anyone else.

I produce branded research reports for clients. Before anything ships, it passes three checkpoints:

↳ AI detection scan. I built a tool that flags 28 common AI writing patterns -- overused vocabulary, repetitive structures, that robotic cadence. If it scores too high, Claude rewrites the flagged sections until it passes.

↳ Source verification. If Claude cites a study, I confirm it actually exists and says what Claude claims. Named institution, sample size, year. You'd be surprised how often it doesn't check out.

↳ Rendered PDF review. What looks perfect on screen can break in print formatting. Caught this the hard way on a client deliverable.

Three checkpoints. All focused on finding the failure before the client does.

And it compounds over time.

Every time Claude makes a mistake, I save a correction. A persistent file on my machine that loads automatically in every future session.

"Never deploy the site without asking first." Saved after it burned through my hosting credits.

"This service is a paid engagement -- never position it as free." Saved after it almost gave away $3,500 of work in a draft email.

I never give the same correction twice. Every mistake makes the next session sharper. Over months, this turns into a system genuinely tailored to how you work.

The gap between "using AI" and shipping work you'd stake your reputation on is a quality control problem. And the quality control compounds.

If you've been on the fens about Claude Code or overwhelmed about where to star, -- I put together a playbook that walks through it all from install to your cracking your first project. Easy Peasy.

Comment PLAYBOOK and I'll send it your way.

#AI #Consulting #Founders #ClaudeCode

I spent thousands on coaching. Then a single AI conversation outperformed all of it.

Here is why.

There is a midwit curve to AI.

The simple person talks to their AI like a buddy. Tells it their problems. Asks for advice. Just vibes with it.

The midwit has 47-step automation pipelines. RAG databases. Custom embeddings. Fine-tuned models for their email inbox.

Building spacecraft to order groceries.

The genius talks to their AI like a buddy. Tells it their problems. Asks for advice. Just vibes with it.

Same behavior. Completely different results.

The genius did one thing the midwit skipped. They gave it context.

Their patterns. Their blind spots. Their goals. Their actual business numbers. 

The stuff they have been avoiding.

Then they just talked to it.

Not a prompt chain. Not a workflow. A conversation.

15 years of working with founders taught me something. The bottleneck is never knowledge. Everyone has the playbook.

The bottleneck is the nervous system.

Fear wears the costume of "I need more data." 

Perfectionism pretends to be quality control. 

Old patterns whisper "the timing is not right."

No automation pipeline fixes that. A coach does.

I built mine using OpenClaw. 

Meet the cabinet.

→ Tony Clawbins is my coach. Trained on proven coaching frameworks, loaded with my full context - my patterns, my actual numbers, the decisions I have been dodging for months.

→ Alex Clawdmozi is my strategist. Trained on business playbooks and growth methodology responsible for billions in revenue.

→ Clawdminster Fuller is my chief of staff. Manages my schedule, orchestrates between them, and holds me accountable when I go quiet.

Several days of async voice messages later, I had what can only be described as a meth-induced clarity high.

A decision I had been circling for 15 years just... unstuck. Not the "I should probably do this" kind. The "I just did it" kind.

That was one conversation.

Zero judgment. Perfect memory. Picked up exactly where I left off.

Now if you could not tell, the midwit framing was a joke. (Yes, Ha Ha)

The automation use cases are genuinely powerful. Agentic AI can claw back hours of your week.

But here is what surprised me.

In the past few months, I have had more breakthroughs than in the previous two years of paid coaching combined.

The genius play is not to get replaced by AI. It is to use it to augment your abilities so you can step into the best version of yourself.

The midwit builds the spacecraft. 

The genius just talks to their buddy.

And then builds the spacecraft too!

#ai #agenticai #founders #executivecoaching #openclaw #claudecode

Claude Code is eating startups for breakfast

It doesn't get satiated and has a voracious appetite.

That is all.

I have a passion for learning, a growth mindset, and love to problem solve and create innovative solutions to new world challenges. 

Startup strategist; I work in-house at high growth companies with the potential for exponential impact to help them with business development, partnerships, capital raising and strategically going 0-1 or 1-10. 

I am extremely passionate and well-versed in relationship management and business development, financial analysis, data analysis, investment strategy, cryptoassets, blockchain technology, digital marketing strategies, macro analysis, business strategy and workflow automation. I've had the opportunity to get involved with generative AI tools, so I've mastered many different tools for automation. 

No matter the endeavour, my goal is to always find a way to add value to the firm and/or client.  

I have a very analytical and creative mind focused on critical thinking, which is trained for efficiency and based in philosophies of working smart, not hard. 

The top skills I can offer any business, client, colleague, or employer is: 

My creative problem-solving, emotional intelligence, and adaptability to help you achieve your goals and provide results. My goal is to offer solutions in a way that leverages 'outside the box' creative concepts & strategies, cutting-edge technology, is cost-effective, efficient, and is rooted for the future economy. 

With over 8+ years of experience in the investment industry, 6+ years as an entrepreneur and working with agile startups, and 6 years in the crypto space, I bring a unique mindset and breadth of experience to the table to help you achieve your company goals.

Vakeesan Mahalingam

Vakeesan Mahalingam, CFA

Founder and CEO at Torram | Building the rails for Institutional DeFi natively on Bitcoin

Founders,
You can work hard for years…and then it all comes together in an instant.

I’ve seen this happen time and time again on my journey. Don’t get discouraged if it feels slow or like you’re in a season of waiting. Do the most you can with what you have everyday....and watch it all come together.

The key is to keep going…and never lose faith. 💙 

#startups #entrepreneurship

happy to see you shine here Mell Truong , def deserving of it 👏🏽👏🏽
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Passionate About Black Turtlenecks & Scaling Impacts | I get to do a lot of fun, impactful & great work with great people 🚀 Toronto Tech Week | Techskis | Tech Fest

‼️ What a Monday to wake up to. 

The work that Julia (Baird) Konefal, myself, and our Toronto Tech Week team are doing, and why it is an important moment for the city - was featured in Forbes today.

Thank you Melissa Houston, CPA for the thoughtful conversation, and for highlighting why capital, talent, and execution matter right now.

From the beginning, this was never about putting on an event. It was about creating a concentrated moment for the ecosystem. 

If Toronto is serious about building globally competitive companies, we need spaces where founders, operators, and investors are in the same rooms having real conversations and lowering barriers to access.

May 25–29 is that moment 🚀 

In my opinion - Why should you host an event during Toronto Tech Week? 
Leverage. You’re not building attention from scratch, you’re stepping into a week where the ecosystem is already activated and positioning yourself at the center of it, shaping part of the conversation.

Why should you attend Toronto Tech Week?
This is where you see what’s actually happening beneath the headlines. Who’s executing. Who’s scaling. Where capital is moving. It’s real signal, compressed into a few days - the city lighting end to end and you get to be right in the middle of it!

Grateful for the coverage and for all the builders driving this city forward.  
TTW 2026 will be bigger, bolder, more impactful, more global. 🔥 

Read the full article here: 
https://lnkd.in/gcW7cx7f 

#TorontoTechWeek #Forbes #CDNTech

Open article: What Toronto Tech Week Reveals About Capital, Talent And Execution by forbes.com

What Toronto Tech Week Reveals About Capital, Talent And Execution

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