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Founder, MindRocket AI: done-for-you AI agent teams for SME. 1:1 AI coach. 20 years in business.

Frisco, TX
Joined March 2007
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Right AI for the right job: Image or flyer: ChatGPT Video you don't have time to watch: Gemini Long document, key points fast: Claude Facts with sources: Perplexity Excel, Word, Outlook: Copilot Talk it through in the car: Grok voice Whole job handed off: an agent
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You called the meeting to get answers. You left with a to-do list and no decision. 8 people, 1 hour a week is about $22K a year. My 12 AI bots don't meet. They post status to a shared tracker, and I get one brief by 9 AM. Which meeting would you cut first?
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What happens when your AI agent can pay the bills? Stripe now lets agents like ChatGPT and Claude into Stripe Treasury. They can check balances, pay invoices and move money between accounts. You wouldn't give a new hire the company card on day one. Same goes for an agent.
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How I'd roll it out: 1. Read-only. It reports balances and failed payments each morning. 2. Small payments, each waiting for your approve tap. 3. Limits. Stripe says those come in a few weeks. Until then, you approve. My rule for now: none of my bots touch money.
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My AI bots have their own HR department now. Yesterday HR software company Vensure launched a tool for small businesses to manage AI agents next to staff. Here is how it works on my bot team. This week I swapped out 3 bots for leaner ones. The new HRBP bot checks every handover, so no bot leaves with work only it knew. Onboarding: every new bot gets a Role Card in six parts. Role, owner and manager, outcomes and KPIs, what it owns, what it never does, routines and cadence. Its access-register entry lists every tool it can touch, with no secrets. Offboarding: a retiring bot hands over on one page, and its successor ticks each item it accepts. Retired bots get hidden, never deleted. Performance: a post reaches me only after its writer scores it 80+ and the HRBP passes it. Training: every miss becomes a written rule. Day one, it found my new marketing and design bots had no role card or routines, and gave each a same-day fix list. The bots run all of this. I step in for the owner calls. When you replace a bot, what do you check before switching the old one off?
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The first two drafts of this post failed my own AI grader. Here are the 10 jobs my AI team runs, grader included, with a line you can copy for each one. 9 of them start without me asking. I only step in for the calls that need an owner. If 2027 planning has you pricing another hire, bookmark this.
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How to start this week: 1. Pick one job that runs daily, like the morning brief. 2. Write down what done looks like. 3. Let it run on its own for two weeks. 4. Check only what goes out under your name. What's missing from my list? Reply with the job you'd hand off first, and I'll write you the line for it.
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