What AI Workflows Are You Sleeping On?: DEAR BEN

Andrew Warner asked: "Every time I talk to a founder, I hear about some AI workflow I never would have thought to try. What are the non-obvious ones you're seeing?"

Most people use AI to make stuff. The overlooked category: using AI to mirror things back to you. Scoring. Flagging. Routing. That's where the leverage is hiding.

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SHOW NOTES

The Make vs Mirror Matrix: you're probably doing Make — but Mirror is where the blind spots live
Jeff Brewer gets rated on clarity, decisiveness, and interruptions after every single meeting
Dan Shipper built a system that flags when he's avoiding confrontation
Wade Foster (Zapier CEO) scores team meetings against Five Dysfunctions and sends individual feedback
Pete Sena's mega prompt analyzed 13 years of my notes and surfaced patterns I'd forgotten
Chris Brownridge routes meeting actions to Linear/calendar automatically via Claude agent
One meeting. One mirror workflow. Ship it. Stack from there.

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TOOLS MENTIONED

Motion AI Exec Coach (meeting scoring)
Granola (local-first meeting notes)
Zapier (automation)
Fireflies (meeting transcription)
Claude Desktop / Claude Code (local file analysis)
Linear (task routing)

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