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When there is something to rebuild, you get it
Code when there is code, and the prompts, tools and setup when there isn't. If something works on camera, you can run it yourself.
The series
AI in the Lab.
Real work with AI, shown rather than described.
Most AI conversations run in two registers: hype or skepticism. Neither helps you decide what to do this quarter, inside your company, with the team you actually have. The throughline here is the gap between what AI can do in a demo and what it produces inside a real business. That gap is where the decisions live.
Some of it is a build, worked start to finish. Some of it is a walkthrough of something I run every day, a short tip, a workshop, or a conversation with someone else doing the work. What holds it together is that none of it is a highlight reel, including the parts that stall.
When there is something to rebuild, you get what it takes. Code when there is code, and the prompts, tools and setup when there isn't.
Episode 2 · Latest
Build your own AI chief of staff.
23 minutes · Watch on YouTube
An AI chief of staff that plans with me, drives my week, and holds me accountable. It has run my week every day since June 2025. Most people expect an assistant that minds a calendar and an inbox. I think out loud with mine, and it thinks back.
This one is a walkthrough rather than a build. I show it working on a real day: the morning briefing it wrote before I was awake, a meeting brief with a judgment in it that nobody typed, where the memory lives in plain text, and the work it does unasked. Then I open an empty folder and set a new one up from scratch, so you can see what day one actually looks like.
Why watch
The whole thing, not the highlight reel.
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The way I actually work
The same methods I use in client work and in my own practice, applied to real work rather than a toy example.
More from the series
Host
Mark Bennett.
Founder of AdviceForge and former CEO. I ran a deep tech company for eight years and pushed AI through it from the chair, which is where the judgment comes from. AI in the Lab is me doing the work in the open, so you can judge the work rather than the claims.
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