The meeting was a fast-paced ideation session between Nick and another participant, focused on current AI applications, business opportunities, and automation concepts.
Key topics included AI-powered pitch deck automation, community-driven AI use case sharing, personality-based recruiting through quizzes, and new research/lead magnet strategies using Perplexity Labs.
Participants reviewed emerging approaches to prompt engineering, leveraging AI for business development, and discussed practical use cases for digital agencies and consultants.
No formal decisions were made, but several actionable ideas and growth opportunities were captured for further exploration.
Action Items
Owner unspecified: Test and document the Reddit-derived advanced prompt engineering process for LLMs.
Owner unspecified: Prototype the "How Do You Use AI?" website with submission gating and weekly newsletter feature.
Owner unspecified: Experiment with Nick Manis's API for automating the creation of SEC filing-based pitch decks.
Owner unspecified: Test the "reverse pitch deck" automation for redesigning SlideShare presentations and reaching out to original creators.
Owner unspecified: Build an internal personality/culture-fit quiz for recruiting, potentially as a lead magnet or white-label HR tool.
Owner unspecified: Use Perplexity Labs to generate niche industry reports for lead generation and outreach to B2B prospects.
AI Use Case Sharing Platform & Newsletter
Idea to create a website ("howdoyouuseai.com") where users must submit their own AI use case before accessing others.
Features include upvoting, a top-use-case weekly email newsletter, and email capture for lead generation.
Participants noted this could drive high engagement and serve as an ongoing idea exchange for AI adoption.
Personality-Based Recruiting & Culture Quizzes
Discussed coupling personality quizzes with job boards or company-specific recruiting tools.
AI-generated quizzes could match job seekers and employers on values, personality, and culture fit rather than only hard skills.
Suggested as a differentiator for companies or as a white-label tool for HR departments, with newsletter/lead magnet potential.
Example interview questions to gauge candidate fit were shared.
AI-Driven Pitch Deck Automation
Reviewed pitch deck industry workflows: scraping SEC filings, generating timely pitch decks with AI, and cold outreach to new fund creators.
Manis API can automate deck creation; business model could include watermark teaser decks and pay-to-unlock.
Explored related ideas: auto-redesigning SlideShare decks for creators, and targeting educators on Teachers Pay Teachers with pitch decks as upsells.
Prompt Engineering Best Practices
Shared a Reddit method for LLM prompt engineering: give 5 examples, ask LLM to reverse-engineer the prompt, then use LLM to evaluate/improve it iteratively.
Noted this dramatically improves output quality and is useful for content creation, ideation, and business process automation.
Emphasized the value of asking LLMs to generate "prompts that would create these outputs."
Perplexity Labs for Automated Research & Lead Magnets
Perplexity Labs can synthesize multimedia, interactive charts, and detailed research from open web data.
Its outputs (industry reports, market analyses) were highlighted as valuable lead magnets, especially for agencies and B2B consultants.
Use case: generate bespoke reports for narrow industries (e.g., HVAC suppliers), deliver them as valuable cold outreach, and track engagement for sales follow-up.
Noted as an alternative to costly market intelligence tools like IBIS World.
Decisions
No formal decisions were made; session focused on brainstorming, sharing frameworks, and identifying business opportunities.
Open Questions / Follow-Ups
Who will own prototyping for the new website and quiz tools discussed?
What technical resources are needed to test automation with Manis API or Perplexity Labs outputs?
How can the community-sharing and personality-test models be monetized or scaled for commercial use?
What are the privacy/data implications for using third-party AI tools to generate and distribute proprietary business information?