For business owners doing 6, 7 and 8 figures who have already tried AI
True North Strategies

Your competitor opens the same Claude you do.

Same model. Same twenty dollars a month. So why does theirs come back with work worth paying for, and yours comes back with paragraphs?

Thursday, October 1

12pm PT  ·  1pm MT  ·  2pm CT  ·  3pm ET

There is one variable left. It is the one nobody is selling you.

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Date
Thu, Oct 1
Time
12pm PT / 3pm ET
Length
60 minutes
Replay
48 hours

What this looked like inside our own business

27 to 6team cut to recover the profit
40 to 15hours a week back
50+skills built and in use

You already know this feeling

You have AI running somewhere in your business right now. Has a single hour actually come back to you?

Not saved on paper. Actually back, in your calendar, this week.

Keep going. The reason is not what you think.

If you have downloaded somebody’s AI agent, bought the prompt pack, or watched a tutorial and thought that is never going to work in my business, this is the hour that explains why.

And if you have not really started yet, this is the hour that saves you the eighteen months most people spend finding out the hard way.

Save my seat for free

Why I care about this one

I built my business to 27 employees. I cut it back to 6 to survive it.

I did what I was told to do. Hire ahead of the growth. Build the team. Scale fast. Revenue went up and profit went down, and every problem still landed on my desk.

When I rebuilt, I did it with AI holding the middle instead of more people holding it. That part worked. But the first year of trying was not impressive. I collected prompts. I copied other people’s setups. Almost none of it was still running a month later.

Nothing I had downloaded was bad. It just had somebody else’s business baked into it.

Show me how I rebuilt it

What I was told to build

27 people

Profit shrinking. Everything still routed through me.

What I run now

6 people, and a crew holding the middle

Same business. More profit. Mornings back.

Everyone is selling you the tool.
Nobody is selling you the layer underneath it.

  1. The template gold rush

    One workflow library alone is past 9,300 community templates. Oracle, Microsoft and Kore.ai have all opened agent marketplaces. Every coach in your feed is selling you theirs.

  2. The fine print they wrote themselves

    Microsoft’s own documentation says templates are starting points rather than plug and play, and need configuring to your systems, your data and your rules. It is public. Nobody read it back to you.

  3. What happens next

    MIT looked at 300 deployments. The ones that failed leaned on generic tools, slick enough for a demo and brittle in a real workflow.

0%

of AI pilots produced no measurable profit impact at all.

The 5% that worked embedded into real workflows, with memory and learning loops. Same models. Same subscriptions. Same week of access.

MIT · The GenAI Divide, State of AI in Business

Show me what the 5% do

What we do on October 1

Three things in sixty minutes.

And the third one is yours to keep whether or not you ever buy anything from us.

  1. Why everyone’s AI gives everyone the same answers

    Including what MIT found inside the 5% that actually worked, so that you can stop paying for tools that only ever demo well.

  2. What the foundation underneath is made of

    The industry spent a year arriving at this and gave it a name, so that you can build one thing once and carry it across every tool you will ever use.

  3. Which piece to build first

    Two questions, one drawing, about eight minutes, so that you can run your own list through it the same night and know exactly where to start.

Here is a piece of it now

There are only two boxes.

Almost insultingly simple, which is exactly why it took most people two years and a lot of money to get to it.

Identical for everyone

The tool

Claude, ChatGPT, whatever comes next. Public, rented, replaceable on a Tuesday. Your competitor has the same one.

Yours alone

The foundation

What it knows about your business, your clients, your voice, your standards. Built once. Carries across every tool you will ever use, including the ones that do not exist yet.

Everything anyone is selling you sits in the tool. Every result you have ever been impressed by came out of the foundation.

Anyone can copy the tool. Nobody can copy the hours you put into teaching it.

Show me how to build one

Speaking of that third thing

Most people automate the loudest thing. It is almost never the right thing.

The annoying task is loud, so it gets picked first. But loud and valuable are two different axes, and the thing worth building usually sits somewhere quieter.

Two questions place any task on this grid

How often does it happen?Rarely
 Constantly
Does it come back to you?Yes
Just do it

Building it costs more than the task ever will.

Build this first

Every hour here comes back this month, and it keeps coming back.

 No
Ignore it

This is where good businesses lose six weeks.

Not yet

Your team already has this handled. Worth doing later.

The loud task is usually bottom left. The hours are almost always top right.

You get this drawing on the day, plus the two questions that place anything on it in about ten seconds. Run your own list through it that night. It is yours regardless of what you decide afterwards.

We would rather you leave with one thing you use than ten things you write down.

Send me the two questions

Already built, already running

This is not theory.

90 min to 3

same report, same day

A functional medicine clinic

Their report of findings took an hour and a half to build, every single time. Rebuilt as a click and voice-to-text dashboard, it now takes about three minutes. The daily schedule prep went the same way, and is finished by 8:30 before anyone arrives.

260

clients, one brain

An accounting firm

Sixteen years of client history lived in one founder's head and a CRM nobody else could read. We turned it into a knowledge base her team can actually work from, then mapped what could come off her plate first.

Handed off

and the team kept it

A podcast production company

She built her first process map from one prompt, handed the job to her team, and it stuck. Her words on their reaction: everybody's like, oh, that's great, they love them. Then she did it again for the next task.

Pre-close

If you are still reading, you are probably serious. So here is exactly what it is.

Sixty minutes, live on Zoom, Thursday, October 1. Brooke and Tricia both on. At one point we put the same prompt into a blank Claude and into a real crew member with its foundation behind it, both on screen at once, so you can see the gap instead of taking our word for it.

  • Free, and genuinely live. Not a replay pretending to be live.
  • Replay for 48 hours if you cannot be there.
  • Bring a team member. They will get more from it than your summary afterwards.
  • Yes, there is something for sale at the end. A $47 bootcamp ticket. We are telling you now so you can stop wondering and actually listen.

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Free. Sixty minutes. Replay for 48 hours.

We send you the link and two reminders. Nothing else, and you can leave any time.

Who is teaching

Two people who have run this from both sides.

Brooke Elder

Brooke Elder

Systems, operations and AI implementation

Built to 27 employees, cut back to 6 to recover the profit, and rebuilt with an AI crew holding the middle. Former first grade teacher, which is why none of this gets explained in a way that makes you feel stupid.

Tricia

Tricia

Leadership, identity and alignment

Organisational psychologist and neurocoach. Burned out chasing more, then reset by moving a family of seven into a 300 square foot trailer for three years. She handles the half of this that is not about tools at all.

Before you decide

The things people actually ask

Is this going to be an hour of pitch?

No. There is one offer and it lives in the last six minutes, and we name it at the start so you are not sitting there bracing for it. The rest is teaching. To be straight with you about why we give the hour away: people who understand this idea tend to become clients eventually, and people who do not, do not. What we will not do is tease you for an hour and then charge you for the answer. The two questions in part three are the real thing, and you can walk away and use them and never speak to us again.

I cannot make it live. Worth registering?

Yes. The replay goes to everyone who registers and stays up for 48 hours. Register and watch on your own schedule.

Is the AI part going to be over my head?

No, and this is the one we hear most. No code, nothing to install. If you can write a job description for a new hire, you can follow every minute of it.

My business is not a coaching business. Does it apply?

It applies anywhere work repeats and you are the one who knows what good looks like. Service, product, bricks and mortar. What it does not fit is a solo operator with no team and no intention of building one.

What do I actually walk away with?

A clear picture of why your AI has not paid off yet, a drawing you will keep using, and the two question sorting tool for deciding what to build first.

Can I bring someone from my team?

Please do. Register them separately so they get their own link and replay. The people who get the most out of this watch it with whoever would actually build the thing.

Thursday, October 1 · 12pm PT / 3pm ET

Know exactly what to build first.

Sixty minutes, free, on October 1. You leave with the two questions, the drawing, and a clear answer for your own business.

And if you do nothing? Next October you are still opening the same blank chat your competitor is, still explaining your business from scratch, still deciding whether any of it was worth it. That is not a dramatic outcome. It is just the one that happens by default.

Save your seat

Free. Sixty minutes. Replay for 48 hours if you cannot make it live.

We send you the link and two reminders. Nothing else, and you can leave any time.

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