^{AI MARKET PULSE}
Even the AI Advisers Are Getting Cut — No Role Is Safe

The firms telling the world how to cut costs with AI are now doing it to themselves. McKinsey — the consulting giant that advises Fortune 500 companies on restructuring — is cutting thousands of jobs over the next 18–24 months due to rapid advances in artificial intelligence. Teams are seeing reductions of up to 10%, with back-office and non-client roles being “rethought” through automation. Headcount has already dropped from 45,000 to 40,000. This isn’t isolated. Salesforce eliminated 4,000 customer support roles. Klarna effectively halved its workforce and replaced many functions with AI. Amazon cut tens of thousands. The Big Four are trimming staff. When the consultants advising companies on AI efficiency are being replaced by AI themselves, this stops being a warning — it becomes confirmation.

So what does that mean for you?

Job security is an illusion — leverage is not. The same forces dismantling corporate roles are creating new paths for individuals who move early:

• Package expertise into AI-powered services
• Build digital products instead of relying on payroll
• Offer consulting amplified by automation
• Create income streams you control, not employers

Waiting for certainty is how you fall behind. AI isn’t coming for jobs someday — it’s already reshaping them. Build skills that compound, deploy tools that scale, and create work that survives layoffs. The pattern is clear, and the window is open — but not for long.

👉️ Read the article here

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^{WORKFLOW BUILDER}
Competitor Intelligence System

Goal: Build an automated monitoring system that tracks competitor moves, price shifts, and market gaps to give you a continuous strategic edge.

Steps:

1. Map the Battlefield

   Identify your top 3 direct competitors and their core digital footprints.

   Prompt ChatGPT: Act as a market research expert. Identify the top 3 direct competitors for a [Your Niche] business and list their primary website URLs and social media handles.

   ➡️ Next: Save this competitor list in a dedicated Notion page or spreadsheet.

2. Extract Site Data

   Use a scraper tool to pull current pricing and service data from competitor sites.

   Prompt ChatGPT: Review the following text from a competitor’s landing page: [Paste Site Text]. Extract their current pricing tiers, core features, and primary value proposition into a clean table.

   ➡️ Next: Copy this structured data into your comparison tracking sheet.

3. Identify Content Gaps

   Analyze competitor topics to find high-traffic areas they are completely missing.

   Prompt ChatGPT: Analyze these 5 blog titles from [Competitor Name]: [List Titles]. Suggest 3 "counter-topics" that address customer needs they’ve ignored but that align with my expertise in [Your Skill].

   ➡️ Next: Add these 3 topics to your content production calendar.

4. Decode Customer Pain

   Mine competitor reviews to find exactly where their users are frustrated.

   Prompt ChatGPT: Look at these 3 negative reviews for [Competitor]: [Paste Reviews]. Summarize the top 2 recurring complaints and write a one-sentence "marketing hook" for how my business solves them better.

   ➡️ Next: Use these hooks in your next social media or ad campaign.

5. Create the Weekly Pulse

   Set up an automated routine to summarize market shifts without manual digging.

   Prompt ChatGPT: Create a weekly 15-minute checklist for a solopreneur to monitor [Competitor Names] for price changes, new product launches, and social media sentiment shifts.

   ➡️ Next: Set a recurring calendar invite to run this checklist every Monday morning.

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^{TODAY’S PROMPT}
Solve a Daily Task with Five Plug-and-Play Templates

This mega-prompt creates a plug-and-play template pack for a hyper-specific micro-niche, turning simple inputs into five ready-to-use templates for a daily task. Each template is practical, clearly labeled, and built to fit directly into existing workflows. The output is polished, immediately usable, and requires no editing before deployment.

👉 Use the prompt + check out my example output here

Clear Ask
Act as a professional systems designer and template creator. Your task is to generate five high-quality, ready-to-use templates tailored to a hyper-specific micro-niche, each designed to solve a real, daily task that user repeatedly faces.

Context & Purpose
I want to create a small but extremely valuable template pack for a clearly defined micro-niche audience. The goal is to save them time, reduce friction, and improve outcomes in a task they already perform frequently.

These templates should feel:
• Immediately useful (usable as-is)
• Practical, not theoretical
• Designed by someone who deeply understands the niche’s workflow, constraints, and language
• The final output should be polished enough to sell, share, or deploy instantly without rewriting.

Detailed Input Requirements
Before generating the templates, use the information below. If any field is unclear, make a reasonable assumption and proceed confidently.

User Inputs (fill in all placeholders):
• Micro-Niche Description:[Describe the exact niche — role + industry + situation]
• Primary Daily Task to Solve: [What recurring task or problem these users face daily]
• Template Types to Include (choose any 5):
[e.g., Email templates, DM scripts, Notion layouts, checklists, SOPs, prompts, social captions, trackers]
• Tone & Style:[e.g., professional, friendly, direct, persuasive, minimalist]
• Skill Level of User:[Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced]
Preferred Length per Template:[Short / Medium / Detailed]
Constraints or Preferences:[Any rules, platforms, tools, or limitations to respect]

Additional Instructions
Follow these rules strictly:
• Each template must solve a specific use case, not a generic problem
• Templates must be clearly labeled and include a short description of when to use them
• Use plain language — no jargon unless the niche expects it
• Include fill-in-the-blank placeholders inside templates where personalization is required
• Optimize for speed and clarity, not creativity for its own sake
• Do not explain how templates work unless absolutely necessary

Perfect Output Every Time
Deliver the final answer in the following format exactly:

Template Pack Title
(1 concise line that clearly signals value to the micro-niche)

Template 1: [Template Name]
Best Used When:
[1 sentence describing the situation]
Template:
[The full, ready-to-use template with placeholders]

Template 2: [Template Name]
Best Used When:
[1 sentence]
Template:
[Template content]

Template 3: [Template Name]
Best Used When:
[1 sentence]
Template:
[Template content]

Template 4: [Template Name]
Best Used When:
[1 sentence]
Template:
[Template content]

Template 5: [Template Name]
Best Used When:
[1 sentence]
Template:
[Template content]

Final Requirement:
All five templates must feel purpose-built for this niche, require no editing, and be useful immediately. The output should be good enough that a user could copy it, paste it into their workflow, and benefit instantly.

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^{AI SPOTLIGHT}
AI Could Make Money Irrelevant — and Work Optional

Elon Musk is arguing that AI doesn’t just disrupt jobs — it undermines the concept of money itself. As AI and robotics advance to the point where goods and services can be produced at near-zero cost, Musk believes salaries cease to matter and money fades as a system for allocating labor. In his vision, AI could eventually build homes, grow food, deliver healthcare, and educate at scale, making paid work optional rather than necessary. Other AI leaders echo the concern. Anthropic’s leadership expects most jobs to become obsolete within years, while Vinod Khosla warns that without intervention, AI-driven productivity could concentrate wealth and devalue human labor entirely. Governments, not markets alone, may decide whether this transition becomes utopian or destabilizing.

Key Takeaways:

• Musk believes AI will eliminate the need for wages and money
• Advanced robotics could make work optional within 10–20 years
• AI leaders expect widespread job obsolescence, including their own roles
• Productivity gains may not translate to leisure without policy changes
• Government action will shape whether AI leads to abundance or inequality

My Take:

This isn’t just a technology shift — it’s a coordination problem. If AI removes the need for human labor faster than systems adapt, money, work, and incentives all break at once. The opportunity isn’t waiting for utopia — it’s preparing for volatility. Individuals who build leverage, autonomy, and adaptable skills now won’t be dependent on whether governments get the transition right later.

👉️ Read the full article here

^{AI QUICK HITS}

🖼️ OpenAI has launched GPT Image 1.5, a new creative studio-style tool for ChatGPT that delivers 4x faster generation speeds and advanced editing controls for better visual consistency, directly challenging Google’s recent lead in the AI image space.

⚡️ Driven by the massive power requirements of AI models, U.S. data center capacity is expected to lag behind demand through 2028, while global energy transition spending reached a record $2.4 trillion in 2024 to support this shifting infrastructure.

💁 Google Labs has introduced CC, an experimental AI productivity agent that connects to your Google Workspace to deliver a "Your Day Ahead" briefing, summarize tasks, and proactively draft emails or calendar links for users in the U.S. and Canada.

🤔 ^{Which image is real?}

One of these images is real, and one was created with AI. Vote for which one you think is real, and tell us why you voted that way.

The last edition’s results—59% were wrong!

Did you vote in the poll from December 15th? The bottom image was real! Go back and see the photos here. So what do you think? Are you getting better at spotting AI vs. not?

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