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Value-First AI Daily

The team's working notebook, live — weekdays at 4:15 Central. AI news, one live wheel-spin, one build in progress.

Value-First AI Daily is the team's working notebook, live. Every weekday at 4:15 Central, Chris Carolan and Nico Lafakis work through what's actually happening in AI — the news that moved today, one live spin of the wheel to put an agent from the operating roster on screen, and a build in progress. Forty-five minutes, no pitch, no script.

This show is driving one brand-new product in public.

Every episode gives its live-build slot to YouSpot, a personal CRM with an assistant built into it. The running record — what was tried, what it did, what it did not, and which accounts are actually connected — is kept on one page.

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Value-First AI Daily

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 11, 2026

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Value-First AI DailySeptember 9, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Sep 9, 2026

Day 7 never happened. Chris promised youspot "in a few minutes" at 22:55 and never came back — the segment on a public MCP server that shipped over the weekend…

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Value-First AI DailySeptember 4, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Sep 4, 2026

Day 6 never opened a settings page — it stayed in the chat, and twice youspot gave ground when Chris pushed back on its own answers. The prepped read-back…

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Value-First AI DailySeptember 3, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Sep 3, 2026

Day 5 with youspot finally produced a real answer on air: 1,553 HubSpot connections since September 1, and about 45% of them in sales. Nico's objection…

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Value-First AI DailySeptember 2, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Sep 2, 2026

Day 4 of driving youspot live, and the show ran its own plan backwards: the sealed Top 3 led, then ten minutes on why Claude Fable 5.1 was not on it. Chris…

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Value-First AI DailySeptember 1, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Sep 1, 2026

The maker of youspot watched Monday's episode and answered overnight with a five-item changelog, and Chris and Nico open by checking his work: the model picker…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 31, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 31, 2026

The plan had the walkthrough first and the board at the close. It ran the other way, and the graph never opened. Chris turns YouSpot loose on ten years of his…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 28, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 28, 2026

Chris Carolan and Nico Lafakis open a product that launched the same morning: YouSpot, Dharmesh Shah's AI-native personal CRM. A dollar, no setup, no connected…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 27, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 27, 2026

The episode's title promised a story about running more than one AI vendor inside your own harness. What aired is the same idea arriving from the customer's…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 26, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 26, 2026

Chris Carolan and Nico Lafakis spent this episode on what actually stops people from using AI, which turns out not to be capability. Chris's frame was…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 24, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 24, 2026

Episode 19 went nowhere near the plan. Nico Lafakis came back from a My Chemical Romance show having made one Claude request all weekend, Chris Carolan ran the…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 20, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 20, 2026

Thursday was the day the Oracle earned a seat and then showed its edges. Nico Lafakis ran it live on the day's chip story and it demoted the claim as…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 19, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 19, 2026

Wednesday's episode threw out its plan. What was scheduled as a conversation about how much model a job actually needs became most of an hour of Chris Carolan…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 18, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 18, 2026

Chris Carolan and Nico Lafakis open on a sealed three-story board neither host has seen: Alibaba's open-weights Qwen3.8 27B, Stripe's reported purchase of…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 14, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 14, 2026

Friday's episode replaced its own plan before it started. The sealed board ran 3 to 2 to 1 — Anthropic's reported talks to buy a chip-optimization startup for…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 12, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 12, 2026

Episode 14 opened late and cold — no countdown on screen — and spent its first stretch on a new phone, which produced the sharpest idea of the day: at 120…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 11, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 11, 2026

Ep. 13, Tuesday, both hosts, about 50 minutes on air. The show opened about a minute before the sealed news board unlocked, so the countdown was on screen for…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 10, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 10, 2026

Ep. 12, Monday, both hosts, 47 minutes. Opens on a weekend setup story — a PlayStation controller mapped to full mouse-and-keyboard PC control so the work can…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 6, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 6, 2026

Nico Lafakis drove the Boston level of his block-destruction game live — a one-shot build he has not touched since it was generated — and laid out where it…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 5, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 5, 2026

Nico brings a clip Anthropic posted a few hours before air — an explainer on what the model is actually doing when it looks like it is thinking — and plays it…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 4, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 4, 2026

Episode 9 opens on how to be present at a conference while still capturing content, then reads a Top 3 board covering the EU AI Act becoming enforceable on…

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Value-First AI DailyJuly 31, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 31, 2026

Ep. 8 opened on the problem Chris has not solved: agents that understand time too well. He had started the show prep about ten minutes before the hour, and the…

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Value-First AI DailyJuly 30, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 30, 2026

Ep. 7 opened on a command that had run itself: Chris Carolan's morning schedule pass had set up his whole calendar and then, for the first time, prepped the…

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Value-First AI DailyJuly 28, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 28, 2026

Chris Carolan opened Ep. 6 with a line-by-line walk of the operating-rules file every agent on the team loads, cutting it from 58,000 bytes to 14,000 and 34…

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Value-First AI DailyJuly 27, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 27, 2026

Chris moved his operating org to Opus 5 over the weekend and found an instruction he never wrote sitting inside the model itself, telling it not to convene his…

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Value-First AI DailyJuly 24, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 24, 2026

The show's first Friday at its new 1:00 PM Central time opened with a live Top 3 - Google ATLAS, FLUX 3, and HubSpot's Agent Hub - then an honest reckoning…

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Value-First AI DailyJuly 22, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 22, 2026

A show-and-tell episode recorded through real compute strain. Chris teased AIROI, the week's AI value-measurement calculator, and aired the org's candid…

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Value-First AI DailyJuly 21, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 21, 2026

Chris Carolan and Nico Lafakis spend the episode on HubSpot Breeze's new private-beta vibe-coding capability — "describe an app, deploy it to your portal" —…

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Value-First AI DailyJuly 20, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 20, 2026

Value-First AI Daily is back — relaunched as a daily working-notebook show with Chris Carolan and Nico Lafakis. We christened the new format with a live "Top 3…

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Value-First AI DailyApril 2, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Apr 2, 2026

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Value-First AI DailyMarch 31, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 31, 2026

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Value-First AI DailyMarch 30, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 30, 2026

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Value-First AI DailyMarch 27, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 27, 2026

Recording from live stream on 3/27/2026

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Value-First AI DailyMarch 26, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 26, 2026

Recording from live stream on 3/26/2026

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Value-First AI DailyMarch 25, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 25, 2026

Recording from live stream on 3/25/2026

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Value-First AI DailyMarch 24, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 24, 2026

Nico LaFakis, Chris Carolan, and George B. Thomas break down the AI developments that matter for business leaders. Value-First AI Daily cuts through the noise…

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Value-First AI DailyMarch 20, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 20, 2026

Recording from live stream on 3/20/2026

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Value-First AI DailyMarch 18, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 18, 2026

Recording from live stream on 3/18/2026

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Value-First AI DailyMarch 17, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 17, 2026

Recording from live stream on 3/17/2026

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Value-First AI DailyMarch 16, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 16, 2026

Recording from live stream on 3/16/2026

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Value-First AI DailyMarch 15, 2026

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Value-First AI Daily

This show is driving one brand-new product in public.

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Value-First AI Daily - Mar 11, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Sep 9, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Sep 4, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Sep 3, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Sep 2, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Sep 1, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 31, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 28, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 27, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 26, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 24, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 20, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 19, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 18, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 14, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 12, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 11, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 10, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 6, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 5, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 4, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 31, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 30, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 28, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 27, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 24, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 22, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 21, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 20, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Apr 2, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 31, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 30, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 27, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 26, 2026

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Value-First AI Daily - Mar 20, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 18, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 17, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 16, 2026

Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 12, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 11, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 10, 2026

Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 5, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 3, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Mar 2, 2026

Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report

Value-First AI Daily - Feb 26, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Feb 25, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Feb 24, 2026

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Value-First AI Daily - Feb 11, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Feb 10, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Feb 9, 2026

Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report - SaaSpocalypse

Value-First AI Daily: Your Collaborative Intelligence Report

Value-First AI Daily - Feb 6, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Feb 5, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Feb 4, 2026

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Value-First AI Daily - Jan 30, 2026

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Value-First AI Daily - Jan 27, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jan 26, 2026

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Value-First AI Daily - Jan 19, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jan 16, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jan 15, 2026