BUILDING GREAT EXPERIENCES

A weekly newsletter on building great experiences with AI from Drew Burdick, founder of StealthX.

Getting people to use AI.

How to create a strong gravitational pull so your team ACTUALLY uses AI tools, with carrots not sticks.

Skip the DVD & go straight to streaming

Many folks think building software in the AI era is like moving from VHS to DVD's. In reality we went straight to streaming and skipped the DVD.

Do the next right thing

When everything you think is certain falls away, what's left is simpler than you expect.

Gryffin Wilder 💔

Before I get back to the regular rhythm, I need to share something.

Every leader I talk to is stuck at this AI wall..

Every conversation I have with leaders has revealed the same wall with AI. It's not budget, it's not people's abilities, and it's not that the tech isn't good enough.

This week 10 founders shipped in a single day

What happened when we gave early-stage startups a clear strategy framework, 19 Claude Code skills, and one day to ship.

The design process is dying.

But design matters more than ever.

AI is killing the power user

Your software doesn't need 50 knobs and controls. It needs to understand what you're asking for.

This week I was asked something every org should be asking..

When code is cheap, the question isn't who builds it. It's... who owns it.

We won best AI team (& what we learned) 🎉

Here's what we figured out along the way to becoming the best AI consulting team in Charlotte.

I tested 5 AI workflows this month. Here's what actually worked.

Only 2 were worth keeping. Here's what I learned about AI workflow automation that actually sticks.

Bets > roadmaps

Stop planning like you know what will work. 12-month roadmaps don't work in the age of AI. Focus on 6-week bets.

Build your team an Iron Man suit..

Your job as a leader isn't to turn everyone into prompt engineers. It's to build systems that let people do their actual jobs better, faster, and with capabilities they didn't have before.

I have 10 AI employees. Here's how I hired them.

I set up a system of AI employees to help me run StealthX on easy mode with Claude Code. Here's how you can do it too.

My Claude Code epiphany

It felt unapproachable, until I forced myself to sit down. Now it's running all the back office admin stuff for me.

5 questions to ask while you're building..

Execution is super easy now, but commercialization is HARD. This week we dive into 5 important questions to ask yourself to build things that actually make you money.

AI is blowing up education (is it a good thing?)

How to prepare your team (and your kids) for the crazy AI future we find ourselves in.

I built you 2 tools to crush January

I spent time over the holidays building tools to help leaders like you hit the ground running with AI in January.

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