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

I built this presentation (PW: stealthxclaude26) while walking my dogs on Thursday morning.

Not an exaggeration.. I captured what was in my head as a voice note while the dogs were doing their thing, sat down at the dining room table with coffee while my kids ate breakfast, and had Claude build the whole deck. By the time I finished my coffee, it was done.

That's not a flex, that's the point. The world has changed, and most people haven't caught up yet.

I run 5-10 terminal windows on my computer right now. Each one is an AI employee with a specific job: marketing/content, ops/project management, engineering, finance, sales. They're all working, all the time.

This is the system I shared at our Claude Code for Operators session this week. I'm going to give you the whole thing.

Most people use AI like a search engine. Type a question, get an answer, move on. That's task thinking. The unlock is role thinking. Each terminal on my computer isn't just a chat window.. it's an employee with a job description.

I've got one terminal that handles all my marketing work. Another one does ops. A third manages my project coordination. When I type something into the finance terminal, that Claude knows it's the finance Claude. It has context about our accounting/finance, invoices, and cash flow. It thinks like a CFO because I gave it a CFO's job.

Here's how real this gets. Earlier this week I accidentally typed a prompt into the wrong terminal. Claude responded with, "I'm pretty confident you're talking in the wrong Terminal window right now." 😅

I laughed, but then I thought about it. My AI employee knew it wasn't its job. That's role clarity, that's specialization, that's what most people miss.

Every morning I type one word: Start.

That command triggers Claude to analyze my email, calendar, Slack, Notion, Google Drive, and all my meeting transcripts. It synthesizes everything and tells me what I need to focus on right now.

I sit down, type Start, look at the output, and say "yep, go work on that." Then I open another terminal and say "go work on this." Within minutes I have multiple AI employees executing tasks while I drink my coffee.

That's why you end up with 10 terminal windows.. because you have all these tasks running. Drafting emails, scheduling stuff, preparing for meetings, analyzing data. It's like having a squad that never sleeps.

I want to start something called Charlotte Startup House. I posted about it on LinkedIn last weekend and got a lot of interest. I realized I needed a quick website to do some validation testing, so I charged Claude with analyzing and making a one-page website. I brain dumped into a voice note with “Here's what I'm thinking, here's what I want to do" and 15-minutes later I had a complete site. Deployed it, shipped it, people started signing up (check it out above).

I went from idea to execution in 15 minutes. That's the gap Claude Code (and other tools like it) creates.

Here's another one. We’ve been working on a joint service offering with a partner agency. I’ve got dozens of documents in a Google Drive folder that has project history, proposals, deliverables, notes, etc. I told Claude to analyze the entire folder, look at both our websites, and create a plan to build a co-branded microsite showcasing the joint offer.

It made a plan, I reviewed it, said "go," and it built the thing. I pulled it up 15 minutes later and It was 95% right. With a few more prompts it was 100% ready.

I'll be honest, It took me a while to even touch Claude Code because it felt intimidating. You look at the terminal and think, "this is the Matrix, this is for engineers, this isn't for me."

I get it. But here's the truth: if you push through that initial discomfort, this is the thing that creates a massive gap between teams who use it and teams who don't.

Because Claude Code can access your files, connect to your tools, and actually do work.. not just talk about work. That's different from ChatGPT or any web-based tool. It's not a chat window, it's an operating system for your team/business.

The teams that figure this out first, will crush over the next 6-12 months.

The system runs on 5 core building blocks:

One of our team members asked about my dashboard, here's the story.

I was staring at the "eye bleeding matrix view" of the terminal and thought, "there has to be a better way." So I told Claude: "Analyze the files and context I’ve given you access to and create a detailed plan for a dashboard to help me run my company and my life."

Now I have a CEO dashboard that shows tasks, meetings, clients, ideas, finances.. everything in one visual interface. Claude does all the analysis in the background and structures it into markdown files. The dashboard just renders that data in a way that doesn't hurt my eyes.

I mostly look at the dashboard for the summary view. When I want to take action, I go back to terminal. Best of both worlds.

I now have 10 AI employees (and quickly growing). I hired them by giving them job descriptions, context, and specialized skills. They work around the clock, they don't forget things, and they cost a fraction of what real employees would cost.

This isn't about replacing people, it's about extending what one person (me) can do. I'm a founder running a company with the operational capacity of a much larger team because I figured out how to hire AI.

The system is all in the deck: decks.stealthx.co/claude-for-operators (PW: stealthxclaude26)

The gap is forming, get on the right side of it.

Onward & upward,
Drew

P.s. If we haven’t met yet, hello! I’m Drew Burdick, Founder and Managing Partner at StealthX. We work with brands to design & build great customer experiences that win. I share ideas weekly through this newsletter & over on the Building Great Experiences podcast. Have a question? Feel free to contact us, I’d love to hear from you.