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“Introducing Plus One: One-click OpenClaw Agents by Every” by Dan Shipper/On Every: Every’s team has spent months working alongside personal AI agents in Slack—triaging bugs, drafting marketing copy, launching growth experiments—and now we’re sharing them with subscribers. A Plus One is a hosted OpenClaw agent that shows up to the job with Every’s best tools and workflows. Read this to see how our team collaborates with their AI coworkers, and to join the waitlist.

“I Achieved the Four-hour Workweek. So Why Did I Just Take a Job?” by Mike Taylor/Also True for Humans: After five years of self-employment, Mike Taylor had passive income and total freedom. He also had unpredictable revenue, a string of failed products, and no one to share ideas with—which is why he went full-time as Every’s head of tech consulting. His argument is that while AI makes building anything easy, getting someone to notice is harder than ever, and the best learning happens inside a team. Read this if you’ve ever wondered whether the solo path is actually worth it.

“The Agent That Saved My Brain” by Austin Tedesco: Austin Tedesco, Every’s head of growth, used to lose hours toggling between Stripe, PostHog, Slack, and Notion. So he built an agent in Claude Code—even though he has no technical background—that pulls data, drafts campaign briefs, and answers his questions right in Slack. Through this, Austin’s found a worthy thought partner—though, he admits he still loses time tinkering with the system. Read this for the full build process, plus his open-source compound knowledge plugin.

🎧 🖥 “AI Makes Building Products Easy. Knowing What To Cut Is the Hard Part.” by Laura Entis/Context Window: Instagram cofounder Mike Krieger now co-leads Anthropic Labs, where his team builds experimental products on top of Claude. On this week’s podcast, he tells Every CEO Dan Shipper why even when AI has collapsed development timelines from months to hours, the hard part hasn’t changed. 🎧 🖥 Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or watch on X or YouTube.

“Build Your Own Bloomberg Terminal With AI” by Brooker Belcourt: As a hedge fund analyst, Every’s head of financial services consulting Brooker Belcourt used to spend four hours writing previews of earnings reports per company, per quarter, for 40 companies. Today, his work is greatly compressed by AI tools ranging from a ChatGPT prompt that drafts the writeups to a Claude Code setup that reads his proprietary models, cross-references them against Wall Street estimates, and assembles everything into a custom dashboard he checks each morning. Read this for a step-by-step progression toward making the most of AI for investors.