Welcome back to Business Juice – the signal-dense, founder-focused newsletter where we test real tools, build in public, and occasionally get roasted for it.
This week’s Juice:
Why automating too early is just productivity cosplay
A cartoon AI agent that nearly broke our studio (say hi to Mr Juice)
The boldest take on AI + labour you’ll read this week
The launch of Club300 – and how to lock in lifetime access
Plus: tools, trends, tests and $10 for your thoughts
Let’s Juice.
🧠The AI agents are coming…
Entrepreneurial employees won’t wait to be replaced by AI. They’ll build the thing that replaces them – then license it back to the company they just left.
And guess what?
Labour accounts for 55% of global GDP. That’s tens of trillions in human effort, now up for grabs by anyone with agents, workflows, and a landing page.
Takeaway: Want leverage? Stop asking for it. Start coding (or prompting) it.
🛠️ Over-Automation is the New Procrastination
Automation can be like fancy dress. Cosplay for optimizers.
But seriously – if a manual workflow hasn’t burned your time, bled real value, or been repeated more than twice, it might not be ready to scale. An “automation” that takes more clicks and more time than just doing the thing is just silly.
Takeaway: Run it raw first. Sweat > Zapier
📊 TREND CHECK
Amazon data reveals that niche beats reach.
People don’t want generic productivity advice, generic tutoring, or generic journaling prompts.
They want:
ADHD productivity planners
AI tutors for kids
Journaling apps that think
Takeaway: If your product works for “everyone,” it works for no one.
WTF OF THE WEEK
We tried to animate Mr Juice with HeyGen. We failed spectacularly. But it was glorious.
We even tried to clone Mr Juice’s voice with AI. It sounded like a drunk GPS telling startup stories in a haunted house.
Still testing…
🟢 Fast voiceovers
🟢 Wild visual AI puppeteering
🔴 Still a little too ventriloquist for prime time
Use it for memes, explainer vids or Halloween pranks.
But maybe don’t pitch VCs with it… yet.
💥 Real Value Today: How to Get Out of Your Own Way (and Start Making Money)
We’ve been talking a big game about speed and execution. But the truth is we’ve been slow to ship.
That ends today.
Introducing our first product drop: the Founder Fitness Scorecard.
Think of it like a mirror with metrics. It helps you figure out why you’re not building, what’s blocking momentum, and what kind of ideas you’re most likely to succeed with.
There are two versions:
🥤 Lite – $29 (Free for subscribers)
A fast self-assessment that nails your time, capital, and what’s getting in the way.
💪 Pro – $149 (Free for Club300 Members)
Goes deeper – maps your strengths to high-likelihood business models, gives you a plan, and cuts through the noise.
This isn’t another “find your why” tool. It’s built to trigger action.
The best time to start was last year. The second-best time is right after you hit the link.
⚡️ She Built a Sales Rep That Doesn’t Sleep – In Minutes
No salary. No lunch breaks. No burnout.
Founder Noémi Kiss built herself a lead gen assistant that works 24/7 – using Lindy – and it’s already generating leads that make bank.
No code. No dev. Just natural prompts.
Here’s what she typed:
“Find me 10 engineers at Meta in SF.”
✅ Out came a spreadsheet: names, emails, LinkedIns, phone numbers.
“Filter by people who joined less than 2 years ago.”
✅ Done. Instantly.
Lindy is what happens when automation meets AI agents that actually execute.
This kind of workflow used to take a full-stack engineer and three SaaS subscriptions. Now it’s drag, drop, type, done.
If you’re a non-technical founder trying to scale lead gen or sales – this changes the game.
🧃 CLUB300: Now Open (Quietly)
We’re letting the first early builders inside our product lab.
What you get:
Everything we build, forever
Private drops + community + build breakdowns
Zero upsells. Just Juice.
Pricing:
$100/year
$1,000 LTD – lifetime, everything unlocked
📣 Want in? Hit reply with “I’m in” and we’ll send the early access link.
🚀 10x Your Output, Take a 4-Day Weekend
We’re all wasting time. Every day.
So The Hustle (yes, the one that sold to HubSpot for tens of millions) called me up and asked:
“How do you actually make a startup run lean, fast, and without drowning in busywork?”
Here’s the result:
🧠 A deep-dive feature in Trends on how I help founders save hundreds of hours by engineering their processes like fighter jet systems.
I break down:
Where time really disappears (hint: it’s not the to-do list)
Why “meetings about the work” are the real productivity killer
How we took a software release cycle from 8 weeks to 1 day
If you’re trying to buy back your time and scale something that doesn’t steal your weekends, this one’s for you.
🧩 Read the piece → 10x Your Output | Trends + Sam Jaxx
💬 CUSTOMER INTERVIEW: $10 For Your Thoughts
Want to throw an ingredient into the Juice? We’ll hop on a call, listen, ask smart questions, and pay you $10.
🧪 Idea Validation Reports – Free & Paid
→ Email us your idea. We’ll break it down. No risk. Real insight.
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🌅 Until next time…
You’re not behind. You’re early – to the weirdest, wildest shift in business history.
Just one thing: Don’t sit on it. Build something. Break something. Post something.
Even if it flops, you’ll get stronger.
Even if it fails, you’ll feel more free.
Stay weird,
– Team Business Juice
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