By building a custom GPT with deep company context, a CEO can compress hundreds of hours of research, analysis, and document creation into a 10-15 hour collaborative session, generating 95% of the final strategic output.
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In a remote environment, immediate access to colleagues isn't always possible. A GPT loaded with context about your company and cofounders' thinking can act as a thought partner, helping you overcome the "blank slate" problem without scheduling a meeting.
To save time with busy clients, create a "synthetic" version in a GPT trained on their public statements and past feedback. This allows teams to get work 80-90% of the way to alignment internally, ensuring human interaction is focused on high-level strategy.
Business owners are overwhelmed by AI terminology. A consultant can create a personalized GPT ecosystem using their unique preferences, goals, and workflows. This service turns an executive's operational knowledge into valuable intellectual property, packaged as custom system prompts and GPTs they can use daily.
By training AI on your personal data, arguments, and communication style, you can leverage it as a creative partner. This allows skilled professionals to reduce the time for complex tasks, like creating a new class, from over 16 hours to just four.
Generic use cases fail to persuade leadership. To get genuine AI investment, build a custom tool that solves a specific, tangible pain point for an executive. An example is an 'AI board member' trained on past feedback to critique board decks before a meeting, making the value undeniable.
To make company strategy more accessible, Zapier used Google's NotebookLM to create a central AI 'companion.' It ingests all strategy docs, meeting transcripts, and plans, allowing any employee to ask questions and understand how their work connects to the bigger picture.
By creating a private GPT and uploading all relevant business information, you can build an AI consultant that understands your specific context. This helps clarify priorities, vet new strategies, and maintain focus.
To scale the CEO's feedback, his EA created a custom GPT trained on his feedback style, strategy docs, and company norms. Team members use this 'CEO clone' to stress-test their proposals before official review, improving document quality and saving executive time.
Go beyond using AI for simple efficiency gains. Engage with advanced reasoning models as if they were expert business consultants. Ask them deep, strategic questions to fundamentally innovate and reimagine your business, not just incrementally optimize current operations.
A custom AI system named Marilyn, built by the CMO and one engineer, has become the central nervous system for Wiz's GTM team. It answers complex questions on competition, product docs, and strategy, even translating content for global teams. This demonstrates the immense ROI of building custom internal AI tools.
