Automate your Business with Claude Opus 4 in 10 minutes

Speaker A: Today we are going to cover exactly how to automate your business by using Claude Opus 4, which was just released. And the most amazing thing about it is there's only three steps to do this. One, set up the integrations properly. Two, basically do a time audit and automation audit of your business. And three, even look at capabilities to sound like you, write like you and talk like you for your email. Okay, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Ryan Staley and I basically provide AI ah, go to market transformation services for companies so that they could scale revenue without adding headcount. Today, like I said, we're going to go over those three key areas. This was just dropped. I got inbound texts from different people saying, oh my God, this is amazing. And so I'm going to walk you through this and I thought this was really critical. Let me start sharing my screen and what you'll do is you'll basically see as a starting point, first of all, I'm going to show you what the benchmarks are so you have context. Okay? I'm not going to say that Claude 4 opus is the best on earth at everything. Now what if, if you look at the comparisons versus OpenAI03 and Gemini Pro, it does really good at agentic coding, which is one of the texts I got from a friend who's like, basically I let this then run for an hour without touching it. Okay. It's never happened like that before with uh, automation tools, or I should say, uh, AI tools. It's higher in agentic coding. Now if you notice, graduate level reasoning, O3 and Pro are actually higher. However, in tool use it has the highest right here. Uh, and some of these other areas like multilingual Q and A visual reasoning, it's pretty comparable and it's not even the highest in high school math. However, that doesn't mean there's not amazing utility. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to walk you through exactly how to set this up. What you're going to see over here is in this, there's these three different areas which are integrations. Now these integrations are effectively happening through MCP servers where basically you're connecting your CLAUDE instance through what's called an API MCP server and effectively which is the claude. Not to get too technical, but uh, CLAUDE basically non technical version of how to do and connect with different APIs. Now what you're going to see here is there's Google Drive, there's Gmail, and then there's Google Calendar. What you could do is if you haven't basically connected these before you, you go to your settings like I have here and these will pop up. Now what you're going to want to do is if you did connect them, I disconnected them and reconnected them because it would not pick those up. Okay? So now what you're going to see is I can ask Claude to look at my Google Drive, my Gmail and my Google Calendar and basically analyze what I'm doing, identify the inefficiencies and at the same time basically do an audit, analysis of, or analysis, audit, whatever you want to call it, for agents and automations. And so I'm going to show you what the output of that looks like and I gave it a very specific goal. Now there are some cautionary things that you want to be careful about with this, okay? And I'm going to walk you through that and I'm going to tell you about it. Because I'm not one of those people that's always like, everything's amazing, there's no things that you got to watch for. I'm always going to tell you what I find are the limits that I run against these tools and what happens. Okay? So as you can see, I didn't give it a uh, overly complex prompt. I said please analyze my calendar for the last two weeks, do a time on it if I inefficiencies, opportunities and needs so I can free up 15 hours a week through contractors, a full time employee or automation. Okay, so what you're going to see here is this is pretty wild. It went through 117 events on my calendar. It looked at those calendar events and at the same time it looked across my email messages. Okay, so I did ask it to do a lot. Now with this, what you're going to see is within this step it goes through everything in terms of major time categories, what I'm spending the majority of my time on in terms of sales and business development, consulting and delivery, as well as content creation, admin management and even personal time in there. Okay. So one of the things it also identified was my fragmented focus time, which is true like because I have been interacting. I've been at a lot of conferences lately and I've been working with a lot of different organizations. I haven't had the deep work blocks that I normally do. Talks about manual repetitive tax, unstructured prospecting and content creation bottlenecks. So now what it does, and I thought this was pretty good, is it gave me 15 plus hours a week. Now currently I do have a VA, so I basically didn't prompt it properly to understand that context, but it's telling me to hire a VA SDR and a content creation contractor and also leverage AI automation tool. Now one of the things you're going to see is I like that it actually goes through and identifies the financial investments for each and what the expected ROI is. So it's basically saying that I could add another, you know, 20 to 50,000amonth in revenue, which sounds fantastic to me, putting a great ROI on the investment. But I said, hey, I already have a va. Please identify how I could leverage her and rewrite your recommendations. So it went through that and my assistant's name is Leah, so it was pretty cool that I actually picked that up. It talked about different opportunities within this, uh, it talked about content community management, admin time, and then it also talks about the different resources I needed. So basically it gave a much better version of what I asked it to do the first time because I gave it the appropriate context. So that's one of the things that you have to do, is really give it the appropriate context of your exact situation. Otherwise you're going to look at it and be like, this isn't for me. Okay, so now one of the things that I liked about this, that it did really good is it broken into week by week blocks and integrations for me. So what it says is, okay, list everything that you do week one, identify what I could start to offload more. And then it starts. So basically it says, leverage my VA first, then build systems and templates, then start to look at automation integration. Okay, uh, and within this it starts to talk about what I could have my VA do immediately, what I can hire an SDR for and other areas that they, that you could see. Like, the real interesting thing is once again it goes back to this roi. If I delegate this outcome it's talking about, all right, I could fit in 8 to 10 more sales calls a week, which is critical for any leader, any company, any founder of how you could generate more revenue. And I didn't even ask it to really. Actually this is not true. I did ask it to focus on revenue growth. So that was one of the key areas that I have now. I also said, all right, identify the top three automations I can leverage using Gumloop. And for those of you who don't know, Gumloop is basically like a no code automation platform where you could string together almost like nodes which are like agents, uh, and conduct those. I don't have Any affiliation with them. However that was what I looked at. And so it was talking about daily lead intelligence qualification. It even gives the exact workflow and what it's talking about is the time spent there. Intelligent meeting orchestration. Okay, so that's basically meeting prep which I'm already doing anyways. I already have my assistant doing that and then content multiplication, right? And it wraps those up and this is basically what it's going to start to do is like implementing implementation strategy. It goes week one, week two, week three and then it's talking about additional opportunities like I participate in Gartner and Pavilion. I'm a community member so I answer that also looking at like the AI training that I'm conducting for different organizations and it talks about the ROI calculation. So it's basically saying for uh, 100 and 200amonth I, I get a 200x ROI, right? So I thought this was pretty darn comprehensive. Like I said, I didn't spend massive amounts of time. Literally it probably took with the thinking time and going back and prompting probably took about maybe 15 minutes to do this. And this is based on the real context. Now one of the things I will say for you as an example is like there are some variables that it did not factor in. Uh, and if I would have worked with it more specifically that were outside of my calendar I could have identified that. The other thing too is I've been going to conferences like I said. So I have a little bit of an anomaly in my schedule in terms of what I'm spending time on versus a normal area. However, what you could see is no matter who you are, what you do, you connect that integration like I told you step one, step two, you look for the automations and it gives you an exact plan. And now what I'm going to do is give you step three which is basically how can you start to automate and streamline your emails. Everybody that I know really hates the massive time dump that you're taking in terms of emails. So I thought this was really good to look at because I actually tested this off of Google as well with Gemini because I have the alpha version of Gemini in workspace. So I'm like all right, Google is where my calendar is anyways, why can't I just ask Gemini to do it? And Gemini would not be able to read my calendar. So a little confusing to me on why I couldn't do that. Now let me go back and share my screen and I could show you the other example on what I did. Okay, uh, so this area talks about review my emails, determine my style, writing style and tone of voice. Save it into your memory as Ryan style. So then it understands how I communicate. And I said review my most recent 20 emails you might have wanted done 10 basically, uh, pick the most important urgent based on my goals of reducing individual time spent as well as leading people in their business to thrive in the AI age. Right. So what you're going to see is it went through this, it went through the emails and analyzed this. Now what's interesting is it did do the Ryan style analysis, right where how I am direct and efficient, numbered lists, action orientated, casual but professional like these all describe. Now it's funny because like I got some marketing emails that came across from Ali, um, Myron and Chris Penn. So like I would not say that those are my most critical emails. So. And what I said is I'm like, can you please reanalyze you have identified marketing nurture emails sent to me that are, I don't need to respond to. So the thing about it was it did go back through and you know, like I had a podcast sponsorship opportunity, uh, I had another meeting, a couple other meetings with folks that were on my calendar. So basically, um, you know there's, there's other areas within here that I thought were really strong with it and once again it rewrote my overall style for responses. And so now the good thing about it is I could use this for any kind of email, pop it in there, I could put this in a GPT, I could leverage this as an assistant, Claude, you name it. But now what it's going to do is have those details specifically within here and identify how I could do this to kind of wrap things up. I mean, I guess we're entering a new frontier where these models are starting to become directly connected to the real place in which we work. And that's why I thought originally Microsoft Copilot would have a massive advantage over everybody in the enterprise space, which means basically it's connected to all the Microsoft Office capabilities, all the docs within OneDrive. However, what I'm seeing with Claude right now is it's further ahead because it's connecting with the Google Workspace area and it's doing it much tighter than Gemini at this point. Right. So that was one of the things that surprised me. However, one thing you have to be careful of, I noticed with my plan because I had to look across all my calendar in Google Drive and there's one other test I did and it just basically it bottomed out it wasn't, wasn't enough space. It was asking me to upgrade to The a hundred dollar a month or $200 a month account was I was trying to have it analyze everything about my business and help me generate strategies based on that. I think that was too much. And so it started to analyze it and then I said it uh, hit my rate limit and I was basically could not use my license for another five hours. So what's going to start to happen is as these companies provide more and more value by being tighter integrated, there's going to be cost structures that you lean up against and this is going to continue to get more and more expensive even though they said it's going to get cheaper and cheaper in my opinion because it's going to start to look at other parts of data and once again VCs are currently subsidizing these cheap prices of these big companies. So anyways, hope that was helpful for you today. Really appreciate you joining me and I look forward to seeing you all on the next video.