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Take Your Business From Zero to One With AI - Ep. 16 with Nicholas Thorne

Mar 27, 2024

Nicholas Thorne, a General Partner at Prehype and founder of Audos, is revolutionizing entrepreneurship with AI. He discusses how Audos, an AI chatbot, can quickly transform ideas into pitch decks, websites, and GPTs. Thorne shares his journey of using ChatGPT to prototype features for non-technical entrepreneurs. Key topics include leveraging AI to enhance founder effectiveness, refining business strategies, and automating customer feedback. This conversation is a treasure trove for aspiring entrepreneurs looking to harness AI for innovation.

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AI tools like Chat GPT empower entrepreneurs to automate script generation and prototype development, enabling quick iteration without technical expertise.

AI facilitates automating product development and customer feedback collection, generating product roadmaps based on interactions and preferences to validate business ideas.

Utilizing AI extensively streamlines business initiation, from deck creation to customer interviews, enhancing user experience and accelerating the transition from idea to business setup.

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Innovative Customer Acquisition Process

The podcast episode delves into a unique customer acquisition process that utilizes AI extensively. It outlines a seamless journey starting with a deck creation through a website, a chat-based wizard allowing modifications, and finally diving into customer interviews. By automating tasks such as generating presentations and setting up websites based on user responses, the process streamlines business initiation and feedback collection. Utilizing AI-driven solutions, the approach enhances user experience and accelerates the transition from idea conception to tangible business setup.

Staying Close to Customers and Making First Drafts

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Exploration of Air Table Integration and Automation with ChatGPT

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Exploring the AI-Powered Business Workflow

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From Ideas to Action: Overcoming Obstacles in Business Creation

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Intro

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The Journey of Innovation and Gratitude in Entrepreneurship

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Harnessing AI and Blockchain for Business Innovation

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Targeting Customers with AI Tools

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Transforming Ideas into Action: Bridging the Entrepreneurial Gap

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Enhancing Presentation Creation with AI Tools

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Harnessing AI for Business Innovation

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Harnessing AI for Creative Entrepreneurship

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Nicholas Thorne is building Squarespace for the AI age. It’s called Audos, and it’s an AI chatbot to help any entrepreneur go from idea to:

- Pitch deck

- Working website

- Custom GPT

- User interviews with real customers

All in just a few minutes. And he did it using ChatGPTapp. It’s AI all the way down—and it’s one of the most impressive AI businesses I’ve ever seen.

Nicholas is a general partner at Prehype, an incubator that launched Barkbox and Ro Health. It’s also where I started Every, so it was great to come full circle.

Nicholas’s job at Prehype is to launch new companies. He’s taken everything he’s learned running an incubator and used it to help entrepreneurs start businesses at scale—with AI.

As we talk, Nicholas walks me through the interactions of Audos’s chatbot with a user live on the show.

Nicholas tells me that he used ChatGPT to prototype most of Audos’s features—despite being non-technical himself. He shares exactly how he did this by showing me how he’s using AI to create a new feature for the product. We get into: - Ways AI can make you a more effective founder - How to use ChatGPT to build your prototype - Strategies to refine problem statements with AI - Using GPTs to gather and synthesize customer feedback This episode is a must-watch for anyone who has ever toyed with the idea of starting a business—and wants to do it with AI.If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ⁠ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT⁠. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: ⁠https://every.to/subscribe⁠ Follow him on X: ⁠https://twitter.com/danshipper⁠ Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Teaser 00:00:48 - Introduction 00:12:10 - How AI can make you a more effective founder 00:17:03 - Live demo of Audos! 00:24:07 - Why Nicholas built an AI tool to enable entrepreneurs 00:25:35 - How Audos puts you in “edit mode” instead of “create mode” 00:28:12 - Tools to gather customer feedback, generated by Audos 00:32:58 - How Audos actually works 00:35:07 - Nicholas uses ChatGPT to prototype a new feature 00:42:37 - How to establish checks and balances while using ChatGPT 00:57:20 - AI as a force for pushing entrepreneurship to new heights Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Nicholas Thorne: ⁠@thorneny⁠; ⁠nicholas@prehype.com⁠ Audos: ⁠https://www.audos.com/⁠ Nicholas’s book, Me, My Customer, and AI, is slated to publish next month. Follow him on X for updates: https://mmcai.super.site/

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AI and I

Take Your Business From Zero to One With AI - Ep. 16 with Nicholas Thorne

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Innovative Customer Acquisition Process

Empowering Entrepreneurs with AI Tools

AI-Driven Product Creation and Feedback Collection

Building Automation for DNS Records and Air Tables

Maximizing AI Tools for Communication and Product Development

Staying Close to Customers and Making First Drafts

Exploration of Air Table Integration and Automation with ChatGPT

Exploring the AI-Powered Business Workflow

From Ideas to Action: Overcoming Obstacles in Business Creation

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts