Take Your Business From Zero to One With AI - Ep. 16 with Nicholas Thorne
Mar 27, 2024
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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.
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.
Deep dives
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.
Empowering Entrepreneurs with AI Tools
The episode highlights the empowerment of entrepreneurs through AI tools like chat GPT. It showcases how individuals with no prior technical background can leverage AI to automate script generation and prototype development. By simplifying coding processes and enabling quick iteration, entrepreneurs can efficiently materialize their concepts without extensive programming knowledge. The discussion emphasizes the transformative impact of AI in enabling individuals to explore complex technological solutions.
AI-Driven Product Creation and Feedback Collection
The podcast delves into the fascinating concept of using AI to automate product development and customer feedback collection. It illustrates how AI-driven tools can swiftly generate product roadmaps based on customer interactions and preferences. By merging AI-generated assets like websites with conversational GPT interfaces, entrepreneurs can efficiently engage with potential customers and validate their business ideas. The seamless integration of AI technologies facilitates rapid iteration and feedback incorporation in the product development process.
Building Automation for DNS Records and Air Tables
The podcast episode delves into automating tasks related to updating DNS records for websites and creating new subdomains. One task involves using an API to update DNS records, directing the subdomain to a specific IP address. The second task focuses on creating an air table tailored to store information obtained by a GPT. The process includes defining the database schema, automatically generating the air table, and ensuring it aligns with the required information.
Maximizing AI Tools for Communication and Product Development
The episode highlights the effective use of AI tools, particularly Chat GPT, in streamlining processes for entrepreneurs. Chat GPT aids in creating scripts, automations, and product prototypes swiftly through text-based instructions. By leveraging AI extensively, entrepreneurs can quickly build products, connect with third-party services, and prototype efficiently without extensive technical expertise. The combination of air table scripting and AI tools provides a scalable approach for product development and experimentation.
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!
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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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