There's a blind spot in how your company runs right now. AI can close it. It can hand you back hours every week, sharpen the owner's decisions, and put real margin back on the table. Mark's short video explains the shift. The $297 challenge is where you start building.
The AI Business-Builder Challenge: four Tuesdays, first live session Tuesday, December 8, 2026 at 7 PM ET. Every session recorded.
Pick the level of help that fits how your company runs today. You can start small and move up later.
Learn by building. Four Tuesdays with Mark, building AI tools you keep and run inside your own company.
We set up one AI agent or your AI avatar alongside you, and you approve its work before anything goes out.
Enter a typical week of repeat work and see hours and dollar value based on your own estimates. Free. Runs in your browser.
A security check of the AI your company already uses, or a full build across the whole firm.
You built your company the hard way. Skill, relationships, years of showing up when it counted. You've always been the one who sees around corners before anyone else does. Then AI showed up, started moving faster than anyone called it, and for the first time in a long while, you're the one playing catch-up.
Your best people are buried in work a machine could finish in seconds. A firm down the road just cut their prices because they automated the grind your team still does by hand. And every time you sit down to figure out the AI piece, you hit the same wall. A thousand tools. A thousand opinions. Zero clarity on what actually moves the needle for a company like yours.
So you push it to next quarter. Again. Meanwhile the companies that cracked it are signing the clients you used to win in your sleep, and their partners are home for dinner while yours are still at the office at nine.
Here's the part almost everybody misses. This is a strategy problem wearing a technology costume. The win comes from knowing exactly where AI pays off inside your specific company, in what order, and what the return looks like before you spend a single dollar. That's the blind spot. And once you see it, you can't unsee it.
The business schools hand you theory. The YouTube guys review tools all day. The agencies chase startups who can barely afford them. And the person actually running a real firm, with real clients, real payroll, and real complexity, gets left holding a hundred open browser tabs and no plan.
The enemy here was never a competitor. It's the blind spot itself. The thing you can't see is the thing quietly costing you the most. We named it, we built a system to close it, and we made that system something you can actually run.
A four-week challenge for business owners who want to see AI work in their own business, without coding or an IT team. You build alongside Mark: live the first week, then recorded build sessions and a live Q&A.
By the end you have four things you built yourself and keep.
One page showing where AI can save you time or cut cost in your business, in order.
Two or three agents handling research, content and admin tasks for you.
A no-code tool that takes one weekly chore off your desk.
An assistant that answers visitors on your site, plus one page written so AI search tools can find you.
Prefer a weekly live program for firm owners? Join the AI Playbook Live waitlist.
Everyday jobs we can set up AI to handle for you, on the tools you already use. You or someone on your team approves its work.
It drafts replies to the questions you get every week, in your words, for you to approve.
It offers open times from your calendar and books them, so nobody trades five emails to set a meeting.
It checks in with quotes and leads that went quiet, on the schedule you set.
It sends polite reminders and tells you who still hasn't paid.
An AI avatar built from your own footage, with your consent, presents scripts we write with you. Your AI Avatar
We turn your interviews into a short book in your voice, ready for Amazon, and you approve every page. Your Authority Book
Not sure where to start? Take the 3-minute AI Readiness Scorecard or try 10 free AI prompts
The challenge is the place to start. These standalone tracks go deeper for owners who want the AI-OS applied to a specific professional service firm.
For firm owners and managing partners ready to win back tax season, unlock advisory revenue, and keep their best people.
For managing partners who want to capture the billable hours slipping through the cracks and answer the client before the competition does.
More industries in the works, including medical, dental, real estate, consulting, and veterinary. Tell us yours.
This is the system underneath every playbook. Five layers, run in order, each one building on the last. It turns "use more AI" into a sequence you can actually follow and measure.
We find the leaks. A full diagnostic of where your time, money, and margin are quietly bleeding out, and where AI pays off first. You walk away knowing the dollars and the hours, in black and white.
We design the system. The right tools, in the right order, wired into how your company already works. A real architecture with a return timeline, instead of a pile of subscriptions.
We deploy it. The actual workflows, agents, and automations going live inside your practice. This is the layer almost nobody else will touch, and it's where the hours come back.
We keep it sharp. AI systems drift, tools change, your company grows. Ongoing tuning keeps the whole thing improving instead of going stale.
We turn it into an edge. Once the engine runs, it becomes the thing that makes your company genuinely hard to compete with. This is where efficiency turns into growth.
Get the downloadable PDF built for owners who want the dollars-and-hours version of AI. You'll see the hidden places where time, margin, marketing, and decision speed are already shifting.
I'm Mark Yegge. I've spent my career building businesses and investing my own money, which means I've trained myself to do one thing above all else. Spot what other people miss. The deal nobody else sees. The leak hiding in plain sight. The edge sitting right there for anyone willing to look.
AI is the biggest one of those I've come across in a long time. The chance is real. The catch is that almost every voice talking about it comes at it from the tech side, drowning serious operators in jargon and hype. So I built The AI Blind Spot to come at it from the other direction. From the business side. From the chair you're sitting in.
I look at AI the way you'd look at any business decision. What's the return, what's the risk, what do I do Monday morning. I'm a step ahead of you on this, working the same problem out in the open, and everything I find goes straight into these playbooks. You get the operator's lens on AI. The dollars-and-hours version. The part that actually shows up in your P&L.
Mark Yegge: CEO of a Wall Street firm 1993-2005, sold to a top New York bank. I host The Wealth Architect podcast, a weekly show for four years, and I have written dozens of books and courses on business, investing, relationships and asset structure.
For the owner who wants direct strategic access to Mark as the AI transition becomes a board-level decision. The Chairman Engagement gives you a strategic roadmap, operating priorities, and ongoing advisory guidance as your company moves from interest to implementation.
Execution stays with your team or a referred developer. Mark's role is the high-level architecture: what matters first, what creates leverage, what to avoid, and how to keep the AI move tied to time, margin, revenue, and enterprise value.
You want to know what to do Monday and how the move pays off.
Anyone can list tools. The value is in the system that connects them to revenue.
This speaks to you directly. You're the decision-maker, so the message stays at decision-maker altitude.
You need hours back, margin up, and a clearer next move.
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You'll meet live each week and rotate through real AI capabilities through the owner's lens. You'll understand what's possible, why it matters, where the leverage sits, and which moves deserve attention first.
The Playbook teaches the strategy, use cases, and owner-level decision framework. Hands-on execution belongs in Chairman Engagement or one-off coaching, with your team or a referred developer doing the building.
In The AI Playbook Live, you'll understand what's possible and why it matters. In Chairman Engagement, you'll get a strategic roadmap and ongoing guidance to execute it, with your team or a referred developer doing the build work.
The program is $1,988 when enrollment opens. The waitlist is free to join, with no deposit required.
Accounting and law have standalone tracks already. More industries are in the works, and the shared waitlist helps decide which verticals move next.
You already know which one you want to be. Watch the video, join the challenge, and start building before the blind spot gets more expensive.
Or join the AI Playbook Live waitlist.