Andrew Warner asked: "Every time I talk to a founder, I hear about some AI workflow I never would have thought to try. What are the non-obvious ones you're seeing?"

Most people use AI to make stuff. The overlooked category: using AI to mirror things back to you. Scoring. Flagging. Routing. That's where the leverage is hiding.

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# SHOW NOTES

- The Make vs Mirror Matrix: you're probably doing Make — but Mirror is where the blind spots live
- Jeff Brewer gets rated on clarity, decisiveness, and interruptions after every single meeting
- Dan Shipper built a system that flags when he's avoiding confrontation
- Wade Foster (Zapier CEO) scores team meetings against Five Dysfunctions and sends individual feedback
- Pete Sena's mega prompt analyzed 13 years of my notes and surfaced patterns I'd forgotten
- Chris Brownridge routes meeting actions to Linear/calendar automatically via Claude agent
- One meeting. One mirror workflow. Ship it. Stack from there.

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# TOOLS MENTIONED

- Motion AI Exec Coach (meeting scoring)
- Granola (local-first meeting notes)
- Zapier (automation)
- Fireflies (meeting transcription)
- Claude Desktop / Claude Code (local file analysis)
- Linear (task routing)

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# ABOUT DEARBEN.AI

Practical AI for CEOs who don't have time to become AI experts.

Ben Fisher — 2x CEO, 3x CTO.
A founder-to-founder experiment answering real AI questions from operators running real companies.

Ask yours at https://DearBen.ai

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