Liam Ottley
Everything Liam personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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Personal use in 10 episodes
"Making this jump into Claude code will change your life, and I promise you that. In Claude code, there's absolutely no ceiling whatsoever — it can build its own tools. I use it daily to run my life and business, and I've rebuilt the deep research skill using Claude code so that it searches all of the web, YouTube, podcasts, socials, academic papers, X, and Reddit."
▶ 13:51"All of my company's knowledge sits in one folder on GitHub so I can plug that into Claude Code or Codex and swap in any kind of coding agent that I want."
"Every time I open new sessions in Claude Code or Codex, it's just constantly managing that context."
"Do you think using n8n is still the go or should I make automations with Claude Code? Yeah, I just use Claude Code and Codex. It's all you need at the moment."
"Best way to do it is to pull up our good old handy dandy Claude Code and we can kick off some research."
"I've just been building an AIOS for him based on Claude Code, just for his kind of development workspace and where he's going to be able to do a lot of his work."
"I can build this stuff using Claude Code, and so I'm going to be walking you through how I was able to do that using Fable 5. Honestly, with Claude Code and Fable 5, it's super easy. You just tell it what you want, keep doing feedback cycles until it's at a point where you're happy with it."
"We built him a Claude Code AI operating system, which he really got the knack of by the end of it and started building some cool stuff with. When you have Claude Code on your machine, you are chatting to a harness that's plugged into all your tools and it's kind of like a single player experience."
"Over the past 4 months, I've done four different full transformations for businesses doing on-site what I call AI makeovers, setting up Claude Code AI operating systems for businesses. I'm personally pivoting away from using a very flexible and custom Claude Code AI operating system for clients in favor of a new and simplified setup in most cases."
"I've been building AI businesses for the past 3 years and my main focus is on teaching business owners how to set up an AI operating system for their business using Claude Code"
Personal use in 5 episodes
"You can use Claude to help you come up with these concepts as well. I came up with this concept and a bunch of other ones as well just by brainstorming with Claude. This orb design was something that I came to after a lot of back and forth."
▶ 1:49"I have both. I just have a Claude Max plan and a Codex Max plan."
"When I think about AI projects, I'm always working with Claude and ChatGPT."
"Claude, which is going to be the brain for this operation. It's going to be writing the prompts, the briefs, and the copy, researches competitors, refines the outputs, and orchestrates the overall pipeline."
"I've been installing these Claude code AI operating systems for businesses in person"
Personal use in 3 episodes
"We've started using a Slack agent called Victor in our own business recently and really trying to push that. And it just seems like a good interface and a real smooth way for non-technical founders to be able to access their AI and be able to chat to it in a multiplayer setting."
▶ 1:07:50"I actually set up this kind of Slack-based AI agent for my clients all the time. It's a really, really good way of accessing your AI agents, and this is awesome to see OpenAI moving into this category and making the agents and dots accessible within Slack."
"I'll pull every single Slack message and store it in the database that I'm always able to query, hey, what happened in Slack over the past 30 days"
Personal use in 3 episodes
"I'll just push this live with Railway and then you guys can get the breakdown on it."
▶ 1:50:57"He's got Railway for all of his hosting needs."
"I'm more of a Railway guy these days, guys. Railway is my go-to hosting platform."
Personal use in 3 episodes
"All of my company's knowledge sits in one folder on GitHub so I can plug that into Claude Code or Codex and swap in any kind of coding agent that I want."
▶ 4:16"I use Codex a lot for everything. I have like an AI operating system that's a GitHub repo that I use in Claude Code, that I use in Codex."
"I just use Claude Code and Codex. It's all you need at the moment."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"Kylon has just released a new feature that allows you to bring your own ChatGPT plan to Kylon to set up your agents on... just like that, we have our ChatGPT plan plugged into Kylon, which is going to save us hundreds if not thousands of dollars as we scale this system up."
▶ 2:42"OpenAI just released a new ChatGPT business platform and today I moved my entire company onto it and all my team and tested every new feature. And it's clear to me that if you run a business, this is the one AI update that you can't ignore."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"At the moment I just have it as a Supabase row — it's a table in Supabase in my company database — and you have to incorporate it into the AIOS so that whenever you start a session you're prompting the agent that when you do any significant work make sure you log it."
▶ 58:55"The second it's in a database like Supabase, you can ask it anything. To set up the database, we're going to be using Supabase. It's going to be free for you guys."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"Check this out. I just downloaded the Gemini app. They've got this thing called speak to Windows, or whatever they call it. It's included Wispr Flow. We can use this in any chat window."
▶ 1:35:55"We have the Google Gemini 2.5 flash. Again, it's got the wrong model here, so we'll just change it over to the one we want"
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"They were doing it as Canva slideshows and then they export that to PDF and then send that around to people who are interested in trips. Now, with what we tried with Canva MCP, but we couldn't get the flexibility in design, the accuracy, the attention to detail."
"we were doing custom coded development with the clunkiest OpenAI APIs you can imagine. Extremely hard to get anything really basic out of them in the early days."
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"You're going to be able to download that skill, pass it into Claude or ChatGPT. It's going to ask you questions about your business, work out what agents you need."
"I didn't quite get to showing you guys the Codex and Claude plugins, but basically when you are running into any cost issues, you can bring your own AI."
"I would upload all the data, take the ChatGPT and Claude export, put it in there, put in their business docs. It would crunch through all of that and then go to a questionnaire afterwards."
"We got GPT-4 from OpenAI, Claude from Anthropic, and Gemini from Google. These are all LLMs."
Mentioned in 8 episodes
"Exporting stuff out of ChatGPT, going through a questionnaire — just setting up a founder on a good template will take like a whole day."
"If you've been using ChatGPT for the past year, it already knows a ton about you and you're not just going to throw that away. You can go into ChatGPT, export your data, drop that file into a fresh Claude chat and say, 'Analyze all of this and save everything important about me to memory.'"
"getting their ChatGPT or Claude history in most cases. Pulling all of that, exporting it, baking it into what I'll call a context OS"
"go on to ChatGPT export your ChatGPT memory and bring that over"
"This is not ChatGPT. This is something entirely different an entirely different beast and it is infinitely more powerful than this"
"I'm sure if you've been using ChatGPT, you'll be familiar with that. Like, every time you use it, you have to explain your whole situation from scratch"
"Probably the biggest shock so far has been that they're not using Claude. It's all ChatGPT, and Daniel said it's mostly personal stuff."
"They're kind of mopping up OpenAI at this point. You could just see the difference between, hey, ChatGPT has now got spaces and pages, versus org-level access and perms and tracing and machine learning."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Everything you just said, including the going into the contracts, the PandaDoc, everything."
Mentioned in 4 episodes
"Null's follow-ups get written for him, ready to copy and send on LinkedIn, and the Google sheet they track subscriptions in is gone."
"You can connect it to Google Sheets and give it tons of data to analyze and pull into the chat, then easily move from analyzing that data to pushing new pages to Notion."
"A collection of Typeforms, Drive folders, Google Sheets CRMs, and Instagram saved collections served as a functional, though now outdated, system to get leads captured and trips planned."
"the data around it is then okay where are you in relation to because in here you'll also have your strategy what is our strategy for this quarter or this year or both then you have the data added in on top of it which is like your Google sheets"
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"And out of those three camps, it was the third one that won, and that's what we now call a harness, which is one model and a whole set of tools and a space to use and access that model. For example, Claude Code is a harness."
"This is the same setup that the top 0.1% of AI users run with Claude Code minus the pain and skills needed to set it up. You could build all of this in Claude Code and it does work, but it takes a whole day of hunting API keys down to every platform."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Next for the startups, we have Viktor, which is as close as I've seen to a real multiplayer platform. It's all based in Slack though, so a bit different to Kylon, and when you score it, it ranks five and a half out of seven, so pretty good."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Then we have Lindy, which has been around for a while, but it's kind of the more boring, like compliant one. It's got SOC 2, which matters if you're a clinic, so they scored a five out of seven."
Mentioned in 3 episodes
"Because if you ever moved a business onto HubSpot or Salesforce, then you know the drill, which is the data clean-up and the field mapping and the three months of we're just going to use the old one for now."
"One HubSpot services firm enriched 120,000 CRM contacts in under two hours for five bucks."
"In the case of HubSpot — HubSpot just released their thing called Uspot and it's a one-person business CRM — and same with Salesforce. I think CRMs are a great example because it's like, oh, why can't I just build my own CRM?"
Mentioned in 3 episodes
"Then we have OpenClaw, which is the harness itself. It's free, it's single player, it's sitting on a permission that Anthropic has revoked twice this year, which scores it at a two and a half out of seven."
"So we have dots, which is the OpenAI OpenClaw answer... turns out it was OpenClaw all along."
"Open claw is like Linux. It's like, yeah, you can kind of download it, mess around with it if you're somebody who's handy with that, if you want to just like build your own open source thing. But as far as like mass adoption, it's going to be something closed source like this."
Mentioned in 3 episodes
"For example, Claude Code is a harness. Grokbot is a harness. Codex is a harness."
"These guys are going to very quickly pull this stuff into Codex, into Claude Code. So all of the SaaS products and platforms are going to be rapidly integrating this."
"Right now when you have Claude Code or Codex on your machine, you are chatting to a harness that's plugged into all your tools and it's kind of like a single player experience."
Mentioned in 3 episodes
"And you come on the scene as xAI's Grok Bot, and it's honestly a pretty exciting one. It's dead simple to onboard, but nowhere near an all-in-one AI platform yet. It only scores a one and a half out of seven, but I wouldn't doubt Elon though."
"We've got Grokbot now from xAI, we have dots from OpenAI, and we have Muse from Meta, and they're all the same thing."
"Any automations you build will be stored in the channel kind of like you have on Grokbot. And I honestly think a lot of Grokbot seems to be inspired by this. If you look at Grokbot, this is Grokbot on steroids and has a lot of features that it doesn't have."
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"Because if you ever moved a business onto HubSpot or Salesforce, then you know the drill, which is the data clean-up and the field mapping and the three months of we're just going to use the old one for now."
"With agents plugged into this business layer and they can operate your Salesforce thing and say, 'Let's use the full depth of all of the features in Salesforce and make sure everything is integrated into it and we use the power of their technology and the stability and reliability and security of their platform.'"
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Watch a course online on how to build with Claude Code. Buy one on Udemy or go on YouTube."
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"If your business runs heavily on the Google stack, Google Docs, Calendar, Gmail, I'd probably wait a little bit because OpenAI is having to build its own docs and drive from scratch."
"I've always thought Notion is a cleaner UI than Google Docs. Google Docs is that thing that it's just, bro... it's like GHL to some extent."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"If you comment such and such and you start to get followers and comments and people in your ManyChat list, then you can go making offers directly to them."
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"Here's the Apify skill, here's the Apollo skill, and they bake in a lot of stuff in the default agent."
"They've got Apify, Apollo, design systems so all the apps come out looking correctly. This is all the stuff I do when I set up for clients. They've done all the hard work here."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"I just downloaded the Gemini app. They've got this thing called speak to Windows, or whatever they call it. It's included Wispr Flow."
Mentioned in 3 episodes
"Bunch of new releases this week we can go through. I got some interesting stuff on the Higgsfield video generation side that I want to have a jam on."
"I'm already thinking we've got like Higgsfield API and stuff like that will be a key thing here, and that would be image and video gen."
"Have you guys seen this Higgsfield thing? It's like baked into the ChatGPT app now, which is pretty crazy."
Mentioned in 4 episodes
"After Notion sort of showed us a new way of writing documents, and like the block style, it was hard to go back, you know? I just look at Docs and they're just ugly to me."
"Whatever apps you currently use, it's probably here — Notion, Google Drive, Slack."
"Your to-do list and project management apps like Monday or ClickUp or Notion."
"Notion's dead. I think Notion's still going to have a very good — yeah, but I wouldn't be surprised if Notion stocks just dropped. Notions clearly got these guys coming in hot."
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"I heard that from the All-In podcast, that Google's like, we might win the model race, but Google has more to gain from all these open source ones coming up and being able to run them on Google Cloud and make money as the inference provider."
"Here is Naval Ravikant, one of the world's most respected investors and technologists on the All-In podcast."
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