Mike Roberts, Friday Oct 30

You and Mike Roberts of cccareers.org, Friday Oct 30, 4:31 to 5:43 PM Pacific, on your Zoom room. A long, friendly, wide-ranging call between two people building with AI.

Your new Slack harness for leads, which builds the CRM record, the Drive folder and a Slack channel, then the companion view with Claude inside it (4:32 to 4:34). Your chief-of-staff setup and its daily reports (4:38 to 4:40). Instinct, which you called private beta (4:36 to 4:37).

His own Claude Code habits and token budget (4:35). The e-signature app he built in a day for CC-C (about 4:42). His AI training-video method and a pitch for CC-C that you scored with your UCSB test (5:27). His point that he holds the only registered AI apprenticeship program in California and that funders are not calling (about 5:09). His interest in the Visual Matching Engine, and your advice to expose an API and keep the matching logic private (4:47 to 4:50).

Mike asked for sharper strategy help, said he wants more rounds of polish, and has a meeting Wed or Thu. You said you would send material in a minute and told him to reach out any time (5:43).