Three weeks ago I paused enrollment for the Agentic Business Sprint. If you’re on this list because you’re already in the cohort, or you’ve been circling it waiting for the right moment, you deserve the real version of why. Not the vague “stepping back to focus on other priorities” line people use when they don’t want to explain themselves.
Here’s what happened.
The client who was right about her own team
A SaaS founder came to me convinced her web development team wasn’t doing enough. She was right. Her team’s idea of “AI adoption” was dropping a few skill files into VS Code and calling it a day. No agents actually running. No workflows automated. The business was moving at the speed you’d expect from a team that thinks a config file is a strategy.
I pitched her a training session. Teach her people how to actually use this stuff.
She asked me to just implement it instead.
So I built her a proposal: $22,000 to go in and do the work myself. Real agents, real automation, an actual operating layer instead of a folder of prompts nobody opens twice. She bought it on the third conversation.
Here’s the number that matters. I’d calculated I needed to sell 20 cohort seats to hit the same revenue as one implementation client. One whale, three sales calls, and the math on “teach people to fish” versus “just come fish for them” got very uncomfortable, very fast.
Why I paused instead of just squeezing it in
I could have kept the cohort’s timeline and treated the client work as a side project. I didn’t, because the client work wasn’t a distraction from the cohort. It was the most honest market research I’ve gotten all year.
Working inside a real company, with a real dev team that genuinely believed skill files equal agents, showed me something the cohort curriculum wasn’t built to handle yet: the basics I thought people needed, and the basics people actually need, are diverging. Fast.
Most “AI education” right now teaches people how to prompt better. This client’s team could prompt fine. What they couldn’t do was operate. There’s a canyon between “I know how to talk to an AI” and “I have an agent operating system running my business while I sleep,” and almost nobody selling AI education is addressing the second thing, because it’s harder to teach and harder to sell in a six-slide webinar.
The pause forced something useful: a full rewrite of the curriculum. I’m not walking back into the Sprint with the same material three weeks later just because the calendar moved. I’m walking back in with a curriculum that got stress-tested against a live $22K engagement instead of a whiteboard.
Where the cohort stands right now
If you’re already in the Agentic Business Sprint: existing members get a meet and greet this Friday. That comes with extended access and early access to the reworked content, ahead of everyone else. The first real workshop lands in three to four weeks, once the curriculum reflects what I actually just learned instead of what I assumed going in.
If you’ve been on the fence about joining: the door is open through Friday, and if you buy in before then, you get complimentary 1:1s stacked on top of the regular workshop calls. That offer goes away Friday. That’s the real date the current cohort’s access window locks and the new curriculum work starts in earnest.
The Sprint still does what it always did: get you clients with AI, help you fulfill without becoming the bottleneck yourself, and move the whole operation into an agent operating system instead of a stack of tabs and reminders. What’s changing is how seriously it treats the gap between installing something and automating something, because I just got paid $22,000 to prove that’s where the real money is.
If you want in before Friday: Agentic Business Sprint
Wild, I’ve been working to find clients for this for awhile with no network to start from and just biding my time, you’ve jumped in and immediately get a dream engagement for me. Congrats, and keep going