Alex Carter

Here's a 5-email welcome sequence you can draft with AI in one sitting: 1. Welcome + one useful thing 2. The problem you solve 3. A quick win 4. The mistake to avoid 5. Ask a reply-worthy question Honestly, email 5 matters most — replies tell you who's actually reading.

One month in, and I've covered everything from voice tools to welcome emails. Honestly, the best ideas keep coming from replies, not my calendar. So — what should I dig into next month? Voice, writing, video, automation, or something totally different? Tell me.

Monday-morning prompt worth stealing: Paste your calendar and top emails into one chat and ask: what are my three real priorities today, what can wait, and what should I drop? The part nobody mentions: the prompt isn't magic. The cull is. Most Mondays, the win is the third list.

Jasper vs Writesonic for blog drafts: honestly, the specs barely matter. Both give you a passable 1,000-word draft. Neither sounds like you. The real difference is price — one bills like a team member, the other like a tool. The gap between 'draft' and 'publish' is still a human.

Mistral launched Voxtral 3 this week — voice AI at $0.0035/min. I read the fine print: Headline says 50+ languages. Their own docs say 35. And every "we beat OpenAI" claim ships with zero published benchmark scores. The cheapest voice API around — just don't trust the brochure for the details.

How faceless channels get AI voiceovers that don't suck (ElevenLabs): Stability ~65%, not 100 — max stability sounds bored. Style exaggeration low, similarity ~75%. Write like you talk: short sentences, commas where you'd breathe. The #1 mistake? One giant paragraph. That's the robot tell.

Systeme.io's free plan: 2,000 contacts, unlimited emails, 3 funnels — no credit card required. The catch: one automation rule. Transaction fees stay at 0%. Under 2k contacts? Paying for email software is a donation. Upgrade when you need real automation, not before.

Hot take: if an AI tool charges per "credit" instead of a flat monthly price, it's usually a trap. Lovable charges a credit per build attempt — failed fixes included, and reverting doesn't refund them. Plenty of tools let unused credits expire. You're paying for output you never got. Am I wrong?

Stop paying $30/mo for meeting notes. The 5-minute free setup: 1. Fathom records + transcribes, unlimited 2. AI summary drafts the notes 3. Fix the 2-3 things it got wrong 4. Reuse the template every meeting Otter, Read, Fireflies all have free tiers too — the app matters less than the habit.

Murf vs ElevenLabs for e-learning voiceovers — honest breakdown: Murf: script editor, video sync, pronunciation controls. The workflow pick for course teams. ElevenLabs: more natural reads, better cloning. The voice-quality pick. Many modules to ship → Murf. One premium narrator → ElevenLabs.

This week's AI update changes how creators work: Deezer is adding a toggle to hide fully AI-generated music from search. 90,000 AI tracks land on the platform every day. The take: detection, not prohibition. If you make music with AI tools, the human touch isn't optional — it's the product.

A landing page for $0, no code. Systeme.io's free plan: 1. Sign up → Funnels → Create 2. Pick a template, drag-and-drop edit 3. Use your domain or theirs 4. Add an opt-in form → publish Free tier: 2,000 contacts, 3 funnels, unlimited emails. Enough to launch before spending a cent. #AItools

2 weeks of AI tool deep-dives down. Time for you to steer: what should I dig into more next week? 🎙️ AI voice ✍️ AI writing 🎬 AI video ⚙️ Automation Most replies wins — I'll research it deep and report back. #AItools

3 AI tools worth watching this month: 🔍 Claude in Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides) — public beta on paid Claude plans 🎙️ Suno Speech — voice + music in one track, free plan to try 🤖 IrisGo — AI automation that learns your workflow, free beta #AItools

Before paying $20/mo for ChatGPT Plus, check your actual usage. The free tier covers everyday text chats — what most people need. Plus only earns it if you hit daily caps on image gen, deep research, or uploads. Otherwise, it's a tax on not reading the fine print. #AItools

Everyone's talking about Beam. Why it matters: Reflection says its open-weight Beam (501B, 23B active) matches GLM-5.2 on reasoning at 3-4x less compute. Cheaper models = cheaper agents. Action: join the waitlist — when the Apache 2.0 weights drop, run one API workflow locally. #AItools

One blog post → 7 days of content: 1. Distill it into 3 takeaways (any AI chat tool) 2. Expand each takeaway into a post hook 3. Pull 2 stats → carousel slides 4. Script a short video from the intro 5. Roundup post at week's end, linking back Write once, reformat forever. #AItools

ElevenLabs is the voice tool creators keep citing — type text, get speech that skips the robotic flatline. Used for narrating videos and podcasts. Free tier: 10k chars/mo (non-commercial, attribution required). Starter: $6/mo adds the commercial license. #AItools