Hey friends 👋,
It’s been a minute since the last update!
Over the past few months, we’ve been up to a lot — making a ton of content on AI agents, automation, and everything we’re learning as we build.
On the Cassidy side, things have been moving fast. We’ve been growing the team, and we just moved into a new office in Manhattan. If you’re ever in New York, come say hi! We’ve got cold brew, whiteboards, and a bunch of people building wild AI stuff.
We’ve also been pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI automation. It’s been amazing to see what companies are building with Cassidy.
One of my favorite moments recently was our company-wide “dogfooding day,” where every team blocked off time to automate as much of their own work as possible using our own product. What a day.
If you’re curious how to actually use AI in real workflows (not just write blog posts with it), I’ve been breaking down some of our best internal agents and showing exactly how to build them, step by step, in those videos.
Check out a few of the latest ones below. And as always, thanks for following along. More soon.
— Justin
Sales AI Agents that *actually* drive results
I just released a new tutorial on YouTube showing how to build three powerful AI sales agents in Cassidy.
They don't just send robotic follow-ups... they qualify leads with your exact criteria, manage meeting prep with context on past calls and upcoming deliverables, update your CRM with precision, and more.
You can set these up in minutes without writing a single line of code.
As AI continues to evolve, the companies that integrate these tools into their sales motion will have a massive advantage over those still doing everything manually.
Check out the full video on my YouTube.
The AI Playbook
I'm bringing back The AI Playbook episodes to answer your burning questions about AI, startups, and more.
Episode 4 just dropped this week, tackling the top questions about AI implementation in business and revealing where you can get the most gains from automation. If you're trying to figure out how to actually make AI work for your company (beyond the hype), this one's for you.
Why am I restarting these? Simple. I want to deliver actionable insights you can implement immediately as AI becomes more and more prominent in business and in life.
What's coming next: Episodes on building AI agents, automating sales processes, and the exact workflows we use at Cassidy to save hundreds of hours per month.
Drop a comment on the latest video with questions you want answered in future episodes!
Watch Episode 4 here.
Trump's "Anti-Woke AI" Order and What it Means for the U.S. AI Race
As for AI news, President Trump recently signed an executive order banning what he calls “woke” AI from federal use. The directive requires agencies to use models that are “truthful” and “neutral,” excluding references to systemic racism, gender identity, or DEI (unless a user explicitly asks for them).
This move is part of the broader America’s AI Action Plan, a new national strategy aimed at accelerating innovation, reducing regulation, and reasserting U.S. leadership in AI globally.
Key elements of the plan include:
- “De-woking” government AI: Federal agencies are barred from using tools that embed DEI principles by default.
- Exporting U.S. AI abroad: Promoting American AI standards, software, and chips to allies to compete with China.
- Loosening regulations: More permits for data centers and overriding some state-level environmental constraints.
- Rolling back oversight: Reevaluating FTC efforts to regulate AI and dialing back consumer protection rules seen as burdensome.
- Leaning on the private sector: Prioritizing open-source, market-driven development over federal intervention.
- Investing in research: Funding AI-enabled scientific discovery, with less emphasis on human-led research.
Reactions are obviously mixed. Supporters say it helps prevent political bias in taxpayer-funded tools. Critics warn it could discourage companies from addressing complex but important topics if they want to work with the government.
But there’s a real question underneath it all: what should “neutral AI” actually mean?
Not in the sense that we can remove all bias — that’s impossible. But in the sense that people should have the freedom to choose how their AI behaves. We already pick our own doctors, our own therapists, our own news sources. It’s not a stretch to think we should be able to pick an AI that reflects our values, too.
With real investment in open models, real user configurability, and a strong U.S. ecosystem, we might end up with something better than “woke” or “anti-woke.”
Just… yours.
Re-Thinking Meetings
We released our meeting recorder and meeting agents last week... and everyone in the office has been using it daily. It's honestly changed how we work.
This meeting bot joins every call and transcribes everything that's said, meaning all meeting action items are captured without me doing a thing.
The biggest unlock though for our team has been the different workflows and agents we can create with the context of our meetings. Things like drafting and sending follow up emails, assigning action items, updating the CRM, and more are all completed the second we sign off of the call.
Worth checking out if you haven't already.
Watch my recent video about it for more info.
Want to try out Cassidy? You can sign up here.
⭐ AI Quick Hits
- Nvidia’s FourCastNet Powers Ultra-Rapid, Energy-Efficient Weather Forecasting [Read here]
- Buenos Aires Traffic is Transformed via AI. [Read here]
- China calls for Global AI Cooperation amidst Trump's Executive order [Read here]
Stay tuned for more soon...
Thanks for reading,
Justin
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