AI Is Now My Main Interface for Running the Business

Well, there’s been a bit of a delay since the last one. When I started the Founder’s Memo I talked about getting my reps in and staying consistent. That’s harder than it sounds when I’ve got my fingers in so many projects. So let me tell you about one of them.

One of my biggest goals going into 2026 was to really up my game with AI. Not just chatting with it and goofing off a little, but actually changing how I run the business. I’ve made a lot of headway. Some days I’m working along and it hits me just how different my workflow is now.

I’ve got a three-monitor setup, and one of those screens is pretty much 100% AI, all day. Claude Code on one side, Hermes on the other (Hermes itself runs on a Mac mini). There’s a little DGX Spark under there for local models too, though honestly I’m using Opus for most things. And about 90% of my typing is now WhisperFlow. I hit a key and talk, whether it’s a client reply, an email, or instructions to my AI.

The thing is, AI has become my primary interface for running the business. I’ve basically moved into the role of orchestrator. AI doesn’t make the decisions. I’m still aware of everything and I’m still okaying it. But I’m not spending my time tapping keys, hunting for the right button, or clicking through screens in WordPress. AI does that faster than I ever could.

Which brings me to Mission Control. AI generates a lot of output. Scheduled jobs, reports, data from all over the place. Even if it lands in an AIOS folder on my drive, I still have to remember to go find it and open some HTML file. It gets disjointed fast unless you put a system around it.

So I built one. Mission Control is a set of dashboards that pulls everything into one place. My task list for the day, my projects, the morning planning job, reports like a search action plan built from Google Search Console data. Client work out of Basecamp. My Concierge Cloud servers and fleet security monitoring. Traffic, YouTube stats, even my accounting. I can already tell it’s going to be my go-to app.

But it’s not an app I’m pointing and clicking around in. I think pointing and clicking is going to become a smaller and smaller part of what we do. I’m orchestrating through AI. Mission Control is just where I can see what it’s doing… because as humans, we still need a screen to look at.

And yes, it does make you wonder whether we’re getting so reliant on AI that we’re beholden to these companies. That’s part of why I’ve got local AI running too. It probably won’t be as good. But it works.