Stop Building AI Agents. Do This Instead.

He calls himself the non-technical tech bro. In this episode, he maps out the five levels of using AI agents, from treating ChatGPT like Google to running parts of your business with no human in the loop: connect AI to your real data, turn your repeat work into skills, build a second brain your AI can read, let agents watch your numbers, and let AI find and fix problems on its own. Angus breaks down why skills beat teams of marketing and sales agents, the one rule for when to build a skill, why more context can make AI dumber, and the prompt that makes AI ask you questions until it is 95% certain. He also shares the starter stack he recommends, why content still needs human taste, and why nine out of ten business owners who hand a technical build to a non-technical AI guy get burned. Riverside: Go to https://creators.riverside.com/Grant and use code GRANT to get one month of the Grow plan. -------------------- Chapters: 00:00:00 The 5 Levels of Using AI 00:00:35 Level 1: Why Custom GPT Experts Only Sound Expert 00:01:20 Where to Start If You've Never Used AI 00:02:40 Connect AI to Your Real Data 00:04:14 The 95% Prompt Trick 00:04:42 Level 2: Skills Have the Biggest Impact 00:05:45 Skills vs Agents 00:07:01 If You've Done It Twice, Make It a Skill 00:09:25 The Biggest Mistake People Make With Skills 00:10:13 Why a Downloaded Skill Can't Replace Your Editor 00:13:45 Level 3: A Second Brain for Your Business 00:14:36 Why More Context Makes AI Dumber 00:22:15 The Simplest Way to Start a Second Brain 00:24:27 Find Any Connector You Need 00:28:16 How He Turns His Instagram Data Into Video Ideas 00:31:51 How an Orchestrator Agent Keeps Context Clean 00:33:39 Why Teams of AI Agents Produce Slop 00:34:42 Level 4: The Watcher 00:37:21 Why Content Still Needs Human Taste 00:41:01 How He Went From 15K to 100K Followers 00:48:14 Skills That Improve Themselves 00:49:21 Level 5: No Human in the Loop 00:49:56 The Starter Stack: Claude, Postgres and n8n 00:52:42 Don't Hand a Technical Build to a Non-Technical AI Guy 00:55:36 Why Technical People Are Still Valuable