December. A client call. And the question that started everything.

Greetings, Grasshopper.

Last week I told you about Nancy Wilson. The riff in the dark. The architecture underneath the voice. The partner who made everything else possible.

And I asked you to think about AI that way. Not as the voice trying to steal your mic — but as the force running underneath your work, making the whole room feel it when YOU show up.

A lot of you wrote back.

And here’s what I noticed:

Most of you aren’t afraid of AI anymore. You’re past that. What you are is frustrated as hell. Because you’ve tried the tools. You’ve signed up for the apps. You’ve watched the demos and the hype reels and the “10 AI tools that will change your life” posts.

And none of the tools work the way YOU work.

Because they weren’t built for you. They were built for everyone. Which — say it with me, Grasshopper — means they were built for no one.

So, I’ve got a question for you.

What if you stopped shopping for your Nancy — and built her instead?

Not some cobbled-together Frankenstein of fourteen apps held together with duct tape and wishful thinking. A real partner. Software, automations, chatbots, entire systems — built YOUR way, for YOUR people, around YOUR process.

Without coding. Without a team of programmers. Without selling your soul to someone else’s platform.

I know this sounds like a big claim. So let me qualify that a bit.

December 2025. I’m on a call. Showing a potential client my Command Center. Five bot systems. Forty-plus specialized bots. Custom dashboards. Automated workflows. The whole thing talking to itself, routing users, saving data, doing its thing.

Client looks at the screen. There’s a pregnant pause.

“How many programmers do you have?”

Just me. And I don’t code.

They didn’t believe me at first. I get it. But that’s what happens when you stop fighting AI and start blending with it. I call it [AI]Kido — like aikido, but for working with AI instead of against it. You use AI’s momentum instead of beating it into submission.

That’s what No BS AI is.

Twelve weeks. You and me. Building together.

Not a lecture series. Not a demo reel. A build-along — where you show up, pick YOUR project, and we make it real. Half the sessions are live instruction. The other half are lab sessions where I help you troubleshoot YOUR specific thing.

You’ll get stuck. Everyone does. That’s what the lab weeks are for. That’s what having a room full of other builders figuring it out alongside you is for.

By the end, you’ll have something that actually works — a bot, an automation, a tool, a system — built for your world, not someone else’s idea of what your world should look like.

No BS AI — 12-week build-along

Starts March 26 • Noon–2pm Central every week

6 live build-along sessions + 6 experimental lab sessions

$497 • Replays included • No coding required

Build-It-or-Refund Guarantee: Complete all 12 sessions and show me one working thing you built. If you can’t get it working, full refund.

See the full details and grab your seat

This workshop isn’t for everyone. If you want someone to hand you a list of tools to buy, this isn’t it. If you want the hype OR the doom, you won’t find it here.

But if you’re ready to stop being a consumer of AI and start being a builder? If you want your own Nancy Wilson in your back pocket, so you you can let your own voice shine?

The mine cart is leaving the station. Hop in. It’s going to be a wild ride.

— RJ

P.S. You need a paid LLM subscription to participate (I recommend Claude — yes, I’m biased, and yes, there’s a reason). Everything else, I’ll teach you. Curiosity and willingness to break things are the only prerequisites.