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Featured Workflow: Powerful Marketing Agent from Boring Marketer
Boring Marketing has announced the beta release of its new AI-powered marketing agent — a platform designed to simplify and supercharge the marketing workflow for creators, strategists, and brands.
The tool combines an advanced language model with real-time data, brand context, and built-in workflows. Early features include keyword research, competitor gap analysis, social insights, voice-aware content creation, and beginner-friendly strategy tools — all accessible in a single interface.
According to the team, this is positioned as an intelligent agent built to execute real marketing tasks with autonomy, giving users what they call the “vibe marketing easy button.”
More capabilities are expected to roll out in the coming weeks, with the beta currently open to early users. Free tokens are included for testing, with optional early bird pricing for ongoing access.
I haven’t given it a go yet, but I’m curious to check it out. Perhaps I’ll circle back with a tutorial.
Fresh Offering: AI Workshops for Hospitality Businesses
I’m excited to run a workshop for WellingtonNZ next week, with a bunch of owner operators from inner city hospitality businesses. The workshop is framed as “AI for Hospitality 101” where I’ll be giving people a 3-hour crash course on bringing AI tools seamlessly into their business. It’s not totally pro-AI with robot waiters, but more simple tools in the background workflow to reduce stress and free up time.
I’m excited to share more of this kind of offering. If you’re interested in something like this, perhaps we could chat about this Here’s a simple page I put together which explains the workshop in more detail.
Here’s a few interesting AI updates:
China mandates school AI education for kids as young as six years old, to prepare the next generation of technology leaders. Read more.
Google unveiled the Pixel 10 phone with insane AI features such as 100x Zoom on Camera, creating music from a voice memo, real-time voice translation for calls, and more. Check it out.
Grok is outrunning ChatGPT and Claude in some niche ways with their capacity for building chrome extensions, game design, and coding new apps. Here’s a summary.
Manychat can automate your DM’s and comments for managing social easier. It’s next level for freeing up your time and delivering digital products. Watch a tutorial.'
A live, two-way translator inside the Google Translate app just became the most practical AI feature of 2025. Think bilingual back-and-forth with low latency, multiple mic/display modes, and instant text + optional text-to-speech. See more.
Google Releases ‘Nano Banana’ — a Game-Changer for AI Image Editing, where users can generate sharp, detailed images from text, seamlessly edit elements, and maintain consistency across scenes with just a prompt. Give it a go.
Insight: People Are Using ChatGPT for Guided Meditations
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This is a weird one. ChatGPT now has the intuitive capability to run guided meditations for users, using voice mode. I just gave it a go, here’s my quick reflection
It says all the right things (straight spine, relax your shoulders etc, deep breath, etc)
It felt awkward and uncomfortable without much spaciousness or intuitive capacity.
It was able to pick up on my intention (gratitude) and craft a custom meditation around that
It rushed ahead of time, I asked 3mins and it did about 90 secs.
Fundamentally, the AI just lacks the human heart vibration that is the real gift of a human guided meditation.
I have wider reservations about our personal merging of intuitive consciousness with that which is born of a microchip. When we engage in spiritual practice, we are supported by the natural capacity of our own body and mind, and that of those around us. I feel AI is a long way off from feeling like an authentic experience, even if it “sounds” like it on the surface. Personally I have no interest in seeing this aspect of tech evolve, as we already maintain the ancestral intelligence within us to achieve what we’re looking for.
Anyway, more philosophical fun to be had as we merge our reality with AI.
Anyone else having these types of conversations? Get in touch.
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Stay human,
Billy