Well, I’m glad you asked…..read on to find out how!
How it all started
Like many business owners, I started off working for someone else in the corporate world.
After 25 years in that life, I decided (I use the term “decided” very loosely) that it was time to get out and create my own story, rather than simply playing a minor character in everyone else’s.
Using my history in people management, business strategy and cultural building, I founded Bizualize toward the end of 2022. With a mission to help businesses understand the core of what their business was all about, I built the Business Soul Discovery program.
This program helps business owners and leaders understand and communicate their own unique narrative focused on what they do, what they will achieve for their customers and how their customers will benefit from achieving those goals. The program did very well; but there was one challenge…..turning it into an online program that was not limited in features like the currently available course building and hosting solutions.
The big question was, how do I create an online based version of a program that is 90% conversation between my clients and I?
I couldn’t write a manual. Interactive courses are a bit better; but there is no spontaneous conversation. Videos – forget it, that’s just an animated manual. I had a very specific way of approaching and interpreting what my customers were saying to me – there was no way that could be replicated….even a bit!
The OMG moment – but where to start?
Then on January 23rd 2023 at 4:35pm (not to be too specific), I saw a video on youtube about Chat GPT – I am absolutely tech obsessed and so this drew me in immediately. Twenty minutes later I was signed up with a free (there were no paid options then) ChatGPT account and on the path to creating my own online program.
First stop, find an online course to learn this technology…….”hmmmm….none available as the tech has only been in the wild just over a month.”
“Ok, looks like I need to do this myself.”
The Learning Curve
Over the next 8 months I spent well over 600 hours learning, testing, experimenting making mistakes and ultimately building a skillset in working with AI, from a strategic perspective. Until one day…I had a process that I could run inside Chat GPT.
Still more problems – it took me 35 minutes to get all of the prompts loaded into ChatGPT before I could do any work.
Then…….in early November 2023 Custom GPTs arrived on the scene. I realised very quickly that I had already build one, so in less than an hour my first custom GPT was built and operational. I had my online version of the Business Soul Discovery program!
After a few run-throughs with clients using the new CustomGPT, I began to get requests from existing and new customers asking for help to build their own tools. Others wanted to learn the skills needed to work effectively with the technology – this sparked an exciting new idea.
SoulCraftAI – Co-Created with my Customers
I had never doubted that AI was important since the moment I first laid eyes on it, whereas many people I spoke to were really struggling with it. They had tried the LinkedIn articles, the web copy etc etc, and had the generic “AI content” come back. The next stop was usually “well, that didn’t work…so what does it do?” Meanwhile they saw other people talking about it’s incredible potential and achieving outcomes….so what gives? Why was I never in doubt while so many struggled to see the point and get started?
Then I realised, I had a goal, a target and a use for it from day 1. There was a single task in my business that I wanted to improve – I wanted to reduce Business Soul Discovery from four 90 minute sessions at $2k to something more accessible. The end result was one 90 minute session at $350….so I’d say I got my outcome.
It was this very first step that solidified my strategy and set me on the right path, after that curiosity took over. I have since built close to 70 tools to help me do things in my personal and business life, and help my customers achieve outcomes in their businesses.
Here’s the thing though, at it’s core…AI is a truly democratised technology. This means it’s available to anyone – AI in a business sense is not a product, it’s a tool that requires an accompanying skillset just like learning to use a computer. In the spirit of this democratisation, I want to spread the skillset, not keep it to myself.
So here we are – from values or Business Soul to AI with Soul.
SoulCraftAI is live and growing rapidly……enjoy!
Cheers,
Adam Walsh
Founder- Bizualize/SoulCraftAI
