Anyone else feel like they give better advice to others than they do themselves?
I've always felt this way.
When it's my own decision, things can get clouded. Too much context, too much noise, too much attachment to the outcome.
But when someone brings me a business problem, it usually doesn't take long to see the root issue and a path forward.
This is a really useful, entry-level way of using AI.
Not as an oracle.
And not to spoon-feed answers or instructions.
Just as a thought partner that can check blind spots and cut through noise when you're deep in the details.
I set up a Claude project as a Business Coach with 30 years of founder/operator experience. When I feel stuck or unclear on next steps, it has a surprisingly strong hit rate of giving me a question, angle, or reframe that creates real progress.
Take it a step further by building a "roundtable" of different perspectives to pressure-test your thinking. A skeptical CFO, a growth-crazy CMO, your favorite EPL coach.
There's a useful layer between using AI to write emails, and building a fully agentic army to run your entire business.