Building with imaginAction

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Building with ImaginAction is a business development podcast exploring the systems, strategies, and technologies behind modern companies. Hosted by GB and brought to you by Levonis.AI, each episode breaks down practical approaches to business growth, operational thinking, AI implementation, product development, automation, and execution — without the hype. From building smarter workflows and scalable systems to refining offers, positioning, and decision-making, this podcast is designed for founders, operators, creators, and business owners who want actionable insights they can apply immediately. No interviews. No noise. Just focused conversations on building better businesses in the age of AI.

Episodes

  1. Jul 3

    New Project Manager Updates

    We have just released new features inside the Project Manager dashboard at Levonis.ai We now have standard project and task templates.  When you start a new project in most other project management tools, you have a blank screen. You then type out a bunch of repetitive entries from scratch. To make things a bit easier, we have built template features directly into the main user dashboard. Below your live Projects on the screen, you will now see new sections for Project Templates and Task Templates.  The project templates calculate your deadlines automatically. When you deploy one of the blueprints—like our e-commerce store build, landing page launch, or business entity setup, it will start with today's date and cleanly build out a standard timeline for the defined tasks. The main idea here is to save you time creating a dozen or so new tasks, and each individual card is completely editable so you can adjust them to fit your needs. We also added templates for small, individual tasks. Tapping one instantly fills in your description text boxes and pre-populates a clear checklist for your definition of done. We have got standard templates active for onboarding external freelancers safely, writing terms or privacy compliance guidelines, and pushing software updates. As you know Levonis.ai is a work in progress. We’ll be updating these features more and more. Check it all out at Levonis.ai and let us know what you think.

    New Project Manager Updates

  2. Jul 2

    The No BS Project Manager

    I spent a whole year studying project management and got the formal qualification. The biggest thing I walked away with? A realization that corporate theory is the absolute master of taking simple ideas and burying them under a mountain of nightmare complexity. In this episode, we slice right through the 600-page textbooks, the pointless morning meetings, and the dumb industrial jargon. Whether you’re a builder, a trade business, a solopreneur, or an experienced project manager looking to ditch the heavy price tags, you don't need a diploma to get things done—you just need basic common sense and a few simple tools. Tune in to hear the zero-fluff philosophy behind how we built our new tracking workspace and how five minutes of clean organization can save you a year of academic study. What We Cover in This Episode: The 600-Page Problem: Why massive reference texts serve corporate bureaucracies instead of active operators who just need to ship work.Runway vs. Sprint Styles: Breaking down the only two project methodologies you actually need to know (minus the fancy textbook words).The Critical Path: Why we threw out multi-tier priority settings for a simple, single-click red alert system when tasks slip.Who This Is For: Why new operators, small business owners, and seasoned PMs can all use a clean tracking layout to protect their timelines without the massive platform price tags.Links & Resources Mentioned: Deploy Your Boardroom: Get your ideas out of your head and into a clean, visual tracking workspace over at Levonis.ai.Subscribe to the Show: Make sure to follow Building with imaginAction on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an unpolished, operator-focused brief.

    The No BS Project Manager

  3. Jun 26

    The 87% Rule: Letting Go of the Boring Work

    In this episode of Building with imaginAction, we look at a recent white paper published by the Harvard Business Review on how modern software teams are using artificial intelligence. While the data is aimed at massive enterprise corporations with budgets to match, it carries a vital lesson for solo builders and small business operators. A recent McKinsey study highlighted in the paper revealed that 87% of developers using generative AI felt they could focus on more satisfying, high-value, and meaningful work—compared to just 50% of those who weren't using the technology. The reason for this massive gap isn't that a machine is doing the high-level thinking. It’s because technology is taking away the tedious, repetitive, mind-numbing administrative legwork—like drafting standard templates, setting up frameworks, and manual data-entry. This episode breaks down how you can apply this exact concept to your own business project using the five platform experts inside Levonis to handle the heavy lifting, clear the noise off your screen, and put you back in control of your high-level strategy. What you'll learn in this episode: The 87% Study: Why developers using AI tools are significantly happier and moving faster than those stuck doing manual administrative tasks.The True Friction in New Ideas: Why it’s rarely the big, creative vision that stalls a solo operator, but the boring administrative legwork.Outsourcing the Heavy Lifting: How using specialized roles for your project management, marketing, operations, compliance, and tech needs keeps you out of burnout.Head over to Levonis.ai to see how it works for your own project.

    The 87% Rule: Letting Go of the Boring Work

  4. Jun 24

    The Rule of Three: Cutting the Crap out of Your To-Do List

    We’ve all done it: sat down with a fresh notepad, listed a dozen major goals, and promised ourselves this time would be different. Then life gets in the way, progress stalls, and that massive checklist ends up causing more overwhelm than execution. When everything is a priority, nothing actually is. In this episode of Building with imaginAction, we break down why endless to-do lists fail and look at the practical, down-to-earth science behind cutting through the clutter. By looking at real-world tech development frameworks and Dr. Nelson Cowan's landmark working memory research, we explain why "The Rule of Three" is the ultimate sweet spot for your daily routine. You'll learn how to stop fighting decision fatigue, protect your focus, and pick the three defining plays that make every single day an absolute win. We also share a quick update on the new, zero-guilt Action Plan tracking grid live inside Levonis.ai—the AI product development team built to support your business builds.

    The Rule of Three: Cutting the Crap out of Your To-Do List

  5. May 24

    Turning an Idea Into an Action Plan. Part 1

    In this episode of Building with imaginAction, Michael pulls you into a live sandbox session to deconstruct a hypothetical business idea: a subscription-based bio-friendly personal care brand. Instead of preaching abstract theories, Michael runs the concept through Levonis.ai to demonstrate three practical ways to get the ball rolling immediately. You'll see how the tool instantly maps out a 14-day validation sprint, executes a competitive visual audit against local leaders like Zero Co, and uncovers a brilliant white-label strategy using low-MOQ Australian suppliers to keep your upfront costs under a thousand dollars. The full, unedited prompts and text responses generated in this session are available to read, copy, and use for your own ideas over on our blog at Levonis.ai. What you’ll learn in this episode: The 14-Day "Smoke Test" Prompt: The exact phrasing to force a physical product concept into the Four Ones framework to test real market liquidity in a fortnight.The Counter-Appeal Trap: Why product differentiation in the mature Australian eco-market comes down to premium "counter-appeal" aesthetics rather than just being green.Low-Budget Local Sourcing: How to bypass international freight nightmares by leveraging private-label and wholesale suppliers right here in Australia.The White-Label Pivot: How using a simple branding stamp or local sticker printer can save you five thousand dollars in custom manufacturing runs.Connect with us: Check out Levonis.ai—the AI product development tool in your pocket. It is built with a team of experts. They are your team of experts, that will help you through all of this. It’s your sounding board, your marketing department and your tech guy all in one. Check out Levonis.ai then I’ll see you in the next episode.

    Turning an Idea Into an Action Plan. Part 1

  6. May 21

    After the First Sale — Managing the Delivery Bit

    Most business shows focus entirely on the glamour of closing the deal. They skip over the part where the rubber actually meets the road: delivering the promised result cleanly without an enterprise system backing you up. There is a massive illusion that everything needs to be automated from day one. But when you are dealing with your very first pilot clients, your absolute superpower is the fact that you can do things that don't scale. Your goal right now isn't to manage a thousand people; it’s to get a flawless, undeniable result for one real person so you can use their success as your permanent proof. In this final episode of our introductory series on Building with imaginAction, Guy maps out a Minimum Viable Delivery system using nothing more than a shared spreadsheet, your inbox, and a disciplined communication schedule. Stop worrying about scale, embrace the manual work, and turn your first client into a bulletproof case study. What you’ll learn in this episode: The Post-Sale Reality: Why the shift from selling to executing causes immediate panic, and how to treat your initial manual workflow as a feature, not a bug.The Communication Cadence: How to eliminate frantic, late-night client messages by establishing a predictable, non-negotiable weekly update schedule on day one.The Central Worksheet: Why you must banish scattered email threads and establish a single, shared document as the absolute source of truth for the project.Extracting the True Asset: The three structural before-and-after questions you must ask on day 30 to let your first successful client write your future sales copy for you.Connect with us: Check out Levonis.ai—the AI product development tool in your pocket. It is built with a team of experts. They are your team of experts, that will help you through all of this. It’s your sounding board, your marketing department and your tech guy all in one. Check out Levonis.ai then I’ll see you in the next episode.

    After the First Sale — Managing the Delivery Bit

  7. May 20

    5 Beginner Traps That Kill Your First Business

    Most independent business assets don't fail because the underlying idea was fundamentally broken. They fail because the operator spent all of their time, capital, and focused energy solving complex problems that didn't exist yet. It is incredibly easy to fool yourself into thinking you are making progress when you are actually just choosing safe, low-risk tasks that protect you from market rejection. Tweaking a logo, recording a 20-hour course before making a sale, or writing endless public content are often just comfortable hiding spots. In this episode of Building with imaginAction, we strip away the sophisticated procrastination and force a strict audit of your calendar. If you want your project to survive, you need to stop playing dress-up and start executing the baseline mechanics. What you’ll learn in this episode: The Branding Shelter: Why your brand doesn't actually exist until you have consistent revenue, and why design choices are often used as a shield.The "Just One More Feature" Fallacy: The danger of building a massive solution before verifying demand, and why delivering a service manually is your ultimate feedback loop.Hiding Behind Content: Why direct, peer-to-peer outreach gives you hard market facts in 48 hours while content creation lets you hide from a definitive "no."Over-Engineering Architecture: Why you don't need expensive CRM software or automated funnels to manage a client registry that is currently empty.The Wrong Feedback Loops: Why asking family and mates for business validation yields completely corrupted data.Connect with us: Check out Levonis.ai—the AI product development tool in your pocket. It is built with a team of experts. They are your team of experts, that will help you through all of this. It’s your sounding board, your marketing department and your tech guy all in one. Check out Levonis.ai then I’ll see you in the next episode.

    5 Beginner Traps That Kill Your First Business

  8. May 20

    Pricing for Beginners — Stop Guessing and Pick a Number

    When you sit down to write your first one-page business offer, you will inevitably hit a major psychological speed bump: Pricing. It is incredibly easy to get stuck in a loop of overthinking—staring at spreadsheets, worrying about being "too expensive," or blindly copying what your competitors are charging. But trying to guess the perfect theoretical price before you've even made a sale is a fool's errand. In the early stages of building a business asset, your price is not a reflection of your self-worth. It is simply an operational variable. In this episode of Building with imaginAction, Guy breaks down a zero-nonsense method to bound your pricing using a simple pen-and-paper framework. Stop playing guessing games based on other people's guesswork, put a number on the screen, and let the market tell you the truth. What you’ll learn in this episode: Why traditional pricing models fail first-timers: The traps of using "cost-plus" time tracking for services and the hidden dangers of blindly copying your competitors' back-end economics.The Floor and Ceiling Framework: How to establish your absolute "don't bother" financial floor alongside your maximum "straight face" psychological ceiling.The One-Price Rule: Why you must pitch a single, fixed number to your initial prospects without discounts, custom proposals, or negotiations.How to read market feedback: How to recognize if you are too cheap, if you've hit a hard ceiling, or if you actually have a problem-severity issue rather than a pricing issue.Check out Levonis.ai—the AI product development tool in your pocket. It is built with a team of experts. They are your team of experts, that will help you through all of this. It’s your sounding board, your marketing department and your tech guy all in one. Check out Levonis.ai then I’ll see you in the next episode.

    Pricing for Beginners — Stop Guessing and Pick a Number

  9. May 20

    Idea to First Sale in 14 Days — The Smallest Possible Launch

    A lot of people think launching a business requires a massive marketing campaign, a polished brand, and a big public reveal. That is how massive corporations do it because they have money to burn. For a solo operator, a launch is something entirely different: it is simply the day you create a functional way for someone to send you money to solve a problem. In this episode, we cut through the over-complication that holds back most thinkers and map out a ruthless 14-day timeline to secure your very first transaction. If you can't make one single sale manually, you don't have a business to scale anyway. Stop waiting for perfect conditions, stop messing with fonts, and get to the mechanics. What you’ll learn in this episode: The Four "Ones" Framework: How to ruthlessly eliminate choices by locking in one specific problem, one fixed offer, one communication channel, and one payment link.Building Micro-Infrastructure: Why a dead-simple, plain-language one-pager beats a multi-page website every day of the week.The Outreach Phase: Transitioning from building to hunting using direct, peer-to-peer contact without spending a cent on ads.Handling Market Reality: How to treat a "yes" as a live asset, and why a "no" or complete silence is actually a massive data win.Brought to you by our AI product development tool: Levonis.ai

    Idea to First Sale in 14 Days — The Smallest Possible Launch

  10. May 20

    What to Sell First, and Why

    If you have a business idea but haven't started yet, you don't need a logo, a website, or a mission statement. You need to decide exactly what you are going to sell first. In this episode, we break down how to choose between a service, a digital product, or a physical product, and share a simple, free framework to validate your concept with real customers in the next seven days without spending a cent. Get in there!Brought to you by Levonis.ai, the advanced business development tool.

    What to Sell First, and Why

  11. May 18

    Trailer: Building with imaginAction

    Welcome to Building with imaginAction — a podcast designed for anyone sitting on a great business idea but stuck on how to actually get it started. You could be the corporate marketer building a new campaign, a business owner trying to level up, or a solo entrepreneur with a smart idea. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with when you think “what do I do now?” We are not going to give you generic AI noise, unnecessary theory, or useless motivational nonsense telling you to dream bigger. You need a structured framework to clear the fog. You don’t need motivation. You need the mechanics. Building with imaginAction isn't an interview show. It’s a series of focused conversations breaking down the systems, strategies, and technologies behind modern business. We explore how to stress-test a raw concept before you risk your own money, how to speak the language of developers so you don't get ripped off, and how to factor in compliance without stalling your smart idea. We focus on taking that tangled mess of thoughts in your head and turning it into smarter workflows, scalable systems, and refined offers that you can execute with confidence. This podcast is brought to you by Levonis.ai — the platform we built to put a complete, specialized product development team right in your pocket. Throughout this series, I'll show you exactly how to apply structure to your ideas, and how to use Levonis A.I. to translate abstract strategy into editable, custom action plans. No fluff. No noise. No B.S.  Hit subscribe, and let’s build something better.

    Trailer: Building with imaginAction

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Building with ImaginAction is a business development podcast exploring the systems, strategies, and technologies behind modern companies. Hosted by GB and brought to you by Levonis.AI, each episode breaks down practical approaches to business growth, operational thinking, AI implementation, product development, automation, and execution — without the hype. From building smarter workflows and scalable systems to refining offers, positioning, and decision-making, this podcast is designed for founders, operators, creators, and business owners who want actionable insights they can apply immediately. No interviews. No noise. Just focused conversations on building better businesses in the age of AI.

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