The Biggest Goal Podcast

Alane Boyd & Micah Johnson
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The Biggest Goal Podcast, with Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson.  Learn how to reach your biggest goal as we reimagine the workflows you run into scalable systems that use today's latest technology. Every week, we take one real workflow and cover what you're likely doing now and how to improve it with today's latest technology. We'll look at where AI could be applied, what should be automated, and where you still need a person.  Alane and Micah are the co-founders of Biggest Goal. They grew an agency to 600+ active clients before their exit and have since helped 300+ teams put technology to work building scalable systems across every department. (Formerly this podcast was called: Automate Your Agency)

  1. 1h ago

    AI Saves You 2 Hours Per Meeting With This | EP 120

    Every meeting costs you two hours: the prep before and the follow-up after.  Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson walk through the two AI employees that took both off their plates, one that preps every call and one that debriefs it, and why that adds up to 20 hours a week for Micah alone. If your calendar is full of client calls, you already know the drill: digging through email, Slack, the CRM, and project management comments before the call, then copying action items, tasks, and email addresses everywhere after it. Alane and Micah show how a Claude skill connected to the tools you already use does that work, while you decide what matters. In this episode, you'll learn: How the call prep AI employee works, starting from your calendar and ending in a visual summary in under five minutesWhy one skill with connectors gives every person on the team the same consistent prep, for client and internal meetingsWhat the call debrief pulls from a transcript: action items, decisions, upsell opportunities, testimonial quotes and repeated questionsWhy the human review step matters, and how a five-second approval turns into tasks, CRM updates and follow-ups across every platformHow to get follow-up emails drafted, never sent, in Gmail, Outlook or Front with the recipients already filled inWhether you need a skill per account manager or per client, and the one exception where you mightIf meetings eat your week, press play and take back the two hours around every one of them. This episode is brought to you by Biggest Goal, the company Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson co-founded. Fifteen years of scaling their own companies taught them that adoption is a people problem long before it's a technology problem, so we train executives and their teams through workshops, cohorts, mastermind groups, and hands-on support. Want to learn how to scale faster with AI? Sign up for our free LIVE masterclass! Thank you for supporting the podcast!

  2. Oct 26

    The 165 AI Employee Org Chart | EP 119

    Your team can't use an AI employee nobody knows exists. Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson hit that wall with AI employees spread across Claude skills, n8n workflows, artifacts, and scheduled tasks, so they built an AI employee org chart in Claude that pulls every one of them into one place. If your team is building skills and agents faster than anyone can keep track of them, this is where it starts to cost you: people rebuild what already exists, and good work never leaves the person who made it.  The hosts show how the org chart fixed that for them, and what surprised them along the way. In this episode, you'll learn: How Claude inferred their org chart on its own: functional areas, their order from start to finish, and a process map for eachWhy documentation should be an interactive tool, with search, department filters, and one-click launch instead of a spreadsheet nobody opensHow to stop duplicate builds by checking the org chart first and drafting new AI employees only when nothing fitsWhen a personal skill is ready for the whole company, and why 10 to 20% automated beats waiting for perfectThe biggest obstacle when implementing an interactive tool like this.If your AI employees are scattered across tools and team members, press play and see how to bring them into one org chart your whole team can use. This episode is brought to you by Biggest Goal, the company Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson co-founded. Fifteen years of scaling their own companies taught them that adoption is a people problem long before it's a technology problem, so we train executives and their teams through workshops, cohorts, mastermind groups, and hands-on support. Want to learn how to scale faster with AI? Sign up for our free LIVE masterclass! Thank you for supporting the podcast!

  3. Oct 19

    How to save hundreds of hours with Claude's most overlooked feature | EP 118

    Alane Boyd wanted Stripe and QuickBooks in one finance dashboard, and it was quoted as months of development. With a Claude artifact, Alane and Micah built it in under an hour. In this episode, they explain why artifacts might be Claude's most overlooked feature. If you're tired of copying answers out of an AI chat, artifacts are the next step: real interfaces with buttons, filters, and live data that Claude builds for you in minutes. Alane and Micah share the three ways they and their clients use them every day, and the mistake teams make once building them gets easy. In this episode, you'll learn: How to build a working dashboard in about 15 minutes from more than one data source, starting with a rough promptWhy you should keep your data in ClickUp and put an artifact on top as your own command center, synced both waysWhat happens when you share an artifact externally and why connector data stays privateHow to chat with a folder of documents, from SOPs to a 400-page RFP, using cloud storage and an MCP connectorThe biggest obstacle with artifacts and how to decide what actually deserves to become oneIf you want AI tools built around your own work instead of another chat window, press play and build your first artifact today. This episode is brought to you by Biggest Goal, the company Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson co-founded. Fifteen years of scaling their own companies taught them that adoption is a people problem long before it's a technology problem, so we train executives and their teams through workshops, cohorts, mastermind groups, and hands-on support. Want to learn how to scale faster with AI? Sign up for our free LIVE masterclass! Thank you for supporting the podcast!

  4. Oct 12

    How We Use Claude to Build Landing Pages Insanely Fast | EP 117

    One landing page used to take weeks of wireframes, revisions (and arguments), and often never launched (or launched a lesser version). Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson now design pages in Claude Design and ship them to their website in hours, and in this episode they give away the whole process. If you need more leads but can’t spend a month on every page, this is the workflow to copy. The hosts show where the effort still goes, why one prompt is never enough, and how to keep the result from looking like everything else AI makes. In this episode, you’ll learn: The two-ingredient tech stack: the Claude Suite plus a website host with an MCP serverWhy a design system comes first, and how one shared brand kit saves the whole team timeHow to feed Claude context like call transcripts, brochures, and pages you admire, with no formatting requiredHow Claude Design and Claude Code split the work, from a live design to a deployed Webflow page that Claude checks for youWhy designing in Claude Design beats prompting Claude Code for every small visual changeIf your landing pages are stuck in a months-long loop, press play and steal the playbook. This episode is brought to you by Biggest Goal, the company Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson co-founded. Fifteen years of scaling their own companies taught them that adoption is a people problem long before it's a technology problem, so we train executives and their teams through workshops, cohorts, mastermind groups, and hands-on support. Want to learn how to scale faster with AI? Sign up for our free LIVE masterclass! Thank you for supporting the podcast!

  5. Oct 5

    Part 2: Use Claude to Find Your Audience's Pain Points | EP 116

    Your CRM was built to run a sales pipeline, not to answer marketing questions. Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson open up the five tools behind their 300+ leads a month and show why adding a database beside the CRM turned a slow, token-hungry search into a five-second answer from Claude. If you have ever asked an AI tool about your leads and watched it pull deals, then contacts, then notes, then give you something vague, this episode explains why. The hosts cover the full stack, from the AI note taker on every sales call to the automation that catches each form fill and booking. In this episode, you’ll learn: How to pick an AI recorder that Claude Cowork can read through a native connector or MCP serverWhy the CRM and the database get different jobs, with sales in one and marketing analysis in the otherWhat makes Supabase a fit for Claude, and where Airtable falls shortWhen to use n8n instead of Claude for anything that waits on a triggerThree questions worth asking Claude once your lead data sits in one placeIf your lead data lives in a CRM and you want real answers from it, press play to see how the stack fits together. MarkView loaded successfully! This episode is brought to you by Biggest Goal, the company Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson co-founded. Fifteen years of scaling their own companies taught them that adoption is a people problem long before it's a technology problem, so we train executives and their teams through workshops, cohorts, mastermind groups, and hands-on support. Want to learn how to scale faster with AI? Sign up for our free LIVE masterclass! Thank you for supporting the podcast!

  6. Sep 28

    Part 1: Claude-powered Marketing Systems that Bring in 100s of Leads | EP 115

    Three landing pages in six months used to be a good year for Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson. With a Claude-powered marketing system, they have published more than 70 in a few months, and it now brings in about 300 leads a month. In this episode, they walk through the whole system, one element at a time. If you have no marketing team and still need more leads, this is the conversation to hear. The hosts show where Claude does the building, where they still make every call, and why the hard part of marketing moved instead of disappearing. In this episode, you’ll learn: How to find the problems your leads actually have by giving Claude your sales call transcripts and lead form answersWhy one homepage for all your traffic fails and how templates in Claude Design make a page per problem practicalHow Claude Code publishes to Webflow with a preview for your approval before anything goes liveHow to build ads from the page you just published using skills in Claude Cowork, starting with Google AdsWhy a separate lead database changed everything, and why it started as the crappiest possible versionWhere your effort should go now that the build takes minutesIf you want a marketing engine without hiring a marketing department, press play and start with the system the hosts run every day. This episode is brought to you by Biggest Goal, the company Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson co-founded. Fifteen years of scaling their own companies taught them that adoption is a people problem long before it's a technology problem, so we train executives and their teams through workshops, cohorts, mastermind groups, and hands-on support. Want to learn how to scale faster with AI? Sign up for our free LIVE masterclass! Thank you for supporting the podcast!

  7. Sep 21

    Use Claude Design and Stop Building Slide Decks by Hand | EP 114

    Building a slide deck by hand has been a time-consuming endeavor, until now.  Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson break down how to connect Claude to the systems that hold your data, pull the information, analyze it, and then create an on-brand, template-powered slide deck in minutes, not hours. If you're currently creating slide decks by exporting reports, reformatting numbers, fighting a master slide, and then emailing a PowerPoint file around for feedback, this episode is for you.  In this episode, you’ll learn: Why the manual part is the data, not the design, and how connectors remove itWhat a design system actually is, described as a fancy way of saying your brand guidelinesHow to turn a call transcript into a deck instead of starting from numbers every timeWhat to say to a design team that does not want to hand over the templateHow to get feedback with Claude Design using in-context comments that pass straight back to ClaudeHow a 60-slide deck was fully animated with a single prompt and no editsThe episode also debuts the "BO Report" (Biggest Obstacle), a new closing segment on the biggest obstacle that teams face related to the episode topic. This episode is brought to you by Biggest Goal, the company Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson co-founded. Fifteen years of scaling their own companies taught them that adoption is a people problem long before it's a technology problem, so we train executives and their teams through workshops, cohorts, mastermind groups, and hands-on support. Want to learn how to scale faster with AI? Sign up for our free LIVE masterclass! Thank you for supporting the podcast!

  8. Sep 14

    AI bank reconciliation in 10 minutes | EP 113

    Bank reconciliation is the task everyone wants to automate, and before today's AI tech, nobody could. Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson explain why it stayed manual for so long, then walk through the exact prompt that turns eight to ten hours of line-item matching into a short 10 min review. When you export your statements from your bank and QuickBooks (or another accounting platform), there are no matching IDs, no shared descriptions, and nothing a traditional automation could key off; somebody had to sit down and compare them line by line, and that somebody was expensive. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why rules-based automation could never reconcile your books and what changed when AI could read AWS, Amazon Web Services, and Amazon Web SVCS as one vendorThe three-rule starting prompt that matches on description, amount, and a three-day date windowHow to read the exceptions when AI explains that a check has not cleared or a bank fee has not hit QuickBooks yetHow to turn the first run into a reusable skill so you never re-explain your setup againWhere the human stays in the loop, because the matching is low-value work and the exceptions are notHow the same approach applies to investment property statements, media buys, and anything else with two lists that should agreeReconciliation might be a boring task, but that's exactly why it is a great place to point AI first. Press play and start automating your reconciliation workflow this week. This episode is brought to you by Biggest Goal, the company Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson co-founded. Fifteen years of scaling their own companies taught them that adoption is a people problem long before it's a technology problem, so we train executives and their teams through workshops, cohorts, mastermind groups, and hands-on support. Want to learn how to scale faster with AI? Sign up for our free LIVE masterclass! Thank you for supporting the podcast!

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The Biggest Goal Podcast, with Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson.  Learn how to reach your biggest goal as we reimagine the workflows you run into scalable systems that use today's latest technology. Every week, we take one real workflow and cover what you're likely doing now and how to improve it with today's latest technology. We'll look at where AI could be applied, what should be automated, and where you still need a person.  Alane and Micah are the co-founders of Biggest Goal. They grew an agency to 600+ active clients before their exit and have since helped 300+ teams put technology to work building scalable systems across every department. (Formerly this podcast was called: Automate Your Agency)

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  • Creator
    Alane Boyd & Micah Johnson
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    122
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    © 2026 Biggest Goal
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