Leveling Up with Eric Siu

Eric Siu
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Leveling Up is a weekly interview series with entrepreneurs and marketers on the latest in business and marketing. Learn actionable strategies & tactics on how you can make your business grow and mistakes to avoid during your journey. Learn from individuals who have founded billion dollar companies to best-selling authors. Entrepreneur and host Eric Siu also shares insights and learnings along the way.

  1. 2D AGO

    OpenClaw's New "Revenue Agents" Are INSANE

    In this video I break down how we’re building this at Single Grain, how a fleet of agents sits on top of that brain to handle sales, SEO, content, recruiting, and ops, and why memory systems like Obsidian are critical to making it actually work. I also walk through what the first 90 days look like (it’s messy), how this system compounds over time, and real examples of how it’s already driving cost savings, pipeline, and inbound from enterprise companies. Chapters (00:00) What the “world brain” is (00:39) How a single brain connects all your data (01:12) From insights to execution with AI (01:52) The agent fleet running on top (02:32) What the first 3 months look like (03:23) Turning SOPs into AI “skills” (04:08) Fat skills, thin harnesses explained (04:40) Why memory systems matter (Obsidian) (06:09) Infrastructure and local setup (07:21) Agent fleet and sandboxing (08:25) Real-world results and savings (09:37) Why this becomes a massive advantage

    11 min

  2. 6D AGO

    I Just Built A Full Fleet of Revenue Agents Inside My Computer (Full Breakdown)

    👉 Growth Newsletter for top marketers: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe I have 12 AI agents running inside my company right now. They handle sales, content, SEO, and recruiting without my team touching it. One of them even saved me $500K the first time I used it. In this video, I break down the exact playbook my company is using to win with AI, including: ⬛ Singlebrain: revenue agents that run cold email end-to-end, from lead scrubbing to sequences ⬛ Flash: a content repurposing agent that drove 348K views and real pipeline from multi-billion dollar companies ⬛ Oracle: an SEO agent that collaborates with the team inside Slack on workflows ⬛ How to train agents with soul.md, memory.md, and lessons.md for persistence and self-correction ⬛ The 24/7 company: cron jobs firing at 2 a.m. for content ingestion, outbound, and deal resurrection The gap between businesses that get this and the ones still experimenting is opening fast. If you're a founder, leader, or operator who still thinks of AI as a side project, this will change how you think about what's possible inside your company right now. Chapter (00:00) The AI Playbook Winners Use (00:29) Agents That Replaced Real Roles (01:07) Singlebrain Revenue Agents (01:44) Flash: Content Repurposing Agent (02:56) Oracle SEO Agent (03:30) How To Train Your Agents (04:25) Free Open Source AI Skills (04:47) The Real Margin Play (06:00) Building The 24/7 Company (07:02) Intelligence vs Judgment (08:10) Where AI Infrastructure Is Going (09:30) Final Thoughts How to Connect IG: / ericosiu X: / ericosiu 👉 Get 25k Words of AI-Powered SEO Content: https://clickflow.com/ 👉 Growth Newsletter for top marketers: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👉 Single Grain - Ad Agency focused on innovation https://www.singlegrain.com

    11 min

  3. APR 17

    These AI Marketing Skills Repo Will Change Your Business (1.8K Stars)

    👉 Growth Newsletter for top marketers: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe These secret Claude skills are going to generate more revenue for you. This isn't AI theater. One of these skills saved me $500,000 the very first time I used it. In this video, I break down the open-source Claude Code skills repo I'm giving you for free — 21 complete workflows, scoring algorithms, expert panels, and automation pipelines across: ⬛ Growth Engine – autonomous marketing experiments that run, measure, and optimize themselves ⬛ Finance Ops – an AI CFO that finds hidden costs in 30 minutes (this is the one that saved me $500k) ⬛ Outbound Engine – fully automated cold outbound from ICP definition to inbox ⬛ Sales Pipeline, Content Ops, and SEO Ops skills you can plug in today These aren't prompts. They're production-grade systems you can fork into your own repo and run right now. If you're a founder, marketer, or operator who thinks "I don't know how to code" — neither do I. Just hit copy and go. Chapters 00:00 Secret Claude Skills That Print Revenue 00:17 The Free AI GitHub Repo 00:41 21 Skills Across 6 Categories 01:40 Auto Growth Engine Explained 02:46 How To Fork And Use The Repo 04:25 Why You Should Open Source Your Skills 05:00 The AI CFO That Saved Me $500K 06:31 Gross Margin, Runway, And Risk Analysis 07:19 Cold Outbound Optimizer With Expert Panels 08:30 Working With Skills In Slack And Telegram 09:07 How Skill.md Files Actually Work 09:23 The Meme Factory Skill 10:07 Use These Skills Or Fall Behind 10:21 How To Work With AI The Right Way How to Connect IG: /ericosiu X: /ericosiu 👉 Get 25k Words of AI-Powered SEO Content: https://clickflow.com/ 👉 Growth Newsletter for top marketers: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👉 Single Grain - Ad Agency focused on innovation https://www.singlegrain.com

    11 min

  4. APR 13

    If You Don’t Understand Agents, You Don’t Understand AI

    👉 Growth Newsletter for top marketers: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe Everyone's talking about AI, but almost nobody is talking about how to actually use agents. And that's exactly why most people are going to get left behind. In this video, I break down how I'm actually using autonomous agents inside my business right now: ⬛ An agent that crawls conferences and upgrades our SEO scaffolding automatically ⬛ A product-qualified lead agent that surfaces upsell angles from in-app usage ⬛ A CFO agent that helped me cut $500,000 in costs ⬛ How to limit the "blast radius" so agents don't blow up your business If you're a founder or leader and you don't understand how agents actually work, you don't understand where AI is going. This video will change that. Chapters 00:00 Why Most People Will Get Left Behind 00:29 What An Autonomous Agent Actually Is 01:06 Upgrading Our SEO Agent In Real Time 01:48 The Product Qualified Lead Agent 02:29 Unbottlenecking Your Entire Company 02:48 Autonomy vs Risk Tradeoffs 03:10 We're Hiring At Single Grain 03:48 Do You Need To Know How To Code? 04:33 Limiting The Blast Radius 05:24 The CFO Agent That Saved $500K 05:41 This Is Your Business Right Now 06:18 Automate Your Job, Get Paid More How to Connect IG: / ericosiu X: / ericosiu 👉 Get 25k Words of AI-Powered SEO Content: https://clickflow.com/ 👉 Growth Newsletter for top marketers: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👉 Single Grain - Ad Agency focused on innovation https://www.singlegrain.com

    7 min

  5. APR 9

    Getting Customers with AI Just Got Unfair

    👉 Growth Newsletter for top marketers: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe Everyone's still working with AI the old way. In this video, I screen share the real work I'm doing and show you the new way of working that's going to change how you run your business forever. I walk through how I'm using AI to build an entire B2B visitor ID to outbound system in under 10 minutes, something that would normally take developers weeks to ship. Here's what I build live on screen: ⬛ A B2B visitor identification system across three websites ⬛ Automated cold email sequences wired into Instantly ⬛ RB2B + Instantly + HubSpot integration with reply sync ⬛ Suppression pipelines so we don't email existing customers This isn't theory. I'm prompting, reviewing, troubleshooting, and shipping in real time, all through natural language. If you're a founder, operator, or marketer still stuck in the old workflow, this will change how you think about what's possible right now. Chapters 00:00 The New Way of Working With AI 00:19 The B2B Visitor ID to Outbound Spec 01:26 Prompting Alfred to Build the System 02:17 Too Many Threads, Staying Focused 03:01 Answering Clarifying Questions 04:42 Why Context Matters When Planning 05:33 Letting the Agents Work in Parallel 06:13 Reviewing What Got Built 07:10 Clickflow for AEO and SEO 07:28 Spot Checking the Email Sequences 08:14 Hooking RB2B Into Instantly 09:08 Unblocking Myself in Real Time 09:38 Connecting Instantly to HubSpot 10:11 Logging It All in Slack and Google Docs 10:51 The Technology Is Already Here 11:02 Cutting AI Token Costs How to Connect IG: / ericosiu X: / ericosiu 👉 Get 25k Words of AI-Powered SEO Content: https://clickflow.com/ 👉 Growth Newsletter for top marketers: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👉 Single Grain - Ad Agency focused on innovation https://www.singlegrain.com

    12 min

  6. APR 7

    I Took The Risk.. And It Paid Out (Literally)

    👉 Growth Newsletter for top marketers: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe I can't write a line of code. But I have 6 AI agents running inside my business right now — and they're saving me $500k+ in costs while touching live deals, live content, and live client work. In this video, I break down how I built a system where I actually trust my agents: ⬛ Alfred – my AI chief of staff that knows everything about my business ⬛ Oracle – our SEO agent doing strategic scans and execution ⬛ Arrow – our sales agent handling outbound and pipeline ⬛ Cyborg – our recruiting agent ⬛ Flash – our content agent surfacing competitive insights automatically This isn't theory. These agents are live, and I'll show you exactly how I set up the trust infrastructure to make sure they don't go rogue — and how to hand them off to your team so they scale with you. Chapters 00:00 6 AI Agents Running My Business 00:50 Why Trust Infrastructure Is Everything 01:26 Alfred: The AI Chief of Staff Setup 02:06 Minimizing the Blast Radius 03:00 NemoClaw vs OpenClaw for Business 03:07 Meet the Full Agent Stack 04:09 Live Demo: Content Intelligence in Slack 06:02 The Elon Algorithm Experiment 06:21 Upgrading Oracle with Conference Intel 07:20 Cloning Agents for Your Team 07:50 How to Get Started Today 08:55 Where Agents Actually Break 09:52 How to Handle Agent Failures 10:21 Paperclip: Managing Agent Budgets 10:42 Security Risks & Trade-offs 11:10 Cutting Your Token Costs How to Connect IG: / ericosiu X: / ericosiu 👉 Triple Your Pipeline with Revenue Agents: https://www.singlegrain.com 👉 AI-Powered SEO Software: https://clickflow.com/ 👉 Growth Newsletter for top marketers: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe 👉 Single Grain – Ad Agency focused on innovation: https://www.singlegrain.com

    11 min

  7. APR 2

    Your Competitors Are 100xing With This AI

    Single Grain - Ad Agency focused on innovation: https://www.singlegrain.com Growth Newsletter for top marketers: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe

    7 min

  8. MAR 30

    OpenClaw vs Perplexity: Don’t Make the Wrong Bet

    Run personalized LinkedIn ads and landing pages that convert: https://karrot.aiGrowth Newsletter for top marketers: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe

    9 min
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Leveling Up is a weekly interview series with entrepreneurs and marketers on the latest in business and marketing. Learn actionable strategies & tactics on how you can make your business grow and mistakes to avoid during your journey. Learn from individuals who have founded billion dollar companies to best-selling authors. Entrepreneur and host Eric Siu also shares insights and learnings along the way.

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