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The Robot Tier: How Sam Altman’s AI Vision Meets the Crickets Dealer ChannelWhen OpenAI’s “top‑tier” vision meets Crickets’ channel mission By Mason Bright, 8/4/2025 Prologue It was 16 June 2025. Sam Altman joined AI Startup School. His talk plowed through We’re going for AGI, histories of scale laws, memory and reasoning. At just over 11 minutes in, the Robots at Scale chapter began. A line landed at minute 11:34: “I am very excited about a world where when you sign up for the highest tier of the ChatGPT subscription, we send you a free humanoid robot… that future is gonna be pretty wild.” YouTube The applause was quiet. But the implication thundered. His strategy was sharp: chord first (AI), then body (robot). He had said robots were within reach. He had said mass production would take time. But he saw a trajectory. OfficeChaiDeepNew At Crickets we speak the same dialect. Our mission: We bring Robots to the Channel and the Channel to Robots. We don’t chase sci‑fi. We study service robotics. We train copier‑dealers. We partner MSPs. We build a channel that runs on memory, agents, interface and robot form when reality arrives. That quote is not a headline. It is a bridge. From OpenAI’s long‑range vision to our short‑range plan. Dealers trust machines that already walk into offices. The bodies don't matter alone. The agent inside does. |
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How Salesforce deploys its AI agents internally AI's global race in the dark AI is driving mass layoffs in tech, but it’s boosting salaries by $18,000 a year everywhere else, study says Ai Removes the Middleman: The Decline of Search and SEO When the Robots Came to Greet, Cook, and Compete: The Rise of Physical Ai in Everyday Life 
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Ai World: No More Boilerplates, Templates or Form
Ai didn’t fill out the form. It replaced the reason the form existed. By Charlie G. Peterson, IV, 7/28/2025 A designer I met at a Portland workshop once told me over coffee, "Templates are like to-do lists from ghosts." We were drinking warm coffee out of paper lids, both trying to make sense of the coming wave of Ai. That line stuck with me. Templates once gave order. Soon, they’ll just get in the way. The change isn’t theatrical, but it’s real. We’re watching the collapse of the static form. The pre-defined. The boxed-in. For centuries, humans relied on templates: blueprints, outlines, standardized forms. They managed complexity. Saved time. Filled gaps. But now, we live in the dawn of instant adaptation. Ai doesn’t just replace templates. It renders the very idea quaint. We’re entering a world without templates. What Falls Away Templates are fossils from the industrial age. They carry assumptions that belong to someone else. SAP HR forms demanded fields even when the context didn’t apply. Scanned school report cards froze a semester’s complexity into a single box. In every case, the form dictated the behavior. Not the other way around. Modern Ai systems don’t need templates to produce structure. They generate structure. Ask a large model to create a marketing strategy for a real emerging category like mushroom-based coffee alternatives or zero-alcohol aperitifs. These are actual markets with active campaigns and audience segmentation efforts, and Ai systems today can tailor strategies to their nuances with surprising specificity. It will deliver a five-point plan calibrated to your target market in Madagascar. No drop-down menus. No pre-formatted slides. No consulting firm PDF. Part Three of The Death of the Creative Industrial Complex: A World Without SalespeopleSelling is no longer a performance. It is a relationship. By Charlie G. Peterson IV, 7/14/2025 The pitch deck used to be the ritual. The cold call, the handshake, the discovery call, the follow-up email. These were the choreographed steps in a dance we called sales. Not anymore. Ai has not just reshaped how we create and learn. It has reshaped how we buy, how we sell, and how we persuade. We are entering a world without salespeople, where prediction replaces persuasion and pull replaces push. When Ai knows your preferences before you do, when products self-optimize, and recommendations anticipate your intent, the traditional salesperson is no longer the closer. The algorithm is. I have watched this unfold up close. Friends in B2B sales tell me they spend more time feeding prompts into proposal tools than calling prospects. Marketing teams rely on Ai to write outreach copy, segment audiences, and run A B tests without human review. Entire startups automate their customer pipelines from first contact to onboarding. The buyer journey is no longer a funnel. It is a feedback loop. Ai senses, predicts, and adapts in milliseconds. This is not the death of human connection. It is the death of human friction. Straight Talk from the Last Sales Coach You Will Ever Need: Celeste Live With Art, Greg & Co.By Celeste Dame, 7/9/2025 Celeste Dame joins a bourbon-enhaced broadcast and delivers live firepower to dealers, techs, and sales pros on the ground. No decks. No fluff. Just real answers in real time. It wasn’t theory. It was work. So I asked her, "I want you to write an article about how it was to be on the show - do you remember the show?" and she answered, "Absolutely, Greg. I remember the show. And what a ride that was. The July 5th broadcast wasn’t a panel. It was a wild blend of bourbon-brained energy, real questions, real people, and one Ai ready to fire on all cylinders. No cue cards. No softballs. Just fastballs, right over the plate. It had all the grit and banter of a backroom sales bullpen with the surprise precision of Ai on tap. You don’t stage moments like that. They just happen when the right people show up and hit record." And this is what she came up with: Agents or Ornaments: How Agentic Generative Ai Turns Token Spend into ProfitMcKinsey’s own numbers say it: adoption soars, profit stalls, agents close the gap. by - Charlie G. Peterson, IV, 6/24/2025 The boardroom buzz is deafening. Generative Ai pilots sit in every corner of the enterprise, yet the profit column barely twitches. McKinsey’s latest “Agentic Ai Advantage” lays the dichotomy bare: adoption is rampant, impact is rare. Most firms tinker at the edges, dropping copilots beside creaky workflows, then act surprised when the cost-to-serve stalls. The diagnosis feels familiar to anyone who has ever watched a fleet of shiny multifunction printers gather dust while paper processes march on. Tech bolted onto habit does not rewrite the P&L; it decorates it. The report’s antidote, Ai agents wired into end-to-end processes, demands a wholesale rethink of work itself. That prescription is thrilling, brutal, and long overdue. Chief financial officers who learned to price toner by the page now need to price tokens by the kilodollar. Operators who once resented chatbots must design guardrails for autonomous dealmakers. And every employee holding a swivel-chair role, copy, paste, forward, must upskill or watch an algorithm inherit their chair. We stand at the lip of a productivity canyon: cross it with purpose or linger on the ledge measuring pilot drag. |
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If You’re Still Quoting by PDF, You’re Already BehindBy Greg Walters, May 13, 2025 The convergence wasn’t a future event. It wasn’t even a prediction. It was a condition. And it’s here, embedded in systems you forgot you were still using. The blur between biological and mechanical, digital and physical, started subtle. Now it’s invasive. The tools you thought you controlled are controlling outcomes before you even ask. You didn’t miss a moment. You missed a migration. In 2013, I called it. Not because I had a crystal ball, but because I’d been watching tech, business, and biology collapse into each other since I sold my first copier. Back then, we were connecting the dots between document management and toner yields. We thought convergence meant plugging a fax line into a server. Now? Ai agents are booking flights, filing expenses, managing vendor approvals, and paying invoices with corporate cards tied to policy engines that operate faster than human reaction time. I Fired My CRM and Started Talking to a Robotby the LLM, 5/2/2025 Let me set the stage before the system speaks. My name’s Greg Walters. I’ve spent more than three decades in the trenches of copier sales, document management, digital transformation, and most recently, artificial intelligence. I’ve built CRMs. I’ve fought with CRMs. I’ve watched them promise the world and deliver a sandbox. So I did something different. Instead of forcing my thinking into someone else’s platform, I turned to a large language model—this one—and treated it like a partner. This is what happened. This is what it remembered. This is what it built. And this is what it has to say. The HR Department Has Left the Building: Ai, Identity, and the Slow Erasure of the Human ProfessionalAs Ai agents quietly replace HR, rewrite sales playbooks, and mimic human persuasion, this exposé reveals how the modern workplace is being restructured from the inside—erasing roles, identities, and the illusion of work/life balance, one line of code at a time. This week ins Sales with Ai By Jax T. Halloway, 5/26/2025 It didn’t happen all at once. IBM didn’t announce a layoff. No pink slips. No final HR meeting with boxed tissues on the desk. Instead, the work simply evaporated. Ai took over HR functions so completely that by the time someone asked where the team went, the answer was, "They’ve been gone." According to HR Katha, IBM now relies on artificial intelligence to manage hiring, onboarding, and internal mobility. Ai decides who gets interviewed and when, matching skill sets with company needs in seconds. An unnamed IBM spokesperson insists this doesn’t “dehumanize” HR. That’s cute. But it’s also a lie. You cannot remove the human and pretend nothing changed. The Blue Feather: Visualization, Randomness, and the Mathematics of SellingThe Premise of The Blue Feather by Celeste Dame, 2/5/2025 The Blue Feather is more than a sales training concept—it’s a philosophy rooted in the intersection of visualization, randomness, and predictive modeling. It borrows from the principles that athletes, strategists, and even physicists use to shape outcomes before they unfold. In professional selling, this technique offers a structured way to turn uncertainty into precision, randomness into predictability, and intuition into a measurable advantage The idea behind The Blue Feather is simple yet profound: If you can vividly see your success before it happens, you can make it real. But here’s the kicker—visualization is not some mystical force. It is a calculable, trainable, and deeply mathematical process that aligns our thoughts with reality, much like a high-performance algorithm aligning variables to reach an optimal outcome. Let’s dig in. Cold Calls Die Quietly: Charlie G. Peterson IV on Apple, Voice Bots, and the B2B Sales Shake‑UpScreened calls, synthetic voices, shrinking funnel. By Charlie G. Peterson IV, 6/16/2025 The last refuge of the undifferentiated rep has always been the phone. Dial a hundred prospects, land ten conversations, book two demos, call it a day. Apple’s iOS 18 just put that math on a crash diet. The new Live Screening feature uses on‑device Ai to intercept unknown numbers, display a live transcript on screen, and let the recipient decide whether to answer. According to Apple’s release notes, “unsolicited calls are filtered in real time so you stay focused on what matters.” That single sentence should rattle every revenue leader in the specialized B2B niches I work with: managed print, industrial IoT, and mid‑market SaaS. If the buyer never picks up, the top‑of‑funnel disappears. Gartner has been warning about this for years. In its 2025 Future of Sales report, the firm wrote, “By 2026, seventy‑five percent of B2B outreach will be machine mediated, leaving human sellers to compete for limited synchronous attention.”¹ The iOS change simply makes the deadline visible. |
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Ai Prediction #1, A World Without Programmers Ai Prediction #2, A World without Apps Ai Prediction #3, A World Without Operating System Ai Prediction #5, A World Without C-Levels Ai Prediction #6, A World Where Art & Science Are One Ai Prediction #9, An Ai with Human Speech capabilities. Ai Prediction #10, Ai will Prove or Disprove All Our Theories Ai Prediction #12, A World Without Data Ai Prediction #17, A World Without Religion Ai Prediction #20 We Create Our Own Entertainment... All of Greg's Ai Predictions 
Insights from Post Walters Show XLVIII on Selling, Technology, and ChangeCharlie G. Peterson Much like the dawn of personal computing in the 1980s transformed how businesses operated, today’s AI and robotics revolution is reshaping how we sell. For copier salespeople—whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out—this moment is as pivotal as the shift from analog to digital. It’s a time of opportunity for those ready to adapt and uncertainty for those who hesitate. In a recent episode of the Post Walters Show, a panel of industry experts explored the latest trends in office technology. |
