Nicholas Thorne (@thorneny) is building Squarespace for the AI age. It’s called Audos, and it’s an AI chatbot to help any entrepreneur go from idea to: - Pitch deck - Working website - Custom GPT - User interviews with real customers All in just a few minutes. And he did it using @ChatGPTapp. It’s AI all the way down—and it’s one of the most impressive early AI businesses I’ve ever seen. Nicholas is a good friend of mine and a general partner at @prehype, an incubator that launched @barkbox and @ro. It’s also where I started @Every, so it was great to come full circle. Nicholas’s job at Prehype is to launch new companies. He’s taken everything he’s learned running an incubator and is using it to help entrepreneurs start businesses at scale—with AI. Nicholas tells me that he used @ChatGPTapp to prototype most of Audos’s features—despite being non-technical himself. He shares exactly how he did this by showing me how he’s using AI to create a new feature for the product. We get into: - Ways AI can make you a more effective founder - How to use ChatGPT to build your prototype - Strategies to refine problem statements with AI - Using GPTs to gather and synthesize customer feedback This episode is a must-watch for anyone who has ever toyed with the idea of starting a business—and wants to do it with AI. Watch! ___ Timestamps: Introduction: 00:48 How AI can make you a more effective founder: 12:10 Live demo of Audos! 17:03 Why Nicholas built an AI tool to enable entrepreneurs: 24:07 How Audos puts you in “edit mode” instead of “create mode”: 25:35 Tools to gather customer feedback, generated by Audos: 28:12 How Audos actually works: 32:58 Nicholas uses ChatGPT to prototype a new feature: 35:07 How to establish checks and balances while using ChatGPT: 42:37 AI as a force for pushing entrepreneurship to new heights: 57:20