In today’s newsletter ⬇️

• 🚀 4 AI tools that actually save you hours

• 🗞️ The real headlines, no fluff

• 🤖 The Outreach Playbook That Actually Works in 2025

• 📚 Resources you’ll actually want to click

• 💡 Prompt of the Day — built for builders, not lurkers

🚀 Top Tools To Try This Week!

• Lex – Minimal, distraction-free AI writing for serious writers.

• Descript – Edit videos like a doc + record podcasts + remove filler words.

• Glasp – Highlight and summarize articles as you read them.

• ChatPDF – Chat with any PDF instantly. Great for reports and long docs.

News from The WEST 👈:

• 💰 Perplexity Just Launched a $200/Month Plan
  The AI search darling is going premium — big time. Perplexity dropped a $200/mo “Pro Search” tier targeting researchers, enterprises, and newsrooms.
  If Google wasn’t nervous before, it should be now.
  🔎 Here’s what’s included →

• 🤖 Amazon Deploys Its 1 Millionth Robot & Launches Gen AI Model
  Robots are officially everywhere. Amazon hit a million bots on the ground — from warehouse arms to delivery scouts — and casually dropped a new generative AI model to boot.
  📦 Watch out, OpenAI. Bezos is building too →

• 💸 Elon’s xAI Raises $10 Billion
  xAI just raised a monster $10B in debt + equity to scale Grok and go all-in on agentic AI. Expect more drama, bigger moves, and possibly some alien jokes on Twitter.
  🚀 Peek behind the funding flex →

News from The EAST 👉:

•  🎥 Google Brings Veo 3 Video AI to India & Southeast Asia
  Google’s cinematic AI video generator — Veo 3 — is now available in India and other Asian markets through Gemini. Think: Sora-style visuals, but accessible to creators across the region.
  🎬 See what it can do →

• ☁️ Alibaba Cloud Doubles Down on AI Infra in SEA
  Alibaba Cloud is scaling compute across Southeast Asia, expanding its hyperscale infra in Malaysia and Indonesia. This is a big infrastructure unlock for the region’s AI boom.
  🌏 Full scoop here →

• 🏢 Deloitte Launches Agentic AI Center Across Asia
  Deloitte just launched an Agentic AI Center with hubs in India, Singapore, and Malaysia. The goal? Help companies build and scale AI agents — not just chatbots.
  🧠 Why this move matters →

🤖 The Outreach Playbook That Actually Works in 2025

Your pipeline's leaking.

Manual outreach = burnout. Mass outreach = ignored.

Here’s what’s actually working in 2025:
✅ AI-powered messages that sound human
✅ Smart targeting (start with the end user)
✅ Automated flows that book meetings while you sleep

Clarence scaled to $35K/month with it.

You can too — minus the messy stack.

• How Meta Trained Its New Reasoning AI (and Why It Might Beat ChatGPT)

• Google’s Full Gemini 1.5 Tech Report (1000+ Context Window, Explained Simply)

• Harvard’s Full Research: How AI Is Reshaping Productivity (with Charts)

✍️ Prompt: Give me a 7-day launch plan for this idea → [Paste concept]

“You're a GTM strategist who helps startup founders launch new products with speed, precision, and traction.

Based on the following idea, build a 7-day launch plan that includes daily actions, key tools to use, and outcome goals:

👉 [PASTE PRODUCT OR IDEA HERE]

The plan should:

• Break down each day (Day 1 to Day 7) with specific deliverables

• Include copywriting tasks (e.g., landing page, email, social post)

• Recommend tools (e.g., Framer, Beehive, Tally, Zapier, etc.)

• Include 1–2 growth experiments (referrals, content loops, influencer reach-outs)

• Suggest how to build social proof fast (testimonials, waitlist numbers, case studies)

• Include a feedback loop or validation step

• Be optimized for a solo founder or small team

• Keep the tone clear, fast-moving, and focused on momentum

At the end, give me a checklist to track progress + 3 KPIs to measure launch success."

Whether it’s improving your SEO, launching on platforms like Product Hunt, managing newsletters, or building a strong LinkedIn presence, we’re here to help. Curious to see how we can work together?