"5 AI workflows Dickie used last week" — @dickiebush & @nicolascole

Why this is in the vault

This weekly digest surfaces three Ship30for30 posts from the prior week. Item 2 is the load-bearing one: Dickie documents 5 specific AI use cases across sales, hiring, content, research, and marketing — including automated sales call grading and on-demand static ad generation — and shares the prompts. Items 1 and 3 are adjacent: Cole's "boring 3-step online business framework" and a curation of 5 AI automation resources aimed at scaling an email ghostwriting agency to $100K/month. The issue represents practitioners reporting actual in-production AI workflows, not theory.

⚠️ Sponsorship

Sponsor: AI Writing Skool — Dickie & Cole's paid Skool community ($X/month, unlisted in email). The PS block and closing CTA pitch membership benefits: live sprints, bootcamp discounts, a custom "AI Cole" model, monthly prompt packs, and weekly AI clinics. This is a recurring self-promotional block present in most Ship30for30 digests. Content items 1–3 are editorially independent of the pitch.

Issue contents

Three curated posts linked out (not reproduced inline):

1. Cole's 3-step online business framework — described as "boring but effective": audience → offer → system. No prompts; framing piece.

2. Dickie's 5 AI workflows with prompts (primary value item) — domains covered:

   • Sales: automated grading of sales calls
   • Hiring: AI-assisted candidate screening (method unspecified in email)
   • Content: production assist (method unspecified)
   • Research: research acceleration (method unspecified)
   • Marketing: generating "10+ static ads on demand" Prompts are in the linked post, not reproduced in the email body.

3. Cole's AI automation resource curation — 5 X Articles curated toward scaling an email ghostwriting agency; highlights include "run your full marketing operation with one AI agent" and "500 Claude prompts that replace a $10K/month agency."

Mapping against Ray Data Co

Strength: medium-strong.

• The sales call grading workflow is directly applicable — RDCO's COO-agent scope includes ops automation, and auto-grading discovery/scoping calls could feed pipeline instrumentation.
• The "500 Claude prompts replace a $10K/month agency" resource (item 3) is worth fetching — if it's a real prompt library, it's a skills-bank shortcut for RDCO's content and ops surface.
• Item 2's marketing domain (static ads on demand) maps to RDCO's paid-ads and content-at-scale ambitions once phData consulting revenue stabilizes and RDCO brand building resumes.
• The 3-step framework (item 1) is generic but consistent with RDCO's current position: audience-building via writing → productized offer → agent-automated system. Not novel, but validates sequencing.
• Gap: the prompts themselves require clicking through to the linked posts. If the workflows are worth testing, the linked content should be fetched and filed separately under a deeper note.

Related

• [[~/rdco-vault/06-reference/ship30for30-writing-frameworks-index]] — running index of Ship30for30 craft and ops notes
• [[~/rdco-vault/02-sops/ai-coo-agent-ops-surface]] — RDCO COO-agent scope; sales call grading would slot here
• [[~/rdco-vault/01-projects/content-strategy/writing-as-product-north-star]] — content-as-product framing relevant to Ship30for30's "digital builder" positioning