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Today’s Perspective Shift

From: Scaling tasks
To: Scaling truths

Theme for the Quarter: Intelligent Innovation
Theme for the Week: Designing what outlasts you

✨ In Today’s Episode:

• Why values aren't fluff—they're infrastructure

• A framework to operationalize your values across your systems

• How AI can amplify culture when it knows what you're about

• What it means to build with alignment at the code level

Scale the Values, Not Just the Vision

Build systems that reflect your soul

🧠 ONE Smart Idea

Values aren’t just words on the wall. They’re behavioral constraints.

They shape the choices your company makes in moments that matter—how a deal gets handled, how a customer is treated, how a launch is paced.

What makes them powerful isn’t just having them—it’s embedding them into how the business runs.

When your values are part of your SOPs, hiring criteria, AI prompts, and decision logic…
you’ve gone from talking about culture to scaling it.

📖 Story Spark

One founder I worked with had an amazing instinct for culture.

Her team always felt connected.
Clients loved the vibe.
Everyone moved with a kind of shared rhythm.

But the more she scaled, the more she felt that rhythm starting to fray.

It wasn’t a people problem.
It was a clarity gap.

So we got to work.

We turned her values into filter questions.
Each one became a prompt inside her onboarding, her hiring templates, and even her internal dashboards.

One prompt asked:

That single value, written into ops, changed the trajectory of their product roadmap.

Not because of pressure.
Because of alignment.

⚙️ Tactical Application: Operationalize Your Values in 4 Touchpoints

Let’s make this practical.

1. Hiring Filters
Create a 3-question values screen for every new role.
Example:

2. SOP Embeds
Add value-aligned prompts at the top of internal docs.
Example:

3. Prompt Engineering
Train your AI tools to act in accordance with your values.
Example:

4. Decision Debriefs
After major decisions, ask:

Bonus move: name your values as verbs
(“Question clearly.” “Deliver early.” “Protect the signal.”)

They’ll move faster when they feel active.

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🧭 Intelligent Elevation

Every founder reaches the moment where output becomes easy—but alignment gets slippery.

The faster the machine runs, the more it needs guardrails that aren’t just tactical.

Values are those guardrails.
But only when they move from ideas into instructions.

When values are embedded at the operating level—
in prompts, permissions, policies, and playbooks—
you’re not just scaling a business.

You’re scaling integrity.
And that’s how legacy grows roots.

🧵 What’s Happening in AI

Catch up on the #AI + #Business news over the last 24 hours. (December 9, 2025)

::: THE HEADLINES :::

⚡️ @IBM agreed to acquire data‑infrastructure company Confluent in an $11 billion deal — a major bet on scaling AI‑ready cloud services.

🧠 @OpenAI announced enterprise usage of its AI tools has surged — with message volume up ~8× since last year and worker time-savings rising.

📈 @Nvidia cleared a major regulatory hurdle as the U.S. will allow export of its H200 AI chips to approved customers in China under conditions — marking a shift in chip-export policy.

🔍 A new report revealed many companies are cutting or consolidating AI vendor spending — highlighting growing pressure to justify AI budgets amid economic uncertainty.

🌍 @Google Cloud’s leadership laid out a new 3-part AI data‑center and energy strategy — reflecting growing concern over AI’s environmental and infrastructure footprint.

💼 Enterprise AI startup Glean hit $200 million in annual recurring revenue, doubling in less than a year — a sign of strong demand for AI tools in corporates.

🧑‍💻 Internal‑AI firm Cursor said its AI‑powered help desk now handles 80% of the company’s internal support tickets — hinting at increased adoption of AI for enterprise operations.

::: USEFUL TECH UPDATES :::

Mistral Open-Sources a ChatGPT Rival: A new open-weight model designed to compete with GPT-3.5-level capabilities—especially useful for founders who want more control.

Meta Releases AI Studio: A framework for training branded AI chat agents—offering more customization for founder-facing user experiences.

Runway Adds Video-to-Video Transformation: Creators can now re-style or transform video footage with text prompts—expanding design options for storytelling.

💬 Closing Insight

What you believe only becomes legacy once it becomes operational.

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