Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle #852 I Wasted $40K on an AI Agency. Here's What I Built Instead
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Apr 2, 2026 Aaron Anderson, founder of LinkPitch.io, runs an eight-year remote link‑building agency and builds AI-native systems for SEO. He paid $40K for an AI agency that failed and then built better tools himself. The conversation covers using Claude Code to automate ops, retraining workflows without devs, and shifting from “what can AI do?” to “what can’t I do?”
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Stop Hiring VAs Without First Trying To Automate
- Before hiring a VA or delegating, ask whether you can automate the task with AI first.
- Aaron used this rule to convert recurring reporting and repetitive outreach work into scheduled automated scripts that replace manual VA tasks.
Speak The Model's Native Language To Get Reliable Results
- Claude Code speaks in code so asking it to produce native code avoids brittle multi-tool orchestrations.
- Aaron asked Claude Code for a Python solution and in an hour had hosted GitHub Actions automation that replaced messy no-code stacks.
Automated Weekly Link Reports With Playwright
- Aaron automated weekly link reports by scripting Playwright to log into Ahrefs and SEMrush and download scheduled exports.
- That eliminated manual downloads and weekly spreadsheets his team used to maintain.