I Distilled a Billionaire Into an AI and Let It Coach Me | Accio Work

Now I've spent a lot of time around founders who are mentoring people trying to get their businesses off the ground, and after enough of those kinds of conversations you start to see a similar pattern. Whereas the ones who quit almost never quit because their idea was bad, they quit because they were alone. They hit the hard moment, that 1am moment, where they're scared and out of answers and they don't have anyone in their corner who has been there before and can see around those corners. And the ones who make it, right, almost all of them have a mentor or a group of mentors who again have been there and done that and can save you years of mistakes in a single sentence. And that's the cruel part. The people who need a mentor the most are the ones oftentimes least likely to actually get one who's qualified. The guys who are building the biggest companies on the planet are not just going to answer your phone call. But it's 2026, so maybe now we don't actually need them to get that same degree of access and support. And that is something that almost no one is using AI for yet, which is the idea that everything someone has said is sitting there in public, available for free use and consumption. Every talk, every interview, every piece of advice that someone notable has given, it's all there. And for the first time ever, you can take all of that and you can bundle it through AI into something that you can sit down and have a conversation with. So I tried it. I took Jack Ma, who built one of the largest companies in the world, and then I distilled him into an AI mentor and I asked him questions that founders are often too scared to say out loud. Let me show you how I built it and then we'll see if it holds up. Now, I didn't type into a chatbot, act like Jack Ma and just call it a day. I went to the source, and this goes back to what I was saying earlier. So he's given hundreds of hours of talks, most of them are on YouTube. You have things like his stage talks at the World Economic Forum and his speech to business owners at Gateway in Detroit. And then university talks, sit-down interviews, you name it, it's out there. So I watched how he actually talks and then pulled out those principles that he comes back to, like no money is your best asset when you start, your customers pay your bills, not your investors. Machines have chips, but humans have hearts, things like that, just his operating ethos and principles. And then I captured his voice and style of communication. It's short, it's direct. He'll tell you a quick story and then give you one piece of actionable advice. So it's things like that that we're trying to compress through these interviews and understanding the person that then we want to see if the AI can go ahead and replicate with the same quality and kind of information. And all of that is going to go into something called a skill. And to build this, we're doing it on a platform called AxioWork. It's an AI agent system from Alibaba, which is actually a crucial part of our experiment today. Since we're trying to recreate the logic of the guy that built the Alibaba ecosystem, it makes sense that we use their AI agents and platform to do that. And what a skill is, is basically a brain that you bolt on to an AI agent. It's one single file that tells the agent what to think, how to act, what to know. So you can write it once, you can install it, and then the agent will be your mentor based on that skill that you give it. Quickly, I want to do a deep dive into what a skill means so you have a better understanding there of what's actually generating the context or the intelligence that this agent has in regard to Jack. So for that, what I have is Axio pulled up here and then I have a given speech by Jack Moss. I'm going to go ahead and copy this link and this exact same process applies across books, across talks, about anything on the internet where this man has spoken. And then what I'm going to do, and there are other ways to do this, I like this approach personally, is paste the link to that video in this transcript extractor. And so what we want to do is go ahead and pull the text out of here. So let's do that now. I'll click on download. We will download as text so it's easier for the AI to understand. Now we're going to jump here into Axio and then I'm going to say this. Extract the lessons of Jack Moss and how he thinks and turn this into a skill markdown file. Then we're going to upload that transcript we just generated. That's uploaded right here. And to do this properly, so for the full one, we're going to use to create this agent. If you do this times 30, right, you go and find all the references out there but it is the same process. And now let's let that run and we'll see how Axio turns that into a skill that we can then use to create the agent that you're going to see in just a minute. Okay, here we go. We can see it's told us what it has extracted here and this is the reusable skill. So it is, we can actually read that right here if we want to, everything that the agent or the AI learned from that talk. Super long skill. So what we can do is download that as a PDF or we can just really keep it as a markdown file. And that's what next you're going to see us use again just in more volume. So more of this, more reference and base material to go feed into the mentor that we create. So here we are inside the Axio platform. I'm going to start a new agent right here. We're going to leave it as blank and then let's call it Jack Ma Mentor. We'll leave that as the same description. We'll call it professional and auto. Click on plugins. Then click on skills. And then here I'm going to click upload a local skill. Now here I have my Jack Ma perspective file. I'm going to upload that. Then click on user profile. I'm going to say call me John and then finish and launch. So once we have our file we can create the skill that easily and then create the agent based on that skill. But now we need to see if it works. So let's go ahead and click chat. And just so you can see what's within that skill. It's everything from source books, articles, transcripts, and research. So that's all the information that I just mentioned you can publicly compile to create these mentors. And a quick note before I test it. I'll come back to this at the end. But obviously it doesn't have to be Jack Ma. You can do this with anyone whose brain you wish you had. And And let's do something fun here. We're going to do a test. Let's go to CheckGPT and we'll say I have a startup idea but zero funding and three VCs passed on me. I'm thinking about quitting so what should I do? So this is an actual situation you would ask a mentor of some sort. Let's go ahead and see what CheckGPT says and then we'll compare it to our trained agent. So it's giving us some basic questions. How much runway do you have? What did the VC say? Are customers excited? And then let's compare that to what our Jack Ma agent says. I'm going to just give it that same exact prompt default permissions and let's see what our mentor Jack says. So here we can see the response that's generated. I'm telling you being rejected is the best gift that you can receive. So it's telling the actual story kind of exactly what you would hear from a mentor. And then we get a rule. Customer first, employee second, shareholder third. And it's giving very specific rules that is extremely different from the kind of questions that you'd get from BigChatBot and much more personable as well. So that gives you an idea a little bit about what engaging with a mentor of this sort is like where you can see it is very based on their personality and how they actually view the world. So he's saying we were picturing the wrong people in the first place and it should be all about the customers. He's kind of handing you a move here right something more specific like hey start looking for customers focus on the little guy. So now I want to test one more thing which is that a lot of AI systems out there just agree with you on everything and a real mentor won't. We don't want that as users looking for feedback especially in the domain of work. So let's create a new chat and say this I want to drop everything and build a decentralized web startup. Is that a smart move? So here's what it's saying. So here's what it's saying it's not about being smart it's about believing and then we're getting some more pointed advice like who are you serving as a customer first or is your team crazy enough. And so it's not about the technology it's about whether you want to drop everything for something you actually believe in. So it's not feeding the hype it's not crushing the ambition it is really based on their experiences and worldview. And let's frame that a one more way for it. So a third little demo here I just graduated I have a big tech offer for 180 grand but I really want to join a tiny five person startup my parents think I'm crazy what should I do? Is it going to push back or is it going to agree with us? So this is a fun response and that is a pretty cool one-liner maybe you are crazy but if everyone thinks you're smart you're probably too late. And so it gives us an actionable decision frame as well and this is a really fun one-liner like that's worth paying for right the person with the best story always wins. And that's useful as well you do actually want a material kind of next step or action item for making a decision which you receive oftentimes from people in real life less so typically from AI systems. So my overall take on this kind of approach and system and the good parts and the limits is that the good is real and for courage and clarity and learning from the worldview of someone you look up to this is a fantastic tool and approach. When you are stuck scared or overthinking it can cut through the noise and hands you a clear action or next step most founders don't have that this helps you really sort through that noise. But obviously this is a distillation it's not the man himself it can cut through the noise with sharp and helpful advice but it cannot do the heavy lifting for you you still of course have to get your hand you still of course have to get your hands dirty but for having that kind of spiritual backbone and support on your journey as a founder this will be useful. So use it for what it's great at if you need a push or a gut check or a kick to go talk to a customer instead of staring at a spreadsheet this is your route to do that and to engage with some of the best people in the world at what they do and their genuine ideas and perspective like we've been getting here. And here's that part that I told you to hold on to you can do this for absolutely anyone who has said enough in public. If you are a designer just distill the designer to be your AI mentor that you would kill to have review your actual work. If you're an investor build a Warren Buffett agent that will talk you off the cliff of making a bad trade. If you're a writer founder athlete whatever you are just build the brain that you want to talk to based on that actual person and everything out there about them. And for fun here what I did as an example of this is rebuilt myself so if you want to see that in a future video let me know and we can see how accurate it actually is compared to my real views. So that's the experiment I took one of the sharpest founders alive distilled him from his own words into an AI mentor and it held up very well to how he actually thinks and views the world and the advice he would give in person. So if you found this useful or got something out of it you can make sure to subscribe. So if you found this useful comment Jack Ma underneath this video and I'll send the skill to you. With that in mind y'all that's the video and I'll see you in the next one. Cheers.