AI Made His Studio Cheaper, Faster… and Busier

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Creative director Ben Cook (Recreate Australia) reckons there’s “no excuse not to be a millionaire” if you learn to wield AI—then proves it. We dig into how his team slashed pre-production time, turned meeting notes into proposals, and undercut competitors without cutting corners. Expect practical tactics: recording in Fathom, summarising in Gemini/ChatGPT, dropping into Canva, sending via PandaDoc, plus when to use Copilot, Grok, and Whisper. We also tackle the hard bit: jobs, team pushback, and how to upskill people so AI lifts quality, not laziness. Why it matters: if you run content, marketing, or a service business, this is AI for business you can deploy today. Follow for more brutally useful episodes.

Resources & Links:

 📲 Dumb Monkey AI Academy → https://dumbmonkey.ai/

📱 Dumb Monkey App → https://dumbmonkey.ai/dl

📘 The CEO Who Mocked AI (Until It Made Him Millions) → https://mybook.to/dumbmonkeypodcast

🚀 Enterprise Monkey → https://enterprisemonkey.com.au

Episode-specific:

 • Recreate Australia → https://re-create.au/

 • ChatGPT (Voice) → https://chat.openai.com/

• Google Gemini → https://gemini.google.com/

• Fathom (meeting assistant) → https://www.fathom.video/

• Canva → https://www.canva.com/

• PandaDoc → https://www.pandadoc.com/

• Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 → https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/copilot

• Google Vertex AI Agent Builder → https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/agent-builder

• Gamma (AI decks) → https://gamma.app/

• Lovable (AI app builder) → https://lovable.dev/

• Grok (xAI) → https://x.ai/

• Whisper (speech-to-text) → https://openai.com/research/whisper

• Model Context Protocol (MCP) → https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol