😲'Tis the Season. We're Giving It All Away.

'Tis the season for giving, and this issue gives away a lot.

Three free downloads. Eight free live HighLevel sessions. A free community with 12 days of gifts coming in December. And two workshops worth every dollar if you want to go deeper.

Here's the reason for the party: VC Inc is now The Leverage School.

For 10 years, everything I've taught comes back to one idea: leverage. Over your competitors, over your calendar, over your own business. AI is the biggest lever any of us has ever had. So we put the word on the door, and a new name deserves gifts.

🎁 The free stuff:

• The Claude Code video-editing skill. Raw footage in, finished ad out. 👉 Download it free

• The AI Build Lab with Michael Reimer. 8 free live sessions on the HighLevel features agencies make money with, a playbook for every session, and a bonus from each of us revealed live. Michael is a 2026 Gold Affilionaire, I took 2026 Silver, and we've both sat in HighLevel's beta groups for years. Starts Wednesday, November 18 at 8 PM ET. 👉 Save your free seat

• 12 Days of Leverage plus a beginner Claude Code + Codex class, both landing in late December inside the free community. 👉 Join the free community

• My HighLevel pricing pack and the prompts for 8 viral GitHub repos. Both further down in this issue.

Thinking about joining HighLevel? Hold off until the 18th. Michael and I reveal our join bonuses live, and you'll want them.

🛠️ The workshops worth paying for:

• Vibe Coding Gets Physical (Nov 11 to 12). Your apps and automations live in a browser. This workshop gets them into the real world: a one-button automation on your desk, a dashboard showing a live number, an RFID check-in station, and a focus timer that tracks profit. Co-hosted by Kaila Love. No electronics experience needed. Why bother? Meta glasses, robots and wearables are coming fast, and the people who understand how hardware talks to AI will build what everyone else buys. $395, plus a kit of about $60 on Amazon. Registration closes tonight at 11:59 PM ET. Kit won't arrive in time? There's a second date for you. 👉 Reserve your seat

• Claude Code Workshop, rebuilt for December (Dec 14 to 17). 4 live evenings, 5 to 7 PM ET. You build and ship 3 real apps, plus a security lesson from a former Amazon engineer. $65. 👉 Reserve your seat

Merry early Christmas. Pick your gift and start with the free skill.

🛠️ HighLevel Insider: Every Plan Just Changed. Here’s the One That Pays You Back.

HighLevel rebuilt every plan at LevelUp, and the “free AI” headline is already confusing people. Some of it is free. Some of it never will be.

I recorded the breakdown from my hotel room in Dallas so you pick the right plan before you pay for the wrong one.

The three plans now:

• $97 Starter: 3 sub-accounts. Funnels, websites, CRM, payments, courses, communities, the free AI helpers (fair use) and 24/7 support. Still runs a whole business for $97.

• $297 Unlimited: unlimited client accounts and white label. You rebill texts and calls at cost (no markup) and get limited API access. Your clients pay for their own AI.

• $497 Founder: everything above, plus the tools, lead routing and ad support to run it like a real agency.👉 Run your numbers in the free calculator

What Founder gets you now:

• Sell into a niche on day one. Prebuilt Industries for restaurants, coaches and course creators, and home services (plumbers, electricians, anyone who drives to the job). HighLevel has a full team building more.

• Drop two side subscriptions. Project management covers what you pay ClickUp or Asana for. Meeting Rooms covers Zoom. Ticketing runs on the same system HighLevel uses internally.

• Run events and loyalty programs for clients. In-person or virtual events with phone registration and calendar reminders, plus Starbucks-style points, rewards and gift cards.

• Find broken automations faster. Workflow maps show exactly where a client’s workflow breaks. The new A2P console walks you through text-message registration with AI.

• Mark up what you resell. SaaS mode, rebilling with markup on texts, calls and email, and an advanced API that auto-creates and auto-fills accounts.

• Get help selling it. AdFuel ad support (HighLevel says Founders are “eligible,” full details aren’t published yet), the Founders Club with weekly lives, masterminds and challenges, Partner Network lead routing, and commissions when you sell HighLevel payment processing.

Here’s the thing about “free AI”: HighLevel has two kinds, and only one is free.

• Helpers build for you. Ask AI, AI Studio, Content AI, Funnel & Website AI, Email AI. Free for agency logins on every plan, inside fair-use limits that reset in a 5-hour window (same idea as your Claude plan).

• Workers talk to your customers. Conversation AI, Voice AI, Reviews AI, agents and workflow AI actions. Pay-as-you-go on every plan, for everyone. No exceptions.

• Your white-label clients don’t get the free helpers. They pay as they go or pick the $20, $50 or $97 AI plan. Only Founder agencies can sell the $20 AI Starter.

Do you need Founder? Yes, if you build AI sites and apps for clients, white-label, or go deep in one of those three industries. If HighLevel only runs your own business, stay on $97. Same AI helpers, $400 a month back in your pocket.

👉 Download my free HighLevel pricing pack: slideshow + 54 pricing questions answered

Youtube: GoHighLevel Plans Explained: $97 vs $297 vs $497 Founder (2026) (https://youtu.be/Ih2XBuq7Wc8)

Not on HighLevel yet? Get the 30-day free trial plus my join bonuses and the Skool community. A card is required, and texts, calls and AI are billed by use during the trial. 👉 Start here

The bottom line: HighLevel now hands Founder agencies the software, the niche playbooks, lead routing and ad support. The agencies that package it this quarter get to the client first.

 🤖 I Checked 8 Viral GitHub Repos So You Don’t Install the Wrong One

A repo with 300,000 stars can still wreck your machine. Popular doesn’t mean safe, and the repo that was clean last month can ship a bad update tomorrow.

So before you install anything, run my 60-second check. Paste the repo URL into Claude Code or Codex and ask three things: is it safe for my computer, does it carry any prompt injections, and does it pull in paid or shady third-party software? Anything comes back sketchy, walk away.

Then ask four more: Is it real? Can my business actually use it? Does it run on a normal PC? What does it really cost?

I ran 8 viral repos through that filter. Here’s what made the cut:

• REA (Reverse Engineer Anything): 343K+ stars. Breaks an app down to see how its features work, so you can build your own version. I used it to build out my own screen recorder that edits video, writes descriptions and makes thumbnails. Only study apps you own, open-source apps, or apps you’re allowed to study.

• ArtCraft: 13 free creative apps that rebuild a big chunk of the Adobe suite, open source and written in Rust. My team customized PdfCraft with our logo and watermarks, and now one prompt sends a contract and fires the invoice once it’s signed.

• HyperFrames (by HeyGen): describe a video, get an MP4. Captions, on-screen callouts, product launch clips and full site tours. I shipped a 15-second walkthrough of a client onboarding site in one prompt without recording a thing.

• VoiceStudio: free voice cloning, dubbing and transcription you can run on your own computer or a VPS. The catch: the default voice is personal use only. For business, clone your own.

• Jev and Laya: fast AI decision engines that cut token spend in AI apps. Jev is paid and very cheap. Laya is free, and in my test it missed just 1 call that Jev got right.

• Shaders: 200+ free moving backgrounds, gradients and glass effects for your website. Pair it with Claude Design and your site stops looking like every other AI-built page.

• On my watch list: Buzz by Block (Slack where AI agents are members, self-hosted and free) and Hindsight (long-term memory for your AI agents). Promising. Not ready to tell you to bet a client on either.

And the 5 viral repos I’d skip, with the reasons, are in the video.

👉 Get the prompts, setup steps and slides from this build (free)

Youtube: I Checked 8 Viral GitHub Repos. Here’s Which Ones to Use (https://youtu.be/v8MLJaGRKcI)

The free tools are getting good fast. The skill that pays now is knowing which ones to trust, and running the 60-second check before anything touches your machine.

 🧠 AI Went Quiet This Week. Use the Window.

The big labs are holding their fire. Anthropic is heading into its IPO, and nobody wants to drop a headline launch that moves a stock price the week it lists.

So the releases that did ship this week were the small, useful ones: cheaper video, faster images, and a hard reality check on AI agents.

ChatGPT now makes animated GIFs. OpenAI shipped GPT Image 2.6 in ChatGPT and the API. It runs about twice as fast as the last model (a full image in roughly 20 seconds), and it makes animated GIFs you can edit with a follow-up prompt. “Put a hat on him.” Done. If you send emails or run ads, that’s a scroll-stopper in under a minute with zero design software.

Google is giving away 15-second videos. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash now makes clips up to 15 seconds (up from 10), holds a face and outfit steady across shots, and swaps backgrounds without touching the people in front. The price dropped 30% to about 7 cents per second of 720p, so a full 15-second clip costs around $1.05. And anyone with a Google account gets 3 free 15-second videos a month inside Google Vids.

Nobody is letting AI order their tacos. Every agent demo shows AI booking the Uber and ordering dinner. DoorDash just told investors it has seen only a few hundred orders from AI agents, total, against about 3 million deliveries a day. Uber reported 500 Uber Eats orders placed by agents out of 320 million trips. Customers aren’t handing their wallets to agents yet. The money in agents right now sits inside the business: follow-up, booking, support and back office, the jobs your team already hates doing.

Rapid-fire that matters for your business:

• Claude can read your bank account. It connects through Plaid, rolling out on Pro, Max and Ultra. Read-only, no training on your financial data, and it only sees the last four digits of your account number. Ask “where did my money go this month?” and get a breakdown.

• ChatGPT and Codex now share one usage allowance. Heavy coding days eat into your chat budget. Plan for it.

• Grokbot makes phone calls for you. It checks the number, asks permission, and tells the person up front it’s a virtual assistant on a recorded line. Expect plenty of hang-ups until people get used to it.

• Kimi K3.1 Pro released its weights. The strongest open-weight model out there, running close to Claude Fable 5.1. It’s 2.8 trillion parameters, so it’s not running on your laptop.

• Pika H3 Flex is a new open-weight video model: up to 4K, 15-second clips with a soundtrack. You can try it free on Hugging Face.

• Pruna PH3 Image is an open image model that runs on a high-end gaming GPU. Quality sits below ChatGPT, but you can fine-tune it on your own brand.

• Meta Muse now takes voice and video calls. Talk to it like an assistant instead of typing.

• Google ran AI in space. Its Project Suncatcher satellite sent back the first AI response from a data center in orbit. One reply, one prototype, and a very real milestone.

Quiet weeks don’t last. Once the IPO dust settles, expect a wave of launches, and the people who already have their workflows built on cheap video, fast images and back-office agents will be the ones ready to use them on day one.

😲Claude Code Edited a 5-Minute Ad. Nobody Opened Premiere.

My partner Ivan Bunin dropped 12 minutes of raw footage into Claude Code: retakes, stumbles, the works. Claude handed back a finished sales ad with captions, pop-up graphics, B-roll, and client testimonials it went and found on its own.

• Remember HyperFrames from the repo list above? This is where it earns its keep.

  • It edits like a human who never gets tired. Maps every retake, keeps the best take, cuts on the exact end of a word, cleans the voice, then layers captions and animated graphics on top.

  • It digs through your footage for you. Ivan had AI index 3,000 B-roll clips, rate each one 0 to 5 stars, and tag what’s in it. Now Claude pulls the right clip straight from his Google Drive mid-edit. It turned a recorded client call into a ready-to-post testimonial Reel too.

  • It’s free, mostly. The skill and every tool inside it are free and open source, and the rendering runs on your own computer. You do need a paid Claude plan. ElevenLabs for extra voice polish is optional.

  • It’s fast, not magic. His 5-minute ad took about 2.5 hours start to finish, review time included. Ivan still checks every edit twice, because AI still makes mistakes.

  👉 Grab Ivan’s free video-editing skill

  Youtube: Claude Code Video Editing: No Editor Needed (Free Skill) (https://youtu.be/S9Dd8fQHaEo)

💲Deals at a Glance

💲Deals at a Glance

🛠️ Vibe Coding Gets Physical: Hardware + AI Workshop, $395: Wed Nov 11 and Thu Nov 12, live on Zoom, co-hosted by Kaila Love. Build a one-button automation, a live desk dashboard, an RFID check-in station and a profit-tracking focus timer. Kit is about $60 on Amazon, and there’s a second date if yours arrives late. Registration closes tonight, 11:59 PM ET. 👉 Reserve My Seat

🤝 The AI Build Lab with Michael Reimer, Free: 8 live sessions on the HighLevel features agencies make money with, a free playbook for every session, and a bonus from each of us revealed live. Starts Wed Nov 18, 8 PM ET. 👉 Save My Free Seat

🚀 Claude Code Workshop: 4 Days, 8 Hours, $65: Dec 14 to 17, 5 to 7 PM ET. Rebuilt for 2027. Build and ship 3 real apps, set up 5 MCP servers, and leave with the CLAUDE.md templates and skills starter pack. Registration closes Dec 13, and every cohort after this one costs more. 👉 Reserve My Seat

💰 The Best GoHighLevel Affiliate Offer on the Planet: 30-day free trial (card required), HighLevel’s onboarding, plus my bonus stack. Everything you need to win with GHL, in one place. New to HighLevel? Catch the live bonus reveal at the AI Build Lab on Nov 18 first. 👉 Get Started

🎓 The Automated Marketer Skool Community: 5,200+ members building every week. Weekly live calls with me, HighLevel courses from beginner to mastery, snapshots, templates and AI prompts. Two ways in:

• 👉 Join the Free Community: free access, free courses, daily community

• 👉 Go VIP, $47/mo intro: hot-seat support, advanced templates, inner-circle access

🏗️ Agency Build-A-Thon, Free: A complete AI agency built from zero on HighLevel. Domain, white-label SaaS plans, a client-ready website, voice and chat AI, the whole back end, every step in order. Your blueprint if you sell to clients (or want to). 👉 Watch Free

🏪 Business Build-A-Thon, Free: Two real businesses built with AI from a blank screen. Domain, website, booking, follow-up automations, and the AI that answers the phone. For launching your own business, not clients’. 👉 Watch Free

🛠️ Done-For-You by Rapid Active Marketing: Don’t want to build it yourself? My team builds it for you: HighLevel setups, websites, funnels, automations, and AI voice and chat. Done by the people who teach this. We take a handful of clients at a time, on purpose. 👉 See What We Build

🔥 The Leverage School (formerly Vibe Coding Incubator), Free: Hands-on vibe coding, live weekly trainings, app templates, support and Lovable how-tos, plus 12 Days of Leverage in late December. 👉 Join Free

😲 GoHighLevel Masterclass on Udemy, $20: 6,996 students, 4.6★, 18+ hours. 👉 Grab It

📣 Know someone drowning in AI tool chaos? Send them this. Every referral moves you up the ladder: free GPT library at 10, my GHL course at 25, a free Hormozi book at 50, a private 1-on-1 call with me at 100. 👉 Share your link. 10 seconds, no cost.

Real-time dictation, built in-house, benchmarked against the big labs

Real-time speech recognition is harder than batch transcription. You don't get to wait for the end of the sentence. Wispr Flow built its own real-time model, Canto.

On a challenge set of messy audio (music, traffic, nearby voices, whispering, far-field speech), it had the lowest word error rate among the real-time models tested. It also tied for the lowest error rate on LibriSpeech. On 10 hours of real dictations from 2,300+ speakers, it beat every model tested, including Google, OpenAI, AssemblyAI and Deepgram.

Talk to Cursor, Claude Code or Slack, and get clean, formatted text as you go. Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android.

See the benchmarks

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Keep watching, keep learning, and keep moving forward!!

Nuno