Dan Martell - The most powerful AI Agent I’ve ever used in my life

00:00:00.000 AI just changed forever.

00:00:02.060 And if you're still using ChatGPT like a fancy Google search,

00:00:05.240 you're about to get left behind.

00:00:07.140 Most people are still chatting with AI,

00:00:09.680 asking questions, getting answers,

00:00:12.040 maybe writing some emails.

00:00:13.500 But the people who are gonna win the next decade,

00:00:15.900 they're not chatting with AI anymore.

00:00:17.820 They're putting AI to work.

00:00:19.880 AI agents that actually do things, build things,

00:00:24.420 complete entire projects while the human sleeps.

00:00:27.220 I build AI companies and tools every day.

00:00:30.000 And let me tell you,

00:00:30.920 this might be the most important technology shift

00:00:33.360 we've ever seen.

00:00:34.820 Bigger than ChatGPT when it came out.

00:00:37.040 Bigger than the internet.

00:00:38.640 So today I'm gonna show you what this new AI actually is

00:00:41.800 and why it's different.

00:00:43.060 How to think about it differently

00:00:44.780 so you actually use it right.

00:00:46.360 The perfect tool for your scenario, 0.98

00:00:48.720 not just some hyped up crap. 0.67

00:00:50.340 And if you stick around to the end, 0.72

00:00:52.520 I'll walk you through your first fully agentic workflow

00:00:55.740 step by step.

00:00:57.480 So let's start by understanding what it is

00:00:59.540 the first place point one what is agentic ai there's three levels of ai the first level that

00:01:07.300 we all got introduced to was chat chat gpt claude gemini i talk to it i give it context it replies

00:01:14.260 it's gotten better over time the second level is automation and that's when we start taking

00:01:19.300 the ai and its ability to classify and respond create workflows that run automatically and

00:01:24.980 And these are tools like make.com or Zapier or N8N

00:01:28.340 for the more advanced people.

00:01:29.580 Level three is agent.

00:01:31.640 This is where the AI thinks, plans, reasons,

00:01:35.400 and executes entire tasks on its own.

00:01:38.780 It opens browsers, it writes code, it creates files,

00:01:42.040 it does research, it doesn't need your hand holding.

00:01:45.360 Most people are at level one, maybe level two,

00:01:49.000 but the right people are moving to level three

00:01:50.960 and the best part, you don't have to go to level two

00:01:52.860 to get to level three because it'll do it for you.

00:01:55.220 Point number two, the new mindset you need.

00:01:58.620 Here's the biggest mistake

00:02:00.440 that people are making with AI right now.

00:02:02.260 Truth is they're barely using it.

00:02:03.980 At best, they might be using it as a thought partner

00:02:06.640 when it could actually build for you.

00:02:08.600 This mindset shift that I see

00:02:10.080 that I encourage people to consider,

00:02:11.260 which is you are the director, not the doer.

00:02:14.180 You need to be designing, not the task maker.

00:02:17.480 And people think, well, if I don't do it,

00:02:19.560 who's gonna do it?

00:02:20.680 AI'll do it.

00:02:21.780 Your job is to give direction, to review the work,

00:02:24.580 to course correct, not to do the work yourself,

00:02:27.220 which sounds crazy.

00:02:28.260 It's called reverse prompting.

00:02:29.580 Essentially, you start with the outcome.

00:02:31.600 What is the goal?

00:02:32.660 And then you let AI build a plan to accomplish the goal.

00:02:36.060 If you're influencing it, then you're telling it what to do

00:02:39.020 and I'm telling you, it knows better than you.

00:02:41.160 So if you haven't heard,

00:02:42.260 IBM rolled out AI agents for their 270,000 employees.

00:02:46.900 It was a $4.5 billion in productivity gains.

00:02:50.920 Managers now complete tasks, like managing their team

00:02:53.960 and figuring out who needs a promotion, 75% faster.

00:02:56.780 That's not because AI is smarter than them,

00:02:59.020 it's because they stopped doing and started directing.

00:03:02.080 So how do you actually become a good AI director?

00:03:04.960 There's only three things you need to do.

00:03:06.820 The first thing is you have to have a clear outcome.

00:03:09.280 You need to know what's the problem to solve.

00:03:12.700 Before it gets going, because it can do a lot of things,

00:03:14.720 you gotta ask yourself, what is that result?

00:03:17.020 What is that outcome you want it to do?

00:03:18.660 the second thing is we want to give it clear instructions i think about what is an example

00:03:23.540 of an output if i'm going to ask it to do a task can i give it a format can i give it the

00:03:28.100 requirements can i give it the template the more specific you can be the better it's going to work

00:03:33.060 for you and three clarify the results i want you to treat it like an intern give it feedback tell

00:03:39.300 it to save the feedback and it will remember because as we build this automation this agentic

00:03:44.260 workflow, it'll be able to do it on its own. If you do those three things, the AI stops giving

00:03:49.260 you generic garbage and starts giving you exactly what you need. And notice how in none of those

00:03:54.340 steps, we actually tell it how to do the work. We begin with the end in mind. It's its job to

00:03:59.420 figure out how to get there. The CEO of Notion, which is the one of the top productivity tools

00:04:03.480 out there, he calls it the manager of infinite minds. When you have this army of infinite minds

00:04:09.140 out there accomplishing, researching, feeding back to each other, and then you can sit in your

00:04:13.740 cockpit and being the director, the future is going to look completely different than how you

00:04:18.520 got to this point in your life. And again, I'm going to show you exactly how to do this. And

00:04:22.500 it's super simple towards the end of this video. If you're a business owner and you're trying to

00:04:26.360 scale past seven figures and you're kind of struggling, figuring out ways to actually

00:04:30.120 integrate AI into your business. I created my AI implementation workbook for a lot of my friends

00:04:34.800 because I wanted to walk them through how we integrate AI into every department in my company,

00:04:39.920 step by step. So if you want a free copy, just find me on Instagram at Dan Martell and DM me

00:04:44.980 the words AI business and I'll send it right over. There's a bunch of AI agent tools out there and it

00:04:50.100 can confuse you. So I'm going to tell you which one is right for you. Point number three, which

00:04:55.340 tool is the right tool? If you ask AI to tell you what tools you can use to create agentic systems,

00:05:01.480 it'll give you a bunch of different tools because there's a bunch and they're coming out every week

00:05:05.300 And every tool is great for one specific thing.

00:05:08.580 So you could go use them all,

00:05:09.920 but that would mean you'd be a master of none.

00:05:11.980 What I'm gonna recommend is you go deep on one,

00:05:14.440 become an expert in that.

00:05:16.360 I'm gonna give you the answer

00:05:17.620 to which one is right for you based on who you are.

00:05:20.360 But once you know that, I want you to go all in.

00:05:23.260 So here's how we pick the right tool.

00:05:25.360 If you're a business owner who needs research,

00:05:27.360 content, and general tasks done, use Manus AI

00:05:30.080 because it is the best all-around agent

00:05:32.900 for getting real work done at the filming of this video if you're a creative who writes designs or

00:05:39.380 works with ideas use Claude co-work they call it co-work because it actually runs on your computer

00:05:45.060 it can manage your files it can clean up folders it can open up tabs on your browser and essentially

00:05:49.860 can accomplish complete projects for you without you involved now if you're a developer or someone

00:05:54.180 who writes code use Claude code it can fix bugs it can add test files it can do work in parallel

00:06:01.140 to your code base while you focus on other harder problems

00:06:04.480 or talk to customers or test what is built.

00:06:07.060 It is the tool that all the developers

00:06:08.760 at the other AI companies use to build that AI.

00:06:11.960 It's kind of wild.

00:06:12.820 And if you want a completely automated,

00:06:16.260 full personal assistant that runs on your computer

00:06:19.160 and you're a little nerdy, use OpenClaw.

00:06:21.660 The reason why is it runs like a person.

00:06:25.380 It'll understand who you are and it has memory.

00:06:27.640 I think it gives you a glimpse

00:06:29.240 of what the future will look like

00:06:30.900 at scale. But it is a little technical setup and truthfully risky. So be careful. I saw an example

00:06:37.320 where the bot bought a $3,000 course for itself so it could be a better agent with no permission.

00:06:44.280 The point is, is pick one. Don't try to learn them all right now. I know you're excited and you're

00:06:48.680 like, oh my gosh, this is the future. But the more you use the one, the more you ask it to teach you

00:06:53.160 how to use more features, the better you'll get at directing AI, which is the skill we need to

00:06:57.680 develop. Let me actually show you exactly how you can use AI agents, because I'm going to go through

00:07:03.200 a real task with Manus right now. I'm going to make it easy for you to understand so you can

00:07:07.820 follow along and see exactly how this works. Point number four, Manus and action. So for example,

00:07:14.340 if I'm the founder of a digital marketing agency and I want to do some research on my competitors

00:07:18.540 so I can see what they're doing and figure out if I got to change my pricing or my offer,

00:07:22.100 I can get Manus to do that. So just go to Manus and type something like this,

00:07:25.860 Research the top three niches, digital agency in Canada,

00:07:29.920 finding their pricing, main features,

00:07:32.040 and what they're doing well.

00:07:32.960 Then create a simple one-page website

00:07:34.620 that summarizes the findings.

00:07:36.340 So notice it's doing the research.

00:07:37.940 It's finding those three companies.

00:07:39.220 It's building a task list so they can follow.

00:07:41.780 It's writing the code of the new website for the output.

00:07:44.460 It's doing it, and I'm not touching the keyboard.

00:07:46.500 And I didn't give it any expert detailed instructions.

00:07:49.600 Even somebody that doesn't know a whole lot about anything

00:07:51.820 could have wrote what I wrote,

00:07:53.080 and they would have got an expert level output.

00:07:55.740 Most people would have took a week plus

00:07:57.900 and they probably wouldn't know how to code this

00:07:59.640 and they would have confused it.

00:08:01.220 This did it automatically in less than 10 minutes.

00:08:04.240 And my favorite part is within Manus,

00:08:06.120 I can now iterate because there's some things

00:08:08.760 that are missing or maybe I want some changes.

00:08:10.640 So I'm gonna tell it.

00:08:11.480 Now add a section to each one

00:08:14.040 that includes client testimonials.

00:08:16.540 Enter, watch, it's going.

00:08:19.160 It's literally updating itself.

00:08:21.020 And just like that, I now have client testimonials

00:08:23.420 that were pulled from each of those companies

00:08:25.000 did the research and it updated the website in minutes. So now I'm going to ask it to send it

00:08:29.640 to Sam Gaudet, who's my creative director in Slack and ask him to provide feedback. And then also

00:08:34.560 email that link with the details of what I did in the research to Joel Harrison. Now I go check

00:08:39.160 Slack. It posted it as me and it has a little icon that says Manus. So they know that it was

00:08:43.520 from Manus. I can now get feedback from my team and apply it to that website. So I can tell it

00:08:49.400 to monitor that Slack thread and see if there's a reply every 15 minutes, every hour, whatever I

00:08:54.300 want to tell Manus. And if it gets feedback, it's going to either prompt me or I can just say,

00:08:57.940 take any feedback and automatically apply it. And it'll apply it to the website. It did all of that.

00:09:03.240 It did the research. It created the website. It shared it with my team. It took their feedback.

00:09:07.200 It updated it. It took my feedback, updated it all within minutes. And what's cool is you can

00:09:11.920 kick off a bunch of those in parallel and they'll all run while you're doing something else. So now

00:09:17.440 you understand, I went from an idea to a prompt, to sending it out to people I work with, to getting

00:09:23.420 the feedback to updating the output. And I can even say now email or post on Slack to everybody

00:09:28.340 that's been involved, letting them know the change is made. I do this all the time. It's

00:09:33.600 amazeballs. It's crazy. The fact that without knowing how to create automation, you've just

00:09:39.000 created automation. My favorite part, it's mobile. So on my phone, I can sit there and I can talk to

00:09:44.200 it and I can tell it what I want it to do. Spins up, runs it, connects to stuff, pulls everything.

00:09:49.380 Now, here's a pro tip.

00:09:51.040 I challenge you to stay in the tool.

00:09:53.960 See, we've been taught because of the chat level

00:09:56.280 that we need to chat and it gives us a response

00:09:58.780 and we copy the response and then we go do something with it.

00:10:01.340 Post it in Slack, send an email, create a Google Doc.

00:10:04.400 Don't do it.

00:10:05.420 I dare you not to do it.

00:10:06.700 You'll be tempted to take action, don't.

00:10:08.840 That way you get better and the AI gets better

00:10:11.860 because it's doing more for you

00:10:13.160 and it's learning how you like to work.

00:10:15.320 So now that you've seen how it works,

00:10:17.840 This is the question.

00:10:19.040 What are you gonna do about it?

00:10:20.380 What are you gonna change?

00:10:21.780 AI is the opportunity you've been waiting for.

00:10:24.260 You've been asking, like,

00:10:25.180 why wasn't I early to the internet?

00:10:26.720 Oh my gosh, I wish I would've came out

00:10:28.040 with that mobile app idea.

00:10:29.520 This is now.

00:10:30.540 In the next five years is the AI gold rush.

00:10:33.840 And there will be more millionaires created

00:10:35.760 in the next five years than the history of the internet.

00:10:39.180 Just like the dot-com boom.

00:10:41.040 This is bigger.

00:10:41.840 This isn't about being an AI expert.

00:10:44.640 The cool part is AI is the AI expert.

00:10:46.680 It's about being willing to learn.

00:10:49.180 It's about telling yourself,

00:10:50.500 I need to just sit down and do the work.

00:10:53.100 And I know I'm not technical

00:10:54.480 and I know this still confuses me,

00:10:55.860 but I'm willing to read, I'm willing to research,

00:10:57.860 and I'm willing to empower the tool to help me in my life.

00:11:01.560 And the best part is, is you just saw how easy it was

00:11:04.600 to do something that seems complicated

00:11:06.620 and it did it in minutes.

00:11:07.720 Stop pretending not to know.

00:11:09.540 I know it's overwhelming, but if you just take action,

00:11:12.640 I promise you it will click.

00:11:14.540 So here's what I want you to do right now.

00:11:16.240 Pick one tool based on what I said earlier.

00:11:18.900 Number two, pick one task that you're doing every week

00:11:21.960 that takes you a lot of time.

00:11:23.540 Three, have the agent do it for you today.

00:11:27.260 Sit down with it, play with it.

00:11:28.600 If you do that, you will start to change the mindset

00:11:31.900 and the belief and understand how easy this is.

00:11:34.820 And you will get ahead of 99.9% of everybody else

00:11:37.780 using AI to do chat.

00:11:40.120 And remember, if you want my free copy

00:11:41.780 of my AI implementation playbook

00:11:43.480 that we use in all my companies,

00:11:45.260 just DM me the word AI business on Instagram

00:11:48.120 and I'll send it right over.

00:11:49.420 And if you wanna learn what are the best AI tools

00:11:51.440 to make money in 2026,

00:11:53.280 click here and I'll see you on the other side.

Dan Martell - February 26, 2026

The most powerful AI Agent I’ve ever used in my life

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