Summary

Action Items

• [ ] Meet up with friend this weekend to learn more about their AI work and specific solutions space
• [ ] Clarify conflict of interest and consultancy restrictions with the city employer before pursuing further
• [ ] Get clearer on the concept internally before making any decisions
• [ ] Update notifications settings and push to production
• [ ] Review all Balansebarn and Homie content and create edit workflow for existing topics
• [ ] Complete NO recipe implementation

AI Consulting Opportunity — Friend's Experience

• A friend (previously in edtech, creating math content for kids on TikTok) has now pivoted to offering AI assistance to companies as a revenue generator
• Landed a 500k NOK contract almost casually — from a conversation at a wedding — doing work that agencies had quoted at 1M NOK
• Suggests there is a current window of opportunity in the AI consulting space
• No details yet on whether the friend specialises in a specific type of AI solution or works broadly

Strategic Angle — Values-Aligned AI Consulting

• Concern raised about purely chasing AI consulting as a runway generator with no deeper purpose — risk of being "back to square one" if it runs dry
• Preferred direction: use existing skill sets to assist companies that are values-aligned with Loop's mission — "help out by helping those who help out"
• Could be framed as Loop Studio — a consulting/product arm working with mission-aligned organisations

Constraints & Conflict of Interest

• One speaker is contractually prohibited from doing consultancy work (through their city employer)
• Possible gray area: white-labeling the platform as a product rather than pure consultancy, though setup hours would still blur the line
• Outcome depends partly on the target market
• Will need to raise this with the city employer to check for conflict of interest — outcome may be difficult

Notes

Transcript

Where he's trying to get kids interested in math in some interesting ways. So I was like, oh, so he's also in edtech. Nice. And I reached out and I'm like, yeah, what are you up to these days? And it turns out that he's fully automated that except his TikTok posts with him in it. And that is now pivoted a bit over to AI assistance for companies as a revenue generator. And he said that he thinks it's a window now where it's kind of wild where he was just having a drunk conversation with a guy at a wedding and then next day he's there signing a contract for half a million knock to help them with some AI stuff that agencies had pitched from 1 million knocking up that he could do for them easily.

So probably window of opportunity there. I'm thinking that we I kind of don't want you to spend all your time on just a revenue generator and that's it. And if it's just generating runway to do the same thing and then that dies out and then we're kind of back to square one.

But if we could use our skill sets to assist companies that are somewhat on the same path or have similar missions to what we have, That we could kind of niche down within that space and then it could be interesting.

Um, To kind of help out by helping those who help out. Yeah.

I don't know, just thinking. Yeah, yeah. And I guess there, would we have to be cautious there in terms of

represent agreement and like any conflict of interest if it's more, if it veers into kind of like tech solutions space with AI or what are the, what are the kind of like conditions there? Remind me.

Yeah, it's the thing that I'm prohibited from doing is consultancy work.

Um, And it's a bit of a gray area. Let's say that we white-labeled the platform that we made and kind of sold it more as a product, then it wouldn't be consultancy directly, but of course we would have to sell some consultancy hours to set it up. So that's kind of a gray area, I suppose. Yeah.

And I guess it depends a bit on the market as well.

Annoyingly, it's something that I would have to discuss with the city to see if it's any sort of conflict of interest.

And I expect her to be a bee about it.

Oh yeah, okay, well, let's like get a bit clearer in our mind and we can see then. But, um, yeah, I mean, there's definitely like

Especially if it was— if it's with kind of companies or organizations that are like values aligned with kind of what we're trying to do with Loop. Then I think it, you know, that as like part of almost Loop Studio.

Yeah.

Could, could work as like in terms of like what we're trying to build.

Um,

Yeah.

Does— is your friend, is he like in any specific space in terms of like the type of AI solutions, or it's just like anything you want to do with AI, I'm your man? I don't have any details. I'm going to meet up with them maybe this weekend, just have a chat. Yeah. See what's up.

I have to check my office here.

My sister slept over here.

In this room last night, then she was like, it kind of smells like an old gym bag here for some reason.

It does. It smells like, like man sweat, and I have no idea why it would, because it's like nothing here that would emit that smell. So I have to start digging around what's going on in the storage room here or something. Oh no.

It's always a, like, daunting feeling trying to, like, sniff out a bad smell. You're like, what am I gonna find? Yeah, this is so strange.

Oh well. All right, cool. Are we good for today? I have much to do and I have squash with my dad today, so I have to leave at like 2 o'clock. Yes, let's get on with it.

Sounds good. Doei! Take care. Bye. Bye-bye.