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[REDACTED] Episode 6: The 8-Stage "AI-ification Engine" Behind Every Automation Shipped
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- NC Tweener Talks
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- Jul 15, 2026
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- 3012
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Summary
David Shaner and Taylor Cotner spend this episode of Redacted screen-sharing everything they've built since the last one, and it centers on a framework David calls the AI-ification engine, an eight-stage method for turning any proven business process into something an AI agent can reliably run. He walks through the full pipeline, from process mapping through ongoing evaluation, and demos a new ClickUp documentation format the team built to keep every automation legible to both people and models. Taylor takes the second half to show how he rebuilt Offline's business development system from the ground up, using a single extended Claude conversation to reconstruct years of relationship history from his email and texts, then turning it into a repeatable five-phase playbook that can research a brand-new target company from a cold start. The conversation covers the practical side of running AI in production, too, why they dropped a synced database in favor of calling the HubSpot API directly with whitelisted fields, and an honest, unresolved discussion of how to evaluate dozens of different AI-run processes once they're all live. Timestamps 00:00 Cold open 00:41 Welcome back to Redacted 01:53 Taylor's back from two weeks in Europe 02:15 The new "AI-ification engine" board in ClickUp 03:05 Offline's marketplace of auto-updating Claude skills 06:50 Origin story of the AI-ification engine 08:25 The 8 stages, back to back 11:30 The hiring analogy: "This is like HR for AI" 14:40 Inside the "house format" ClickUp table 16:00 Ditching the proxy database for direct HubSpot calls 18:05 Old-school SOPs vs. the new house format 20:10 Walking the company-as-lead process step by step 24:10 Why the old nested-SOP approach never got followed 29:30 Handoff: Taylor's turn 29:55 Offline's acc…