IdeasOut Live · Free · 45 minutes on Zoom
Leaders who'd rather not learn AI: Watch one idea become A Strategy and the Words to Share It. Live.
Leaders have two jobs: make strategy, then communicate it. IdeasOut does both.
Bring an idea you've been carrying. Mark Sylvester and Reed, the AI interviewer inside IdeasOut, work one of them live, from a rough thought to a strategy and the words to share it.
Every other Wednesday, 10 AM Pacific.
It wrote a strategy memo on my own pricing model and I used it as-is. No cleanup. That's never happened with another tool.”
Casey O'Toole, Founder and CEO, LinkyBot
Your best ideas arrive half-formed, and you have no one to think them through with
They show up in the car, in the middle of a client meeting, at 11 at night. A new direction for the business. A position you're not sure you can defend yet. A decision you keep circling.
Your team is busy and reports to you. A consultant costs a retainer and a month of onboarding. So the idea waits.
An idea you never fully form is an idea you never act on.
The strategy stays in your head. The meeting where you could have moved people ends with "let me think about it." The point of view your market should hear from you, they hear from someone else.
Inside the 45 minutes
- What IdeasOut is, in plain wordsThe first few minutes, so nobody is guessing.
- One registrant's idea, worked liveReed interviews them, plays the idea back, and turns it into a strategy and the words to share it.
- The pushbackTheir Council of AI advisors argues with the plan before anyone else does.
- How to joinWhat membership includes, and the IdeasOut Live rate.
- Your question, answeredStay to the end and Mark answers your question about AI and your own work.
Members get Reed and their Council any day, for any idea, plus the writing in their voice and a live group hour with Mark every month.
What counts as an idea
- A direction you're weighing. Whether to narrow the business to one kind of client.
- A point of view you keep almost publishing. The thing you say in every meeting that you've never written down.
- A decision you keep circling. A price change, a hire, a partnership, a service you want to stop offering.
One or two sentences is enough. Rough is the point.
Pick your Wednesday
Same session, two dates. 10 AM Pacific, 45 minutes on Zoom, free.
We'll email you the Zoom link. Your idea stays between us.
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Mark Sylvester hosts every session
Mark Sylvester is a co-founder of Coastal Intelligence, an AI think tank and consultancy, based in Santa Barbara. IdeasOut™ is his platform for thought leaders, because nothing changes until the idea gets out. He co-founded Wavefront, the company behind Maya, the 3D animation software that won an Academy Award, and since 2010 he's produced TEDxSantaBarbara and coached more than 600 TEDx speakers to find the one idea worth spreading.
What leaders say after using IdeasOut
Twenty minutes later I had two difficult letters drafted, one to the man who nominated me a decade ago and one to the CEO, and clarity on a significant life decision.”
Thinking was never the problem. Coordinating my thoughts and structuring the pieces bordered on mild insanity. IdeasOut helped me sort through the cold start problem by interviewing me, then worked as my AI partner through the writing to produce output I'm proud to share.”
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. IdeasOut Live is free. At the end, Mark explains how membership works for anyone who wants to keep going.
Do I need to know how to use AI?
No. Reed asks questions and the person answers them. There are no prompts to write.
Do I have to bring an idea?
No. You're welcome to watch. If you do bring one, yours could be the one on screen.
What if neither date works?
Sessions run every other Wednesday. Pick the next one that fits, and the page always shows the next two.
What is IdeasOut?
An AI thought partner for leaders who aren't technical, with the writing handled in your voice and a live group hour with Mark Sylvester every month. See how it works.
Out of your head and into the world.
Reserve your free seatAvailable exclusively through Coastal Intelligence.
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