The Stoa of AI
My new AI community with Zeneca and Frank Zuuring
TLDR:
I’ve created a new community with Zeneca and Frank called “The Stoa of AI”, aimed at helping SMB owners and entrepreneurs do more with less through AI.
We bring real hands-on AI experience: Zeneca through yoshizen.co, Frank through orderofwork.com, and myself with yieldseeker.xyz.
Members get 2 weekly live calls, multiple courses, a community forum with asynchronous support, and 20+ recorded sessions in the classroom.
We’re still early, yet already have 100+ members and the price rises at 125. Whether you join or not, the most important thing is that you regularly use AI!
I’ve recently created a new AI community with two friends, the well known influencer Zeneca, and digital marketing pro Frank Zuuring. This community takes our mutual passion for AI and our experience with it in business to help other entrepreneurs and small business owners level up with AI too.
There’s no doubt AI is rapidly changing the world and I do truly believe that being in a community with other people learning and using it is the best way to stay on top. So today I decided to write about our new community so you can learn more about it and decide if you want to join us too.
If this post resonates with you and you enjoy the content then please share it with a friend and get rewarded for doing so!
This blog goes out weekly to over 20,000 subscribers. Please message me if you’re interested in sponsorships or partnerships.
The Stoa of AI
Today I’d like to share a new community I’ve created with two friends of mine: the well known Web3 influencer Zeneca and digital marketing pro Frank Zuuring.
The three of us have gotten to know each other pretty well over the past few years through the Web3 space and worked together on various projects along the way.
Earlier this year Zeneca suggested creating a new community in the AI space given his growing obsession with everything AI. Considering how Frank and I have both gotten just as deep into AI, we all decided to work together and created a community we're calling "The Stoa of AI".
The word "Stoa" is from Ancient Greece, referring to spaces where philosophers would gather to discuss and teach each other, essentially something similar to what we'd now call a school. So you can read the name a bit like "The School of AI".
Given that Frank's previous community was called Odyssey DAO, a nod to the ancient Greek Odysseus, and Zeneca's name is itself a reference to the Stoic philosopher Seneca - we liked the theme and decided to go with it!
We’ve all grown to become quite knowledgeable and big users of AI in our own ways. Given our mutual experience and passion, and the rapid growth that’s happening in the space, we decided to build this community into a place where other people can learn and implement AI into their life and work too.
Who’s it for
Given our experience of using AI in business, we thought this was the most natural place for us to help others too. In particular we're building the community for small business owners, solopreneurs, and aspiring entrepreneurs. We want to help them use AI to do more with less.
Zeneca’s built one of the most well known communities in the Web3 space ZenAcademy, and a huge 400k following on X and 34k on his Substack. He’s spent the last 3 years getting deeper and deeper in AI and has created his own solopreneur venture with his AI agent yoshizen.co.
His highly popular newsletter has been focusing more and more on AI content. In particular he released a great post just this week on using local LLM models.
Frank’s also gotten very deep into AI over the past years and now installs agents like OpenClaw and Hermes into small businesses to accelerate their productivity through his own company Order of Work.
He’s got some great case studies already, like one of our community members Jason who runs a construction company and used to take 2 hours to create an invoice. With his OpenClaw AI Agent it now takes him literally just 5 minutes to do the same work, not to mention all the other virtual-assistance that his agent provides him.
As for me, I've also been building with AI for a long time now. Anyone who's followed this blog will know I've been writing about it since as far back as March 2023, when I wrote a post on leveraging AI as a Web3 builder.
And since last year I’ve been building Yieldseeker, an AI agent platform for creating your own yield-maximising agents in DeFi.
Together the three of us are taking our expertise and packaging it all up into a community, that as I said earlier, is aimed at helping small business owners and solopreneurs to do more with less through AI!
What do you get
The Stoa of AI is still in its early stages, but we're making sure it provides a lot of value for a relatively low cost from the get-go.
When you join you immediately get access to two live weekly calls, currently scheduled for Wednesday and Friday.
The Wednesday one is the “Business Review” call led by Frank. Community members bring their own businesses to get real feedback on how to integrate AI solutions to increase productivity, backed up by Frank’s actual case studies.
Meanwhile the Friday one is our “Vibecoding” call led by myself. This is where we use the latest AI development tools to build useful software products for your business, and learn the skills to do this without needing to have a technical background.
In recent Friday calls we've been learning these core skills through a fun example, by building a Snake game collaboratively using GitHub and modern AI tools without writing a single line of code ourselves!
All recordings are in the Classroom section of the community, so you can already rewatch 20+ calls, or go straight to the specific topics that interest you.
Beyond the calls, we're building up a series of courses. The first is "Getting Started with AI", which covers some foundational frameworks on how to interact with AI.
We've got another course in progress called "Setting up an AI agent", which will teach you how to set up your own OpenClaw or Hermes agent. Plus I'm going to create one on the use of Claude Code and Codex, covering GitHub and collaborative development along the way. And in time we'll certainly create more courses too.
Then there's the community forum where you can post any questions or comments. There's a specific "support" tag so that if you have anything you're uncertain of, whether working through the courses and calls or building AI into your workflow, you can get asynchronous support from us directly.
This is all without even mentioning that you also get a community of like-minded individuals to meet and learn from, who are themselves using AI in weird and wonderful ways in their lives and businesses.
Finally, from time to time we also do additional spontaneous calls and events, like bringing in special guests to speak with.
Get in early
As you can see, even at this early stage we're already providing a lot of value and aim to provide more and more.
If you do decide to join now, you lock in the early pricing of $79/month or $749/year. We're already at over 100 members and when we hit 125 we'll up the price to $99/month or $999/year.
I've been in crypto for 10+ years now and love everything about the technology. But I do believe AI is the single most disruptive technology in the world right now, even more so than crypto/Web3, which is why I've personally moved into the space that crosses over between both technologies!
I also believe that if you're a business owner or aspiring entrepreneur you should at the very least be playing around with AI. The productivity gains are incredible and it'd be a huge mistake not to get more deeply involved right now.
Our community can provide you with a faster path to getting results with AI, but whether you choose to join us or not the most important thing is that you simply use AI regularly in your own day-to-day. And if you do decide to join us then I’ll see on you on the inside!
Whenever you’re ready, these are the main ways I can help you:
Want high crypto returns? Earn up to 14% APY with Yieldseeker!
Love Web3 & AI? Follow @afoxinweb3 on X for insights!
Entrepreneur using AI? Join our AI community to accelerate your results!
Building a Web3 app? Get our expert product development support!