AI Rabbit Holes

AI Rabbit Holes is where smart business owners, creators, and marketers go to skip the AI hype and get expert insights about artificial intelligence. Hosted by Ryan Doser, this podcast unpacks what’s actually working in AI. From the latest AI tools to automation strategies, and how creators, founders, and marketers can apply it today.

AI Rabbit Holes is a technology podcast hosted by Ryan Doser, with 40 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Ryan Doser hosts AI Rabbit Holes, a technology show with 40 episodes published.

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  Claude Opus 5.5 Blew Me Away. Best AI Model of 2026?

  Sep 28, 202642 min

  ⁠ Get My Free AI Marketing Guide ⁠ ⁠ Join My AI Community ⁠ In this video I interview Aaron Makelky about why Claude Opus 5.5 became my AI daily driver again for marketing work, and how it stacks up against GPT-6 and Meta Muse. We tested each model on a few tasks, and also cover the news of Custom GPTs going away. My Tools & Products ⁠My Social Media Automation Tool⁠ ⁠My AI Marketing Skills⁠ Video References: - ⁠Aaron Makelky on YouTube⁠ - ⁠Aaron Makelky on X⁠ - Claude Opus 5.5 - GPT-6 Models - Meta Muse ⏰ Time Stamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:23 Which New Model Should Be Your Daily Driver? 03:50 Daily Driver vs Orchestration Models 06:15 OpenRouter's Model Rankings 07:29 Should You Even Install Meta Muse? 09:18 What Meta Muse Actually Does 12:27 Is Meta Muse a Data Grab? 13:29 Meta's Moats: Social Apps and Smart Glasses 15:23 Smart Glasses and Recording Consent 18:44 Landing Page Test: Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Sol vs Meta Muse 24:10 Build Your Own AI Model Test 25:31 Email Test: Which Model Wrote the Best Subject Line 28:23 Stop Worrying About Claude vs ChatGPT 31:42 Terminal vs Desktop Apps 34:08 The ChatGPT Desktop App's Best Features 35:54 A Skill That Replaced a Custom GPT 39:12 Custom GPTs Are Going Away 40:41 Final Thoughts

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  The $2K/Month AI Business Anyone Can Start (Copy This)

  Sep 25, 202627 min

  Get My Free AI Marketing Guide ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Join My AI Community ⁠ In this video I interview Corey Ganim about his AI Concierge offer where business owners pay him up to $2K a month to be their AI guy on demand. We cover how he closed five of six conversations to hit $8K in monthly recurring revenue in 10 days, and how he lands clients through local meetups. My Tools & Products ⁠⁠My Social Media Automation Tool⁠⁠ ⁠⁠My AI Marketing Skills Video References: - My AI Concierge Service - Corey Ganim on YouTube - Corey Ganim Website - The $1K AI Audit Business (Corey's first episode) ⏰ Time Stamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:52 AI Assessments vs AI Concierge 02:35 What an AI Concierge Actually Is 03:02 How He Landed His First Five Clients 05:48 Do You Need to Be an AI Expert? 07:10 Who Can Actually Afford This 08:54 Built a Claude Skill? You're Qualified 10:28 Getting Clients From a Local AI Meetup 12:37 The Warm Outreach Text That Books Calls 14:39 Will This Model Last? 16:56 Niche Down to the Industry You Know 19:18 Pricing and Margins 21:30 The Transcript Deliverable Most People Miss 23:11 What Clients Actually Get 24:38 Final Thoughts

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  SaaS SEO Is Broken. Here's What Actually Makes Money

  Sep 23, 202636 min

  Get My Free AI Marketing Guide ⁠ ⁠ Join My AI Community ⁠ In this video I interview Sam Dunning, founder of Breaking B2B, an SEO and AI search agency working with B2B SaaS companies. We break down his SaaS SEO playbook for 2026: what drives pipeline, the commercial page types most SaaS sites are missing, and how to show up when buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI search for software like yours. My Tools & Products ⁠My Social Media Automation Tool⁠ ⁠My AI Marketing Skills Video References: - Sam Dunning on YouTube - Sam Dunning on LinkedIn - Breaking B2B ⏰ Time Stamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:44 The SaaS Clients He Turns Away 02:46 Your Brand Doesn't Show Up in ChatGPT 03:51 Start With Bottom of Funnel SEO 05:17 Money Keywords and the Pages You're Missing 07:20 Where to Find Real Search Demand 08:38 Mining Sales Calls for Customer Language 09:28 Why Top of Funnel Is a Trap 11:01 YouTube Is a Different Beast 13:18 Breaking Down a Real Client Listicle 17:08 Unique Context Beats AI Copy-Paste 19:03 Should You Rank Yourself Number One? 20:35 Barging Your Way Into LLMs 23:20 Optimizing for Agents vs Humans 25:07 Attribution Is the Devil of Marketing 27:29 What AI Rank Trackers Actually Miss 30:41 How People Will Buy SaaS in 12 Months 34:01 Final Thoughts

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  How to Use Open Source AI Models (Stop Wasting Money)

  Sep 21, 202630 min

  Get My Free AI Marketing Guide Join My AI Community In this video I interview Aaron Makelky, an AI consultant who has been running open source models for years. We cover which work open source AI models actually handle well, and how to use these models efficiently. My Tools & Products My Social Media Automation Tool My AI Marketing Skills Video References: - Aaron Makelky on YouTube - Aaron Makelky on X - OpenRouter - Arena LLM Leaderboard - Hermes Agent ⏰ Time Stamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:33 Why Open Source Models Cost a Fraction of Frontier 01:58 The John Deere Right-to-Repair Problem 02:56 The 3GB Model That Renames His Screenshots Offline 04:23 What Self-Hosting Actually Costs 05:13 Why Cloud Beats Local for Most People 07:28 Setting Up OpenRouter (One Key, Every Model) 09:45 Picking Models From the Arena Leaderboard 10:43 Why One API Key Changes Everything 12:12 Aaron's Hermes Setup 15:05 Running Models Side by Side 16:01 Running Gemma on Your Phone With Wi-Fi Off 19:23 Free Models Are Training on Your Data 20:58 Extracting Frontier Knowledge Into a Skill File 22:57 The Landing Page Results: Kimi vs GLM 24:03 How Far Behind Are They, Really? 25:06 Our Favorite Open Source Models 27:54 Final Thoughts

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  I Tested GPT-6 Astra vs Fable 5.1: Which is Worth $100?

  Sep 17, 202633 min

  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get my Free AI Marketing Guide⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join my AI Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit My Website In this video I interview Aaron Makelky, and we test GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 on real marketing work. We then decide whether ChatGPT Pro or Claude Max is the better $100 subscription. Video References: - ⁠Aaron Makelky Website⁠ - ⁠Aaron Makelky on YouTube⁠ - ⁠Aaron Makelky on X - GPT-6 Astra Details : - Claude Fable Details ⏰ Time Stamps: 00:00 Introduction to Aaron Makelky 00:32 Astra vs Fable: What's Actually Worth $1000 1:56 Why Aaron Won't Pay for Claude Max 03:30 Orchestrators, Not Daily Drivers 04:41 ChatGPT Pro vs Claude Max Plans and API Pricing 06:48 Test 1: Redesigning a $20K Landing Page 09:24 Fancy Doesn't Sell 10:09 Test 2: A Local Service Brand From One Prompt 12:26 Fable's Homepage vs Astra's Brand Guide 16:24 The AI-Built Rank and Rent Site 18:18 Aaron's Test: 17 Handwritten Pages to Long-Form Copy 20:11 Price Per Task, Not Price Per Token 21:07 Usage Limits and Who Keeps Your Prompts 22:20 Where OpenAI and Anthropic Are Headed 25:25 The Case for Open Source Chinese Models 26:29 What Each Company Optimized For 27:55 Ryan's Multi-Model Gatekeeper Setup 29:05 Final Thoughts

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