SUMMARY BY CHATGPT

?? Core Idea: What “Agent Mode” Actually Is
Regular prompt:
• One-time request
• Like asking an intern a single question
Agent mode:
• Multi-step execution system
• Like a skilled virtual assistant
• Gathers info ? analyzes ? takes actions ? delivers outcomes
• Can follow if/then logic and workflows
?? Key shift:
You’re no longer just asking for answers — you’re delegating tasks
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?? Key Capabilities of Agent Mode
1. Research ? Then DO Something With It
• Not just “find info”
• Example:
o Research a topic
o Turn it into a slide deck
o Apply your branding/colors
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2. Report & Presentation Creation
• Compile data into:
o Reports
o Tables
o Graphs
o Slide decks
?? Best practice:
Feed it your own source material to avoid hallucinations
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3. Trip Planning (Multi-Constraint Tasks)
Example:
• Find hotel (given)
• Locate:
o Restaurants (within 1 mile, rating, budget)
o Copy/print shop (24/7 preferred)
Output:
• Structured table with distances, menus, etc.
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4. Financial Analysis
• Upload P&L or expenses
• Ask:
o “Where can I save $500/month?”
?? It identifies patterns and overspending
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5. Content Creation (Advanced)
• Combine:
o External research
o Your content
Create:
• Courses
• Video scripts (with hooks, CTAs)
• Structured content systems
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6. Outreach & Prospecting
Example workflow:
• Find affiliates (criteria-based)
• Research each one
• Generate customized outreach emails
?? Important:
• Don’t fully automate sending (risk to your reputation)
• Always review before sending
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7. Recurring Automated Research
This is where it gets powerful:
Example:
• Daily search for:
o Office space
o Specific size, location, parking
?? Difference from normal search:
• Runs continuously
• Updates you as new data appears
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8. Job or Opportunity Monitoring
• Define criteria:
o Salary
o Role
o Industry
?? Agent keeps scanning and reporting
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9. Workflow Automation (Advanced)
Using tools like Zapier:
• A ? B ? C ? D automation chains
• Example:
o Find leads ? enrich data ? contact them ? follow up
?? This is where agent mode becomes business infrastructure
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?? How Prompts Change in Agent Mode
Instead of:
“What’s the best dog leash?”
You say:
Find best dog leashes ? compare prices ? gather reviews ? list materials ? present in a table with links
?? You’re defining a workflow, not a question
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?? Important Warnings
• AI can still hallucinate
• Always:
o Verify outputs
o Provide trusted inputs when possible
• Be cautious with:
o Auto-emailing
o Auto-calling
o Anything that acts publicly in your name
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?? Strategic Insight (Tom’s Approach)
• He usually waits for tech to mature (“double-edged technology”)
• Now agent mode is:
o Usable
o Accessible
o Worth adopting
?? Translation for you:
This is early but usable leverage — ideal time to implement
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?? Bottom Line
Agent mode =
AI that executes workflows, not just answers questions
If you’re building a business (which you are), this becomes:
• A research assistant
• A content team
• A marketing assistant
• A data analyst
All in one system.

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Episode 1107 – AI Agent Mode
[00:00:08] Welcome to Screw the Commute. The entrepreneurial podcast dedicated to getting you out of the car and into the money, with your host, lifelong entrepreneur and multimillionaire, Tom Antion.
[00:00:24] Hey everybody, it's Tom here with episode 1107 of Screw the Commute podcast. Today we're going to talk about the agent mode of ChatGPT. And I'm sure the other AI models have agent modes. They might call them something different. And I don't claim to be the expert on this stuff, but I'm using these things to my advantage as fast as I can. I'll tell you that. All right. I hope you didn't miss episode 1106. That was fake it until you break it. And this was telling you what to do and what not to do to really build credibility in the marketplace, even if you're brand new. All right, pick up a copy of my automation book at screwthecommute.com/automatefree version 3.0 is the latest. However, if you hear me talking about short keys, which I've been talking about for 100 years, it's been discontinued as a program and now it's a browser extension. So just keep that in mind till I update that book. All right. Check out my mentor program at greatinternetmarketingtraining.com. And my school at IMTCVA.org, certified to operate by SCHEV.
[00:01:38] All right, so let's talk about agent mode. Now, what's the difference between a prompt just a regular prompt and being an agent mode. And the prompts are a little bit different, I got to tell you. So a prompt is just to gather information. Pretty much the agent mode is to gather the information and then act on it on your behalf based on what you tell it to do.
[00:02:07] So that's why the prompts are a little bit different. Now I'm going to give you a bunch of things you can do with agent mode. But what you want to think about it is that a, a prompt is kind of like a, just a one time thing you told an intern to do. And agent mode is like a highly skilled virtual assistant that's going to go all the way through and, and think for itself after you prompt it properly and tell it what to do and go do multiple steps for you and come up with outcomes for you and also can use what they call if then logic so you can tell it, hey, if you find this, then do this, do a. But if you find this other thing, then do be that kind of thing. So it's a little more sophisticated than a regular prompt. But some of the things you can do is you can have it report, report or compile reports for you. It'll actually make presentations for you. You can tell it, okay, go out and and find this XYZ information and then compile it into a slide deck for me of ten slides and use this color scheme that I'm going to tell you about and so forth. So it took, it went out and found the information and then did something with the information.
[00:03:39] Of course, I would always double check what it did because you don't want to use a hallucinations. It's, it's still going to be subject to hallucinations. And if you don't know what that is, that's where it just makes up information out of clear blue. So you want to either feed at the sources that you want it to use. It might be your notes from from a speech you did. You can feed it to that and have it use that as the source where it's going to grab the information to make a slide deck for you, something like that. And let's see what else. Now it'll do deep research and somebody says, well, that's pretty much the same. You have deep research as agent mode, deep research. And I agree they're very, very similar. It's just that agent mode can, like I said, go and do stuff, do more stuff with the information it comes out with. Another thing people are using it for is the trip planner. Let's say I'm doing a speaking engagement in Los Angeles and I say, okay, I want I have to stay at this hotel and I want to know a three restaurants within a short one mile Uber drive that's three stars or are better. And with this kind of budget for my. For that. And I also want to know where the closest copy place like Kinko's is. It doesn't have to be Kinko's, but it has to be a copy place that's hopefully open 24 over seven, you know? So anyway, I can tell with all this stuff and then it's going to go find all this information for me and lay it out in whatever format I tell it.
[00:05:26] It could be, you know, lay this out in a graph or a table of the different restaurants and the distance from the hotel and the addresses and the menus for them. You know, whatever, whatever you tell it, it's going to go out and find it and then compile it for you. So that's like a trip planner now. Also, people use it as a financial analyst, so you could upload your profit and loss statements and say, hey, I'd like to save about $500 a month. Where's the best places? From what you can see that I have done in the past three months, and where I could save about $500 a month. And so it'll analyze all the things and tell you where it appears to be. Overspending. And I mean, just crazy stuff it'll do for you. And of course, it can be used for content creation. So you can say, hey, go out and find this amount of information or this type of information, and here's my information on it. And let's combine it and create a three module video course on, I mean, just whatever you can dream up.
[00:06:37] You can tell it to do. You can tell it to create video scripts with the proper hooks and body and calls to action. Based on this content that I'm creating, that's going to be put on YouTube and Vimeo. You know, so you can really go deep with what you want to do. Another thing is outreach. So no, I don't really want and trust to hook it to my gmail and have it send automatic emails out to people. No, you can have it do that. But I don't trust it because if something was weird in there, then it's under my name. So I don't do that. But anyway, I could have it say, hey, go out and find here's the product I'm trying to promote. Go out and find ten affiliates that have greater than 20,000 in their database, and they promote similar types of products, find their contact information, and create customized emails for each one of them based on what you can learn about them online. And of course, I'm going to look at each one and, and tweak it before I send it to them to be an affiliate for whatever product I'm promoting, say so. That's outreach kind of thing. I mean, you can take it to the nth degree where you can hook it up to dialers and make phone calls. Uh, I don't really do that kind of stuff, but you could do it. Sending texts, those things.
[00:08:12] Then, uh, recurring info is similar to the scheduling from just regular scheduling of ChatGPT, but you can have it do research before the schedule occurs. So let's say I was looking for a new place to house my school. And so I'd say, hey, go out and within five miles of my address, my home address, because I don't want to go a long way to get to my school. Find every day. Find current listings for 3500ft². Office space, uh, preferably on the first floor. You know, whatever the details were, and with at least ten dedicated parking spaces and report that to me every day. And if I was looking for a place for my school. So that's where it's going out and finding the information and then compiling it and delivering it to me. So and it's going to change every day. That's the difference between just go out and find, you know, some office space for me today. I want you to check, you know, the places every day and then report it to me under that criteria. Now you can do the same. You know, the dreaded j-o-b, which I don't talk about a lot on this podcast, but if it was the dreaded j-o-b, you can say, go out and find job listings and give them the criteria, the salary range and the, the title that you're looking for, the type of job you're looking for, and it'll go out and do it for you.
[00:09:53] And then you can always hook it to a thing called Zapier. Zapier has a thing called copilot now, which will help build these flows for you. So it goes out and does X and then it goes or let's say A goes out and does A, and then once it finds out what A is, it does B with that information, and then it does C and D and E as far as you want to lay it out there. So that's a little bit out of my pay grade. You don't do that kind of stuff too much. But but you could I mean, you could have go out and find A do B with it. And then for those phone numbers you can find, call these people and say this about this thing, you know, so it's just crazy, this stuff, this stuff will do. But you can start basically just by going to ChatGPT and start a new chat. And then if it's not listed right, there is agent mode, you just click more and then there'll be agent mode and you can prompt it. But like I said, the prompt is a little different because you're giving it multiple things to do. You know what they call workflows rather than just one thing like, hey, who's got the best dog leash out there? You know? So you're saying, okay, who's got the best dog leash? And then go out and reach out to them for prices and availability and then find reviews on the specific dog leashes and, and then give me a table with all the dog leashes, their prices, their links, their materials, they're made from.
[00:11:34] You know, it's just doing a whole bunch of stuff rather than just who's got the best dog leash. That's kind of a juvenile explanation of agents because I'm brand new to this. Most people are they're learning this stuff as we go. Some of this stuff's been around for a while, but it's evolving very quickly. And like, if you've listened to me a lot, you know that I use double edged technology, right? I wait till people figure most everything out and then I dive in and make money with it. But we're kind of in the midst of that. Some of these people have been using agents for several years, and I just poo pooed it because it wasn't to the point where it was easy enough for mere mortals to actually do this stuff. So anyway, there you go. That's agent mode of ChatGPT. And check out my mentor program at greatinternetmarketingtraining.com. And my school at IMTCVA.org, certified to operate by the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia. But you don't have to be in Virginia because it's quality distance learning. All right. Check out agent mode and I will catch you on the next episode. See you later.