I asked Claude Code to make me as much money as possible

In This Issue

• Brain², ClickUp's AI that builds the finished thing (decks, dashboards, pages) instead of just assisting
• Nate tested 4 Claude Code upgrades to see which ones actually move the needle on income
• Kobe Shemesh closed $40k upfront plus a 20% rev share on a single custom AI build
• Fable 5 is back online, and Anthropic shipped Sonnet 5 the same day

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I asked Claude Code to make me as much money as possible

Nate tested 4 Claude Code upgrades to see which ones actually moved the needle on income. The answer: all four. Together, they cut time waste, stopped context rot, and let him run parallel agents on revenue-producing work at the same time.

The mistake most people make: Running Claude Code like a single-session tool. One task, one window, done. That approach hits a ceiling fast because you're still the bottleneck for every decision.

How this helps you: You'll see exactly which upgrades Nate actually kept using (and how to stack them) to run revenue-producing work faster without burning hours on setup.

Winning Is All We Do

$40k upfront plus 20% rev share on a single custom AI build

What happened: Kobe Shemesh closed a deal on a custom AI build: $40k upfront and a 20% revenue share on top. One project, two income streams. He got there by going deep on Nate's fundamentals instead of chasing the next new tool.

The opportunity for you: Custom builds command this kind of money because they're not a product anyone can buy off a shelf. Clients pay a premium when you understand their system well enough to build something specific to it. The members who land deals like this are the ones who stopped learning in breadth and started building in depth.

Stories like this happen every week inside AIS+. AIS Live (July 11-12) is where you see exactly how: practitioners walking through real client projects on stage, from first outreach to signed invoice.

In the News

Fable 5 is back, and Sonnet 5 just shipped

The news: Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models are back online after a three week suspension. The U.S. Department of Commerce lifted the export restrictions on July 1, restoring access after Anthropic patched a jailbreak vulnerability that Amazon researchers had flagged in mid-June. The same day, Anthropic shipped Sonnet 5: its most agentic Sonnet yet, with capability close to Opus 4.8 at a fraction of the cost, live now on Free, Pro, and Max plans.

How it affects automation: Two model updates landing the same day means more room to build with. Fable 5 brings back a model some of you had workflows built around before the suspension. Sonnet 5 is a straight upgrade for anyone routing agentic tasks through Sonnet tier models to keep costs down. If your stack runs on Claude, this is worth testing this week.