AI in business
How 5 people run sales, marketing, code and operations with AI, department by department.
How I run my company with 5 peopleI’m Hadi. I run Heffl with a team of 5 and a lot of AI. Every week we test new ways to use it in our business, our content and our everyday lives. The AI-First Club is where I share what works, for free.
I started building software in 2019. Heffl began bootstrapped, with 25 users in its first year. By year three, 3,000 teams were using it.
Then we went deep on AI. We made Heffl fully agentic, and we rebuilt the way our own company works around it.
We’re still a team of 5. AI writes all of our code, drafts our sales follow-ups and helps plan our marketing every week. One editor and AI ship four videos a day. People still own the decisions: what to build, who to talk to and what goes out to a customer.
We’re always testing something. Right now it’s how to market with AI, how to build software faster with it, how to grow an Instagram account with it and how to edit video with it.
I started sharing what we learn as free guides, and the comments kept coming. So I made one place for all of it.
How 5 people run sales, marketing, code and operations with AI, department by department.
How I run my company with 5 peopleThe systems behind our content: hooks, scripts, captions, replies and the comment funnels that send people to pages like this one.
Instagram Agent Skill setup guideHow we cut talking-head videos, add subtitles and pick thumbnails with reusable AI skills. It’s how one editor keeps up with four videos a day.
Our video workflowAI writes all of our code. I’ll show you how we work with it, and how to build small tools for your own problems.
Our engineering workflowMy ustad gave me a Telegram course for learning Arabic. Finding each lesson meant scrolling back years, so I used ChatGPT to build a website that keeps my place. That’s the kind of small fix I share here.
35+ tools sorted by the job, so you know what to open for writing, research, design or video.
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Read the case studyIn my ranking video I sorted businesses into three columns: basic, smart and AI-first. In an AI-first business, AI runs the step by default and a person steps in when it matters.
Most of us start in the basic column, using AI to write a caption or summarise a PDF. The club is how you move up, one workflow at a time.
Basic saves you a few minutes. AI-first keeps the business moving while you’re with a client.
Everything I share is something our team uses or is testing right now.
Every new playbook, guide and tool list lands in the club the day it comes out.
What we're testing in marketing, development and content, including what didn't work.
Written for business owners and curious people. You don't need to code.
Yes. The club and every resource in it are free.
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No. I write for business owners and creators. When something needs setup, I show every step.
Business owners, creators, freelancers, students, and anyone who wants AI to save them time.
New free resources as they come out, the AI workflows we’re testing inside our company, and what we learned from them.
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