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How the founder of Morning Brew built a Claude content machine that never runs out of ideas and never sounds like slop | Alex Lieberman

How I AI

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How I AI

How I AI

1 DAYS AGO

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Alex Lieberman co-founded Morning Brew in college and grew it into one of the most-read business newsletters in the world before selling it to Business Insider. Now he’s the co-founder and co-managing partner of Tenex. In this episode, Alex explains why di...

Highlights

Alex Lieberman, co-founder of Morning Brew and now CEO of Tenex, shares his detailed framework for building an AI-powered content machine that avoids generic output. He explains how he uses Claude to create a multi-step system that generates ideas, interviews him for his real thoughts, and drafts posts in his authentic voice, all while turning his employees into a powerful marketing channel through internal competitions.
00:00
Poor output reflects the user's input, not the AI.
05:36
Employees are a company's best marketing channel
06:59
AI can raise the floor but cap the ceiling for great writers
12:08
Subject matter expertise is essential for reimagining work with AI.
19:22
A Writer's Council scores and revises posts until they reach a perfect 10/10.
28:26
Avoiding AI slop by training the machine on personal interview transcripts
33:17
Encouraging employees to build personal brands is a strong value proposition.
36:45
Deep system understanding with agentic adaptability.

Chapters

Introduction to Alex Lieberman
00:00
Why Alex built a content machine
02:35
Alex’s thoughts on AI slop
06:56
Mapping the workflow from scratch
09:00
The six-step Content Machine setup
13:24
Live demo: Oracle, Interview Panel, and Writer’s Council in action
23:11
Employee advocacy: the Tenex Creator Cup and $5K prize pool
30:38
Lightning round: great engineers, AI use cases, slop fixes
36:45

Transcript

Alex Lieberman: creating content has afforded me so many opportunities, but I am capped on the amount of time that I can spend creating content every day. And so I've been basically thinking about how can I re-engineer my content process to be AI native or...