The value of true A-player employees has never been higher.

Why? Because now you can learn pretty much anything on your own.

The variable is how fast and effectively you can learn it.

Here’s what happened last week:

I have been making these insane lead magnets for people where I “write” 60 posts for you as well as give you profile rewrites and lead mag ideas.

As usual, I had a crazy idea that worked and drove motion, but I hadn’t thought at all about scale.

Turns out if you create 60 posts for each person, if you make 100 you’ve made 6000 posts.

Each post lives in a line of a CMS somewhere.

And the Webflow CMS limit is 10,000.

Oops.

We almost immediately hit the Webflow limits, sped right over the Webflow <> Airtable synching tool limits.

And my biggest concern was that Airtable’s row limits are 50k, which is only 800 scorecards.

At the current rate we’d hit that in a couple of months max.

Plus - I had been using Airtable’s built-in AI credits becuase I have a lot of free Airtable credits. But they have a 200,000 per-month max and we absolutely blew past that.

The solution: We had to build a custom app, quicksmart.

We used a Supabase backend, n8n for the automations, and an app called Wized to bind Supabase items to Webflow front end items.

This mean that we could scale forever but still enjoy the benefits of Webflow’s customizations.

The only issue was that we had never done this before.

Many of these apps were new to us. We don’t have any “trained developers” on the team.

But I knew Iza, who came to me as a “VA” (whatever that title implies), could take it on.

She’s super good at automations and has demonstrated she could learn fast.

So I built a Claude Code project with all the required n8n JSON, all the Supabase tables, and the Wized documentation, as well as a step by step guide for the migration.

She was able to break it into pieces, work through each chunk, and get the entire thing done in less than a week.

Plus, in the process, she learned about databases, learned how to use Claude Code, and learned about frontend Javascript.

It was an absolutely insane feat.

But if you train your team to not look at problems and say “I don’t know how to do that”, and instead assume that it’s easy and they can figure it out - you can do anything.

So now we will be finishing scorecards and sending them out asap.

If you would like one, reply SCORECARD to this email :)