TL;DR
- Most AI use falls into "make stuff for me" — but the overlooked category is "mirror things back to me."
- Mirror workflows score, flag, and surface what you'd never tell yourself.
- Start with one recurring meeting and one mirror workflow. Ship that. Stack from there.
- The best mirror workflows run automatically — you don't ask, they just surface.
- Actions get buried in transcripts. AI can extract them before you forget.
What I've Learned
When most people think about AI workflows, they think about generation — drafts, summaries, content. That's the "make" side. But there's another category that's easy to overlook: using AI to mirror things back to you.
I surveyed CEOs in my Hampton group to find workflows I might be missing. What came back surprised me — the most interesting ones weren't about making stuff. They were about surfacing things you'd never tell yourself.
Mirror workflows score your performance, flag your blind spots, and surface things you'd never tell yourself. Jeff Brewer gets meeting effectiveness scores after every call — clarity, decisiveness, interruptions. Dan Shipper has Granola flag moments where he's avoiding confrontation. Wade Foster scores team participation against the "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" framework and sends tailored feedback to each person.
The interesting pattern: feedback from a bot lands differently than feedback from a person. No one's reading into motives or wondering if there's an agenda. So people actually engage with it.
Matt Liotta built something wild for his sales team: an AI agent that answers the phone as a prospect. Salespeople call it to practice cold calling, get scored, and get feedback after. The surprising part? The top performers — the ones who don't need improvement — started using it as a daily warmup before real calls. Different personas, different voices. It's like batting practice for sales.
I used Pete Sena's mega prompt to analyze 17 years of my Obsidian notes for my annual review. It surfaced patterns I'd completely forgotten — wins I'd never connected, growth areas I'd been circling for a decade. That's the kind of feedback you can't get from a coach or a friend. They don't have access to 17 years of your thinking.
The make side is valuable. But if you're only using AI to generate stuff, you're probably sleeping on the mirror side. Pick one recurring meeting. Pick one mirror workflow from this episode. Ship that. Then stack from there.
Timestamps
- 0:00 — Andrew's question: what AI workflows am I missing?
- 1:00 — The Make vs Mirror Matrix framework
- 2:30 — Jeff Brewer's meeting effectiveness scorer (Motion)
- 4:30 — Dan Shipper's confrontation avoidance flags (Granola)
- 5:15 — Wade Foster's "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" team scoring (Zapier)
- 6:40 — Pete Sena's EPIC annual reflection prompt (17 years of notes)
- 9:45 — Chris Brownridge's transcript → agent → action routing
- 11:10 — Matt Liotta's AI sales prospect trainer (Parslee)
- 12:45 — Ben's meeting → content ideas automation (Fireflies + Zapier)
- 14:00 — Rachel Wolan's AI chief of staff
- 15:00 — The pattern: mirror workflows surface what you'd never tell yourself
Tools & Resources
- Motion AI Exec Coach — meeting scoring with customizable prompts
- Granola — local-first meeting notes (add confrontation-flagging to your post-meeting prompt)
- Zapier — automation platform for transcript → feedback workflows
- Fireflies — meeting transcription with webhooks and MCP support
- Pete Sena's EPIC Prompt — annual reflection mega prompt
- Chris Brownridge's GitHub repo — reverse-engineered Granola API for transcript → agent routing
- Ben's Zap template + AI prompts — meeting → content ideas automation (Zapier clears AI config, so grab both)
- Rachel Wolan's AI Chief of Staff — How I AI episode