A model that can work for hours alone, run many sub-agents and admit when it doesn't know turns single prompts into sellable deliverables, so you can price by result instead of by the hour.
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A freelancer or agency owner who bills hourly and wants to see how a long-running model could turn the same work into fixed-price productized services.
A solo founder looking for concrete starter prompts for business audits, niche research and red-teaming a quarterly plan.
A content creator who wants prompts for cutting short-form video, building explainers and repurposing one long episode into many formats.
Someone curious whether one person can now prototype physical hardware, parts list, circuit and firmware included, from a text prompt.
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You want a rigorous benchmark or technical evaluation of the model. This is a hype-forward tour of use cases, and the results shown are mostly unverified.
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TL;DR
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The host argues that Fable 5.2's ability to work 10 to 12 hours unattended, orchestrate many sub-agents, operate computers and say 'I don't know' opens new ways to earn. He gives twelve prompts in four groups. Money: audit a business, do a freelance job end to end, research 100 niches, rebuild legacy software, check a boring-business deal. Productivity: an interview-me skill builder, driving apps with no API, red-teaming a plan. Content: short-form editing, niche explainers, one episode into every format. Hardware: design a device with parts, circuit, firmware and enclosure. The shared move is to price by deliverable, not hours, and to verify outputs yourself.
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Promise of twelve prompts across money, productivity, video and hardware, with a like-gated prompt giveaway.
01:00 – 02:05
02 · Prompt 1: Audit your entire business
Model works 10 to 12 hours unattended and returns a ranked list of ten money-making changes with evidence.
02:05 – 03:46
03 · Prompt 2: A freelance job end to end
Official freelance score rose from 21% to 41%, so do a posted job and quote a fixed price.
03:46 – 04:33
04 · Prompt 3: A hundred niches at once
One sub-agent per niche returns complaints, spend and reachability in a ranked table.
04:33 – 05:25
05 · Prompt 4: Rebuild the ancient software
Turn a client's 12-year-old spreadsheet into a simple web app priced per output.
05:25 – 06:54
06 · Prompt 5: Deal checker for a boring business
Model now says 'I don't know' and flags each P&L number as verified, unverified or suspicious.
06:54 – 08:53
07 · Results from prompts
Shows the business audit and the Upwork equity-analyst report in progress.
08:53 – 09:33
08 · Prompt 6: Grill me
Interview of 20 questions turned into a skill file the model follows from then on.
09:33 – 10:07
09 · Prompt 7: Operate legacy apps
Use computer-operation ability on apps with no API, such as invoice export and bank matching.
10:07 – 11:11
10 · Prompt 8: Red team my plan
Argue against a quarterly plan like an investor who wants to pass; feedback beat a human advisor's.
11:11 – 12:39
11 · Video and marketing engineering
One-prompt documentary and explainer videos make faceless vertical channels a cheap distribution play.
12:39 – 13:05
12 · Prompt 9: Short-form editor
Cut silences and retakes from a raw talking head, pick the best 45 seconds, caption and export vertical.
13:05 – 13:24
13 · Prompt 10: Niche explainer videos
Script, animate, render a 60-second explainer and make five variations of the first line.
13:24 – 13:56
14 · Prompt 11: One episode, every format
Turn a transcript into a PDF playbook, five tweets, a newsletter and a free tool, flagging unverified claims.
13:56 – 16:42
15 · Prompt 12: One-person hardware company
Design a device with parts list, circuit, firmware, printable enclosure and cost to make 100.
16:42 – 17:41
16 · A minimalist phone idea
The model names a thumb-keyboard 4G handheld PlaneOne with a 2.7 inch memory LCD as an anti-doomscroll phone.
17:41 – 18:31
17 · Design and mockups
The document includes power rails, pin map, modem connections and keyboard matrix; vibe manufacturing is here.
18:31 – 19:35
18 · Closing thoughts
Fable 5.2 as the most thoughtful model, better at driving tools like Blender and DaVinci; ask viewers for their use cases.
Atomic Insights
Lines worth screenshotting.
A model that works 10 to 12 hours alone can take a job that would cost a week of high-end consultant time and finish it unattended.
Freelance work no longer has to be sold hourly: if a loop can do the job, you can sell the result as a fixed-price product.
Sub-agents make market research parallel: one prompt can send an agent into each of 100 niches and return a single ranked table.
Old spreadsheets and legacy tools that businesses have run on for 12 years are a rebuild opportunity priced per output.
A model that says 'I don't know' makes finance and legal tasks, like checking a seller's P&L, usable where hallucination used to block them.
Marking every number as verified, unverified or suspicious turns a P&L check into an audit trail instead of a guess.
Having the model interview you with 20 questions and then write a skill file captures how you decide, so every later session starts from your rules.
Computer-use strength means apps that never had an API, like an old invoicing tool, can still be automated.
Asking the model to argue against your plan like an investor who wants to pass surfaces the one thing that would change that investor's mind.
Faceless explainer videos at a few dollars each are a distribution play, and social media works like cheap real estate that earns ad revenue and sellable followers.
One long-form episode can be turned into a playbook PDF, tweets, a newsletter and a small free tool in a single prompt.
Single-prompt hardware design now returns a parts list with prices, a circuit design, firmware and a printable enclosure, plus the cost to make 100 units.
Treat model output as likely correct but not guaranteed: the host still says not to trust it 100 percent, the same way you wouldn't fully trust any person's first pass.
Takeaway
Sell the result, not the hours
WHAT TO LEARN
A model that works unattended, runs sub-agents and admits uncertainty lets one person deliver whole jobs, so price by deliverable and verify what it hands back.
02Prompt 1: Audit your entire business
Give the model a job that would take a consultant a week, ask for a ranked list with evidence, and let it run for hours with a running log.
03Prompt 2: A freelance job end to end
Do a real posted freelance job end to end, then ask which parts are confident, which need human checking, and what fixed price to charge.
04Prompt 3: A hundred niches at once
Use one sub-agent per niche to research 100 markets at once, and ask for one ranked table with the five worth building for.
05Prompt 4: Rebuild the ancient software
Rebuild old client software like a 12-year-old spreadsheet as a simple web app with data moved over and a one-page staff guide, priced per output.
06Prompt 5: Deal checker for a boring business
Ask the model to mark each number in a seller's P&L as verified, unverified or suspicious, and to list questions to ask before making an offer.
09Prompt 6: Grill me
Have the model interview you with 20 questions, then save the answers as a skill file so later sessions follow your decision rules.
10Prompt 7: Operate legacy apps
Point the model at legacy apps with no API and have it ask before sending anything, so automation stays reviewable.
12Video and marketing engineering
Turn one long episode into a playbook, tweets, a newsletter and a free tool, and ask it to flag any claim it could not verify.
15Prompt 12: One-person hardware company
Ask for a device design with parts prices, circuit, firmware, enclosure and cost for 100 units, but treat it as a draft that still needs expert review.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
Sub-agent
A separate model instance spun up by the main model to handle one slice of a task, such as researching a single niche, so many slices run in parallel.
Productized service
A service sold at a fixed price for a defined result instead of by the hour.
Vibe manufacturing
The host's term for designing physical products, including parts, circuits and firmware, by prompting an AI instead of engineering by hand.
Skill file
A saved set of instructions the model follows in future sessions, here built from answers to an interview about how you make decisions.
Red team
To argue against your own plan from an adversary's point of view in order to find weaknesses before others do.
Resources
Things they pointed at.
00:00productClaude Fable 5.2
02:40productUpwork
16:50productThe Minimalist Phone
Quotables
Lines you could clip.
17:10
“With 5.2, we are truly here.”
short claim on vibe manufacturing→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
06:12
“The I don't know era.”
names a shift in model behavior→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
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Fable 5 .2 is here and I wasn't going to make this video, but it is so insane and there are so many ways that you can make money with it, be more productive, figure out ways to create hardware. And today I'm going to go through a bunch of the prompts that you just need to know about because it's going to connect things in your brain.
It's going to give you ideas and I haven't seen anyone talk about it. So By the end of this episode, you are going to learn how to make money, how to be productive, how to think about building things like hardware with Fable 5 .2.
I'm going to give away all the prompts. And if you stick to the end, I think you're going to understand how to use Fable 5 .2 better than 99 % of people. So like, comment, and subscribe.
And if this episode gets 5 ,000 likes, I'll include in the pinned comment a link to all the prompts and some extra bonus ones. So go and pause, go and do it, and then I'll see you at the end of the episode. Enjoy.
When you're going to open up Claude, you know, if you're on, I think, the max plan, it's going to say, like, go and, you know, bring complex ideas to life with animations and 3D worlds and describe the result you want. So you're going to go ahead and click try Fable 5 .2. Let's start with the first prompt.
So one really cool thing about Fable 5 .2 is you can have it just like literally audit your entire business. So what's really cool is it can work 10 to 12 hours on its own until the job is done. So you can give it a job that would take a high -end consultant a week and just have it cook.
So you can say something like this. We're going to go ahead and try it out here. Audit my entire business, the website, pricing, onboarding, emails, and top five competitors.
Work until it's actually finished. Keep a running log. Give me a ranked list of the 10 changes most likely to make money with the evidence for each.
So we're going to go ahead and do that. I'm going to give it my business, latecheckout .agency, designagency. So it's going to go ahead and do that.
And while let's do that, let's go. Let's go and look at another making money prompt. So you can actually do a freelance job end -to -end with 5 .2.
So if you look at the blog post from Anthropic, they say in their official blog post that the real freelance score went from 21 % to 41%. So I think there's a huge opportunity to actually sell results as a productized service. What do I mean by that?
We can go ahead and give 5 .2. Let's go ahead and open a new chat here.
We can go and find a job posting. We can say, do the whole job as if you were a freelancer. Then tell me which parts you're confident in, which parts humans should check, and what you charge for it as a fixed price service.
I don't have a real job posting off the top of my head, so I'm actually going to go and have 5 .2 find it.
You go find something you think you can do that can make me money. You know, we can go ahead and do that.
What's really cool is there's so many jobs that are freelance jobs that if you. Use 5 .24 and you create a great loop for it. And you could sell it and not go hourly, right?
You can go and sell it as a job to be done. I think there's going to be thousands of people who come and go and do this. So I think this is a huge opportunity.
Number three. 100 niches at once. So one of the cool things about 5 .2, and I know a lot of you are going to be happy about this, is it's much better at running a lot of sub -agents.
So you can actually say something like this. Spin up a sub -agent for each one of these 100 niches. Each one finds the top three complaints people have, what they pay for today, and how hard it is to reach.
Give me one ranked table and the five I should build for. So I don't know if we'll be able to do this. It'll finish by the time this is done, but we're going to give it a try, that's for sure.
Underserved. We're going to go check in later about that so you can go see it. Number four, rebuild the ancient software.
This is a huge opportunity just in general. I've talked about it on the podcast before, but there's so much... tech debt, old software, and there's opportunities to go and rebuild that for people.
So you can go basically say something like this. Here's the spreadsheet my client has run their business on for 12 years. Figure out what it actually does, rebuild it as a simple web app, move the data over, and write a one -page guide for the staff.
So I anticipate a lot of people, we talked about pay per service, instead of hourly. In the past, People would just go and do this hourly for people, right?
$50 an hour, $100 an hour, whatever it is. There's just an opportunity now to use 5 .2 and go ahead and do that per output. And then the fifth one, deal checker for buying a boring business.
One of the big critiques of AI in general is it'll go and hallucinate, basically.
When you speak to people in legal, when you speak to people in finance, when you speak to people in different spaces where you can have hallucination, now it finally says, I don't know. So what's really cool about that is it's a human being. A human being would say, I don't know, to a question.
But up until this point, AI hasn't said, I don't know. So this is like a full -on new... era in the AI world, right?
The I don't know era. And this is really cool. I don't know.
I'm not going to say it's AGI, but if it was AGI, that does feel like kind of human -like, right? So you can say something like, here's the seller's P &L and listing. Find everything that doesn't add up.
Mark each number as verified, unverified, or suspicious. And write the 15. I said ask before making an offer.
So much opportunity to do stuff like this. This has been out of reach, finance, legal, stuff like that has been out of reach. But I think you're going to see a lot more professionals actually going and using 5 .2.
So that's exciting for them as well. Let's go ahead and check our prompts and see what we got so far.
When you actually go through, this is for LCA, our design agency and design engineering agency. It goes and does an incredible job at ranking all the different feedbacks. And I'm not going to go through exactly all of this, but it's just every time I've asked...
this prompt on on a bunch of different of the things that we've been incubating it has been just so uh to the point like literally all this is to the point so whatever it is you're working on this is a no -brainer do an audit and then you have this running log too let's go to the freelance job How do you automate a freelance job?
It's gone and picked a job, the equity analyst to produce report on TDMX and Upwork. $450 fixed price, intermediate levels posted two days ago. Now it's actually gone and done the work.
Look at this. This is insane. This is going and would someone pay?
It's still working on it, but would someone pay hundreds of dollars for this? Absolutely. And that's the crazy part.
There's so much opportunity to go and actually do things like research, things like I've talked about on this channel before, doing creative output using some of these tools. So a lot of stuff and opportunity here.
And still working on this one.
But yeah, the sub -agent thing is a really big deal. You're getting better output. It's going to be faster.
There's just multiple things that you can do at the same time. So that's really, really cool. Let's go to being productive.
Because I want to be productive. You want to be more productive. So what are some tips with Fable 5 .5?
The grill me. prompt interview me with 20 questions about how I make decisions in my business one at a time then turn my answers into a skill file you'll follow from now on this is a 5 .2 prompt that everyone literally everyone should be using.
You're just going to get more output, better output from 5 .2. It's a no -brainer. Number seven, run the apps that never had an API.
What's really cool about 5 .2 is it's really strong at operating a computer. You can say something like, open our old invoicing app, export last month's invoices, match them against the bank statement, and list anything unpaid, and then ask me before sending anything.
I'm happy to see that in 5 .2. Once you start playing with it, you're just going to see it's really good at operating a computer. It feels a lot better.
So that's a huge win. win here number eight red team my plan so you can say something like here's my plan for the next quarter argue against it like an investor who wants to pass then tell me the one thing that you that would change your mind one of the things i i did here is i literally gave it my vision deck for lca my design engineering agency and i was just like you know i had had some of my goals in there and i asked it what it would change and i was uh florida with just how good it was.
I had actually asked a really well -known sort of advisor to also give me feedback. And it was, in some ways, the 5 .2 feedback was even better than that. So kind of crazy.
If we move on to the video and content section, if you've been watching this podcast, Startup Ideas podcast, you know that I've been talking a lot about marketing engineering and just using AI agents to do marketing. 5 .2 is an insane deal around just like what you've been able to do. My friend Riley just posted just a 30 or 40 second, like basically one prompt, almost like.
documentary -style video that he was able to do. It's actually insane. You can do explainer videos.
I saw my friend Hunter created an explainer video, one prompt, and it's beautiful. Just absolutely stunning visuals. Where are the opportunities there?
Faceless content on explainer videos. Why aren't you creating vertical YouTube channels and Instagram? Own that distribution.
Distribution is everything. If you can start pumping out stuff using 5 .2 and it only costs you $1, $2, $3, $4, $5 a video, you can create a really great business there. I was thinking about that in the context of real estate.
on one hand, is such a great business, but is so capital intensive. This is so little capital intensive. And in some ways, social media is almost like real estate in that sense, right?
You're putting out these mini real estate videos and stuff like that, and it earns you AdSense, and it earns you followers that you can later sell. So there's a lot of opportunity here. I'm going to go through three.
Three quick prompts. You can have it be your short form editor. By the way, I'm going to include all these prompts in the description.
You can go grab it. But obviously like, comment, and subscribe for more. Here's a raw four minute talking head video.
Cut the silences and retakes. Find the strongest 45 seconds. Add captions and simple motion graphics and export it to video.
Vertical. And then show me three different hugs. So this is a no brainer thing.
Using it as your short form editor. I'm doing this.
The 10th prompt is the explainer videos for the niche. That's what I talked about with Hunter. You can say something like, make a 60 -second animated explainer on this topic for this niche, write the script, build the animation and code and render it, then make five variations with different...
first lines. And then lastly, one episode every format. So you just say, here's the transcript, make a PDF playbook, five tweets in my voice, a newsletter, a free tool someone could use in two minutes, and then flag any claim you couldn't verify.
So this is about doing long form content and then turning that into a tsunami of different formats. So I think there's a huge opportunity to do long form and then just sort of have it pump out all these different things because now 5 .2 is that good.
And last but not least, I've been excited about this for a while. I'm actually going to do an episode on one -person hardware companies, well, hardware companies in general, robotics and AI, but 5 .2 designed three working devices from a single prompt. I saw that Anthropic had said that, I think, in one of their blog posts.
you can just go and give it a prompt like this. Design a small device that does one job for one niche. Give me the parts list with the prices, the circuit design, the firmware, and an enclosure I can print.
And then you can say, tell me what it costs to make 100. And you can go and make a full -on Shopify with it, right? So maybe design a small device that maybe is kind of like BlackBerry.
the phone that doesn't have a million apps and is focused on people who aren't trying to doom scroll all the time so you have like an idea in the shower you're like oh my god wouldn't it be cool if there existed some phone that was more minimalist Actually, a friend of mine has a business like this called The Minimalist Phone.
But let's say you were trying to create something like this. You can go and just ask it to do this and it's going to design you the hardware. It's going to give you the part list.
It's going to give you the circuit design. It's going to give you the firmware. uh was something that would literally cost thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars you can now do with 5 .2 with a high degree certainty that this is actually not it's not going to hallucinate um and if you know of course there's going to be some hallucination Like in AI in general, you just have to assume there might be some hallucination or there might be some, you know, even when you work with people, like there's some hallucination.
So I wouldn't 100 % trust it. But from my experience working with 5 .2, I've just been really impressed with what I've been able to get out of it. So look, it's saying, I'll design this 4G and text handheld with a physical thumb keyboard and a monochrome screen, starting with live power pieces, the circuit firmware, and printable enclosure.
And it's, you know, I really like just like the UI of Cloud in general, honestly, with the side, like I think, you know, this artifacts over here, it's starting to get like really nice and cool and good. So overall, I'm excited about that. So here you can see they're naming the device PlaneOne, a calls and text handheld with a real keyboard.
PlaneOne is a pocket 4G phone that does six things, calls, text, context, notes, clocked, and alarm. It has a 45 -key thumb keyboard, a 2 .7 -inch black and white screen. You can read in sunlight and no browser, feed, or app store.
The screen is the anti -doomscroll feature. It's a sharp memory LCD. I mean, this is crazy.
I've talked about vibe manufacturing. I've talked about vibe manufacturing on the pod before. With 5 .2, we are truly here.
We are truly here. I think when Astra came out, it felt like, okay, this is where it's going and you're going to be able to do this. With 5 .2, it just takes it even to the next level.
So it's gone and created the actual device. And if you go through the document, the plane one document, it has basically everything. All the parts, the whole circuit design.
Look how crazy this is. The power rails, the pin map, the modem connections, the display connectors, the keyboard matrix. If you wanted to have it design an operating system based on...
an operating system based on Android, that would be, I think, a really cool idea. It could do that. It's showing you what it could look like.
This is bonkers. This is absolutely bonkers. If you don't look at this and it doesn't get your mind going 100 miles a minute, I don't know, because this is just...
just absolutely incredible vibe manufacturing is here. And I think one of the coolest parts about 5 .2 in general is it's probably the most thoughtful model that exists today. And that means you're going to get better output.
It means it's going to control tools, tools like Blender, DaVinci, whatever tools you're using or giving it, it's going to just be better at using those tools. So we now have the most thoughtful model on the planet. What are you going to do with it?
These are just a few of my examples, and there's hundreds more, thousands more. We're going to be discovering these use cases. Please let me know in the comment section how you're using it, what you're seeing work.
This has been a pleasure. riffing with you, going through some of my ideas. Hope it's been helpful.
Hope it's gotten that creative juices flowing. I am rooting for you to go and build whatever your heart desires. This is an incredible time to be building, which fires me up.
I love a model release day. I know you do too. I'll see you next time and have a creative day.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Greg Isenberg promises twelve prompts that make money, save time and design hardware, then runs several live against his own design agency and an Upwork job.
Frameworks
Named ideas worth stealing.
01:00list
Four areas, twelve prompts
Making money (prompts 1-5)
Productivity (prompts 6-8)
Video and content (prompts 9-11)
Hardware (prompt 12)
The episode groups its twelve prompts into four jobs the model can do.
Steal fororganizing a personal prompt library
CTA Breakdown
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
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“Please let me know in the comment section how you're using it.”
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