Leverage vs Skills: Where Founders Shold Be Doubling Down

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Stop Building Skills. Start Building Leverage.

For years, the advice was simple:

Learn more.

Get better.

Stack skills.

And that worked when skills were scarce.

But we’re entering a different era.

Today, almost any technical skill can be augmented, accelerated, or outright replaced by AI. Coding. Design. Copywriting. Analysis. Research. Even strategy.

That doesn’t mean skills don’t matter.

It means skills alone aren’t a moat anymore.

What compounds now isn’t just what you can do.

It’s what you control.

The founders who win in 2026 and beyond won’t just be highly skilled.

They’ll be highly leveraged.

Leverage looks like:

• An audience that trusts you

• A brand people recognize

• Systems that scale without you

• Distribution you own

Skills are inputs.

Leverage is the multiplier.

If AI can help 1,000 people write code, the advantage doesn’t go to the person who codes slightly better.

It goes to the person who has:

• The audience to launch to

• The credibility to attract buyers

• The systems to distribute at scale

So here’s the better question for founders right now:

Are you investing your time in becoming marginally better at execution…

Or are you building assets that work for you?

Because in this new landscape, the real edge is owning more leverage.

“This Used to Take Me 5 Hours…”

Everyone is trying to buy back time.

Founders are constantly asking:

• How do I move faster?

• How do I get more done?

• How do I scale without burning out?

One of the simplest content ideas you can post this week is this:

“This used to take me 5 hours. Now it takes 30 minutes.”

Then explain what changed.

Maybe it’s:

• Drafting proposals

• Planning weekly content

• Reviewing contracts

• Analyzing campaign performance

• Onboarding new clients

Share what AI, automation, or systems now handle for you.

But here’s the important part:

Don’t just talk about the time saved.

Talk about what you’re doing with that time now.

Are you spending more time thinking strategically?

Building relationships?

Refining your offer?

Creating better work?

Time saved is only valuable if it’s reinvested into leverage.

This kind of post works because it’s practical and real. It shows that you’re adapting. It shows that you’re building smarter systems. And it positions you as someone thinking about scale, not just survival.

Efficiency is interesting.

Leverage is compelling.

Share the shift.

Are You The Bottleneck?

If growth feels slower than it should, there’s a hard truth worth considering:

The bottleneck might not be these different factors you’re thinking of…

It might be you.

Not because you’re incapable, but because everything still runs through you.

Maybe you’re approving every decision, reviewing every detail, and answering every message.

That works in the early days but it doesn’t scale very well.

Growth requires designing yourself out of low-leverage work.

Automate what’s repeatable.

Delegate what others can handle.

Keep your time for vision, positioning, and the decisions only you can make.

If everything needs your input, your company isn’t stuck.

It’s waiting on you to remove yourself from certain areas.

AI Becoming Your Workflow Partner

Recent momentum around AI agents, including OpenAI’s hiring of the creator of the popular open-source agent platform OpenClaw, shows the industry is moving forcefully toward a future where AI doesn’t just respond, it executes on your behalf.

These intelligent agents can go well beyond conversation:

• Access calendars, email, and scheduling

• Orchestrate multi-step business tasks

• Trigger workflows and integrate with tools you already use

• Complete complex assignments without ongoing hand-holding

This shift, from assistants that chat to agents that work, is accelerating how businesses automate real workflows. One editor noted that agent technology can perform tasks like booking travel, handling messages, and managing calendars across apps such as WhatsApp and Discord. 

For founders and founders in the Making, the implication is clear:

Start thinking in systems, not just content.

AI doesn’t replace creativity or judgment. But it will replace busywork.

If you treat AI like a fancy search tool, you’ll get marginal gains.

If you fold AI agents into your processes, offloading repetitive tasks and streamlining workflows, you build leverage.

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