Jackson Yew

Co-founder & COO, Funnel Duo Media

Jackson Yew

One half of Gen AI. Operator behind AtheonX and The Brand Funnels. Past clients include Frank Kern, Mike Dillard, Ryan Deiss, and Donnie French. Holds the Guinness World Record (2025) and ASEAN Record (2025) alongside his brother Reeve.

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The full story — operator background, work, and how Jackson got here.

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AI Career & Income·June 10, 2026

How to Build a Faceless YouTube Channel With AI in 30 Days

A structured 30-day playbook for launching a faceless YouTube channel using AI tools for scripting, voiceover, and editing, without showing your face.

AI Trends·June 8, 2026

Apple Siri AI: What the WWDC 2026 Rebuild Actually Changes

Apple rebuilt Siri from scratch at WWDC 2026 with Gemini-powered reasoning, visual intelligence, and cross-app context. Here is what changed.

AI How-To·June 7, 2026

Vibe Coding vs Prompt Engineering vs Context Engineering

Three terms everyone in AI circles uses but few define clearly. Here is what vibe coding, prompt engineering, and context engineering actually mean.

AI Trends·June 3, 2026

State of LLMs June 2026: What Actually Changed

Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.5, agent platforms, pricing collapse. A signal-filtered snapshot of where the LLM market stands in June 2026.

AI How-To·June 3, 2026

Build an AI Customer Support Workflow with n8n and OpenAI

A practical 4-day walkthrough for automating ticket routing, CRM updates, and repetitive replies using n8n workflows and the OpenAI API.

AI Tools & Reviews·June 2, 2026

21 Best Generative AI Tools in 2026 Ranked by Use Case

The 21 top generative AI tools for 2026, ranked by actual use case fit across writing, image, video, code, and productivity. No hype, just signal.

AI Tools & Reviews·May 26, 2026

Codex vs Claude Code: Which AI Coding Tool Wins in 2026

Claude Code leads on adoption and developer love, but OpenAI Codex is closing fast. Here is how the two tools compare across real coding workflows.

AI Tools & Reviews·May 23, 2026

Runway Gen-4.5 Review: Is AI Video Generation Production Ready?

We tested Runway's Gen-4.5 model under real production constraints. Here's what works, what breaks, and whether the pricing justifies the output quality in 2026.

AI How-To·May 20, 2026

How to Build SEO Reports with Claude Code and Search Console

Connect Google Search Console data to Claude Code, generate custom visualizations, and create flexible SEO reporting workflows for stakeholder meetings.

AI Trends·May 20, 2026

Google I/O 2026 AI Announcements: What Builders Need to Know

Google I/O 2026 introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Omni, Antigravity 2.0, and Gemini Spark. Here is what each one means for builders and daily AI users.

AI for Work·May 20, 2026

How to Automate Content Marketing with AI Agents

AI agents now handle SEO drafts, content refreshes, and performance reporting end to end. Here's how content teams are using them to reclaim hours every week.

AI Trends·May 19, 2026

Claude Overtakes ChatGPT in Business Adoption for the First Time

Anthropic's Claude passed ChatGPT in U.S. business adoption in April 2026, reaching 34.4% of companies. Here is what shifted, why it matters, and what comes next.

AI How-To·May 19, 2026

How Anthropic Engineers Use HTML Instead of Markdown in Claude Code

An Anthropic engineer argues only 1% of AI-generated tokens become production code. The rest should be rich HTML plans, dashboards, and throwaway micro-apps.

AI How-To·May 19, 2026

Claude Code HTML Workflows That Replace Markdown

Anthropic engineer Thariq Shihipar shows three HTML workflows for Claude Code: interactive brainstorming, disposable micro-apps, and living design systems.

AI How-To·May 18, 2026

How RAG Works: Retrieval Augmented Generation Explained

RAG connects language models to external knowledge so answers stay current and grounded. Learn how retrieval augmented generation works, when to use it, and how to build it.

AI How-To·May 18, 2026

How to Reduce AI Coding Assistant Hallucinations with Context Files

Practical context management strategies that stop AI coding tools from inventing functions, duplicating features, and burning through your token budget on growing codebases.

AI Tools & Reviews·May 17, 2026

Best AI App Builders 2026: Speed, Cost, and Rework Compared

We ranked the top AI app builders of 2026 by real delivery speed, total build cost, and rework rate. Here is what actually ships faster and cheaper.

AI How-To·May 17, 2026

How to Use OpenAI Codex on Your Phone

OpenAI Codex now runs inside ChatGPT on iOS and Android. Here is a practical playbook for steering code tasks from your phone without a laptop.

AI Trends·May 17, 2026

Open Model Releases May 2026: Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6

A wave of frontier open models landed in weeks. Here is what Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, MiMo 2.5, and GLM-5.1 mean for builders picking their next base model.

AI How-To·May 14, 2026

How to Build AI Automation Workflows with n8n

Learn how to connect AI models like GPT and Claude to 400+ apps using n8n's visual workflow builder. Practical setups for real business automation.

AI for Productivity·May 14, 2026

How One ADHD Founder Uses Claude for Daily Follow Ups

A solo security consultant with ADHD stopped losing leads and forgetting decisions after offloading daily follow-up triage to Claude. Here is the system.

AI for Work·May 13, 2026

ChatGPT Prompts for Executive Assistants: 35 Ready to Use

35 tested ChatGPT prompts that help executive assistants draft exec comms, manage calendars, prep board decks, and handle high-stakes messaging faster.

AI for Work·May 13, 2026

Claude for Small Business: All 15 Workflows Explained

Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business with 15 ready-made workflows, free training tours, and integrations with QuickBooks, PayPal, and HubSpot.

AI for Productivity·May 13, 2026

How to Reduce AI API Costs Without Changing Your Code

Five practical strategies to cut AI API spending by half or more, from model routing and caching to prompt compression, without rewriting application logic.

AI for Work·May 13, 2026

Notion Turned Its Workspace Into a Hub for AI Agents

Notion launched a full developer platform for AI agents. Here is what Workers, External Agents, and the new CLI mean for teams running real workflows.

AI Career & Income·May 12, 2026

AI Engineer Skills Companies Want in 2026: What 3,449 Postings Reveal

An analysis of 3,449 job postings shows the AI engineer role has crystallized around the LLM stack. Here are the skills that actually get hired.

AI for Productivity·May 12, 2026

How to Build an Automated AI Morning Briefing

Stop burning 45 minutes on news tabs every morning. Build an AI agent that pulls, filters, and delivers your daily briefing on autopilot.

AI for Productivity·May 12, 2026

How to Repurpose Content With AI: One Idea, 30 Posts

Learn a repeatable system for turning one strong idea into 30 pieces of content using AI tools. Stop creating from scratch every time you publish.

AI Tools & Reviews·May 12, 2026

Production Voice AI Stack Benchmarks: What Holds Up in 2026

A practical May 2026 breakdown of STT, TTS, and voice agent platforms tested under real load, with latency numbers, cost per minute, and orchestration trade-offs.

AI How-To·May 12, 2026

Model Context Protocol: How MCP Connects AI to Your Tools

Model Context Protocol is the open standard letting AI models call tools, query databases, and read files without writing custom glue code per integration.

AI Tools & Reviews·May 11, 2026

8 Best AI Models in 2026: Unified API Comparison

We ran GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, DeepSeek V4 Pro and five rivals through one API gateway. Here is what benchmarks and real tasks actually show.

AI Tools & Reviews·May 11, 2026

Cursor vs GitHub Copilot: Which AI Coding Tool Wins in 2026

GitHub Copilot has 20 million users. Cursor hit two billion in ARR in under two years. Here is how to pick the right AI coding tool for your workflow.

AI Trends·May 11, 2026

Claude Opus 4.7 Features, Benchmarks and Pricing Explained

Claude Opus 4.7 ships 3.75MP vision, a new xhigh effort level, task budgets for agentic loops, and a 1M-token context window at $5/$25 per million tokens.

AI Tools & Reviews·May 9, 2026

Grok Imagine 2.0 Review: AI Video Features, Pricing and Rivals

Grok Imagine 2.0 delivers identity-preserving AI video from under $10/month. Here is how its features and price stack up against Sora, Runway, and Kling.

AI Career & Income·May 9, 2026

How to Build a Solo Agency AI Stack for Multiple Clients

One operator, several retainer clients, zero extra hires. Here is how building an AI operating layer per client is making that possible in 2026.

AI for Productivity·May 9, 2026

5 Claude Automation Workflows That Survived Six Months

Most AI workflow experiments die in a week. Here are five Claude automations one builder ran every week for six months, and the pattern that made them last.

AI Trends·May 8, 2026

Anthropic SpaceX Compute Deal: 300MW, 220K GPUs, Five Billion a Year

Anthropic is tapping SpaceX's 220,000-GPU Colossus I at 300MW for roughly five billion dollars a year. Here is what the deal signals for AI compute.

AI for Beginners·May 8, 2026

AI Terms for Beginners: The Essential Glossary

Tokens, inference, quantization: the AI terms that trip up beginners are simpler than they sound. Here is your practical starting glossary, decoded.

AI for Beginners·May 8, 2026

How to Learn Claude AI from Scratch in 2026

Most people use Claude like a search bar. This guide shows beginners how to get genuinely good at it, step by step, with no prior AI background needed.

AI How-To·May 8, 2026

How to Build a Claude Projects Knowledge Base

Claude Projects stores files, notes, and instructions that persist across every chat. Here is how to turn that persistence into a working knowledge base.

AI Tools & Reviews·May 7, 2026

5 Best ChatGPT Alternatives in 2026 That Actually Work

ChatGPT still leads, but its market share dropped 19 points in a year. Here are five alternatives worth switching to, matched by use case.

AI for Productivity·May 6, 2026

8 Claude Code Workflows Developers Run Daily (and What Each Replaced)

Six months of daily Claude Code use distilled into 8 workflows, what each one replaced, and why the compound effect changes how developers work.

AI How-To·May 5, 2026

5 Things Every AI Builder Should Ship Before 2026 Ends

A prioritized checklist of what separates AI builders who ship from those who stall. Five concrete artifacts to get out the door before December 2026.

AI How-To·May 5, 2026

How to Keep an AI Agent Reliable When Its Tool Calls Fail

A practical guide for AI builders on designing fault-tolerant tool-calling agents. Retry strategies, fallback chains, error budgets, and observability that keep agents productive.

AI Tools & Reviews·May 5, 2026

Why Most Agent Frameworks Fail in Production (And How to Pick One)

A breakdown of why agent frameworks that demo well collapse under real workloads, with a decision framework for choosing production-grade agent infrastructure in 2026.

AI Operators·April 22, 2026

The translator layer just disappeared

For 20 years, every CEO with a software idea needed two things: the idea, and a translator — a dev team, an agency, a PM. That middle layer is gone. Here's what that changes.

Conversion Design·April 15, 2026

Brand without conversion is an expensive hobby

Most businesses I work with have it backwards. They spend a year building a 'brand' that converts nothing. Here's what I've learned running 6-figure/month ad spend.

AI for Work·March 10, 2026

AI for marketers: 12 workflows that replaced a small SDR team (2026)

Twelve concrete AI workflows we run inside our agency, with the tool stack, prompt pattern, and time saved per workflow. No fluff, just the moves that compounded in 2026.