Zhang Pinpin · Hands-On AI Coach
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Bosses who use AI don't lug a laptop around all day

Long-Form Video · EP0076 August 1, 2026 01:00
What this episode covers

This afternoon I'm meeting a few founders of AI companies, plus a CEO coach. It's a get-together, and we've got topics to discuss.

I did the prep ahead of time: I ran a multi-agent concurrent deep-research pass with Claude Code, split my own views and thinking into several dimensions, had it go collect the information for each one, added a few projects I've been working on lately, and folded all of it into a single web page.

The short version

Bosses who use AI—none of them lug a laptop around all day.

That sounds like a cheap line, but it’s a real judgment call. If an AI workflow only runs at a desk, on one laptop, then for someone who spends the day out meeting people, it’s worth half of what it looks like.

Homework before a meeting

This afternoon I’m meeting a few founders of AI companies and a CEO coach. It’s a get-together, and we’ll have a discussion.

I did my homework in advance. I used Claude Code to run a multi-agent concurrent deep-research pass:

  • I took my own views and thinking and split them into several dimensions
  • I had it go collect more information back for each dimension
  • Then I added the projects I’ve been working on lately that I might want to raise with them

All of it went into a single web page. Which makes this afternoon’s discussion topics very easy to work with.

The part worth pulling out is that last step—folding it into one page. Not a scattered pile of chat logs, not a handful of fragments you still have to assemble yourself, but one self-contained HTML file: styles inlined, no external requests, opens fine with no network. You can double-click it, or send it straight to someone else, and what they see is exactly what I see.

The sentence on the way out

The material was ready. What was left was delivery.

I didn’t open a laptop. I didn’t hunt for a file. I didn’t attach anything. I just said this into my phone:

Send this web page to Mr. Zhou for me. I’m about to head out, the address for 2 PM this afternoon, notify me on WeChat.

That one sentence put the page in front of him over WeChat—the channel everyone is already using anyway.

And it isn’t only on a phone

The same thing runs directly on a tablet, or on a tri-fold phone, and the experience is better there—a really big screen.

Holding it on the sofa, or on a train or a plane while commuting, it’s very convenient.

That’s what not carrying a laptop actually means: the workflow itself isn’t tied to any one device. Wherever you are, it’s there.

One disclosure

Today’s episode is, honestly, just showing off a bit.

Right now this is a product custom-built for my own clients, and it is not open to the public. Saying that up front so nobody watches this and goes looking for a sign-up link.

The method, though, is general, and has nothing to do with whether you have my particular setup: split your own views into dimensions before the meeting, send AI off to fill in each one in parallel, then converge the results into something you can send as-is. Those three steps work with any tool on your desk today that can run multi-round research. What separates people was never the tool. It’s whether you’ve turned preparation into a process that can run anywhere.

Bosses who use AI—none of them lug a laptop around all day.