# Build an AI-First Business by Using the Models Yourself by Emad Mostaque > "If you’re an accountant and you want to build an AI-first accounting practice, you can literally talk to Claude and do that right now. You can build this thing out and think: where can I have AI rather than a human? You can only [build an AI-first organization] by understanding and using [AI]. We could have a discussion about which mesh technologies are good versus the others because you’ve actually gone and tried them, and you know what’s strong [and] what’s weak. We know that Claude is good at certain things and Astra is good at other things because we’ve pushed them. But if you’re not in it and using it, you don’t know." > **— Emad Mostaque**, *Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording or publication:** [Impact Theory at 40:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsdcF7EEvhM&t=2422s) — The poster preserves the complete source object used in the research dossier; square brackets or ellipses, when present, are visible editorial repairs inherited from the reconciled source record. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit|AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit]] — preserves transcript order, speaker attribution, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument from which this Reminder was promoted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[wired/Wired About the Age of Agentic Empowerment|Wired About the Age of Agentic Empowerment]] - **Article:** [[wired/Wired About Personal Agents Named M|Wired About Personal Agents Named M]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Emad Mostaque|Emad Mostaque]] - [[wiki/AI Entrepreneurship|AI Entrepreneurship]] - [[wiki/Agentic Entrepreneurship|Agentic Entrepreneurship]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "If you’re an accountant and you want to build an AI-first accounting practice, you can literally talk to Claude and do that right now. You can build this thing out and think: where can I have AI rather than a human? You can only [build an AI-first organization] by understanding and using [AI]. We could have a discussion about which mesh technologies are good versus the others because you’ve actually gone and tried them, and you know what’s strong [and] what’s weak. We know that Claude is good at certain things and Astra is good at other things because we’ve pushed them. But if you’re not in it and using it, you don’t know." — Emad Mostaque, Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-emad-mostaque-build-ai-first-business-using-models-yourself ```