Gail Starr Digital

23/12/2025

🤩Sometimes all it takes is hearing what someone else has built for your brain to go, “Oh… I didn’t even think of that.

One of the things I really love about being in this community is seeing the action people are taking!

I was with a group of business owners recently and we were talking about the custom GPTs they’ve built and I was blown away.

What struck me most wasn’t just that they were building GPTs, but how intentional each one was.

Every single person was building for a real need, either in their own business or for their clients, and no two looked the same.

It made me realize again that often the thing that limits most people with AI isn’t just the technology.

It’s our imagination of what AI can actually do.

Once you start seeing beyond “content ideas” or “write me a post,” the possibilities are literally endless.

Some creators are building GPTs that support clients inside their programs, helping them work through a specific part of a framework so they don’t get stuck between calls.

Others are creating internal GPTs that help them clarify offers, plan projects, or finally tackle tasks they’ve been avoiding because it all felt too big or overwhelming to start.

And as online course creators this can get really useful.

Imagine creating a concierge-style GPT that helps people find the exact right training they need instead of scrolling through a portal and trying to guess.


These GPTs can also create personalized learning paths based on where someone is or what they’re focused on right now.

You can have focused assistants that support one specific part of your program, so people can keep moving without having to wait for you.

I'm in BBD with James Wedmore and this is something he has integrated into his learning portal really well.

He has custom bots that help with specific areas, like offer creation or sales page copy, things that used to stop people in their tracks because it seemed so hard.

And I’ve seen so many positive responses from people who were finally able to get their offers out or finish their sales pages because of this kind of support.

Not because they handed everything over to the GPTs, but rather because it removed the friction that was stopping them from starting.

That’s why sharing what you’re building is so helpful.

Sometimes hearing what someone else has created is all it takes to spark an idea you hadn’t considered yet.

So I’m curious. What have you built so far, or what are you using custom GPTs for right now?

Even if it feels simple to you, it might be exactly what someone else needs to hear today.

18/12/2025

If I build a Custom GPT for my students… will they still need me?

During our Build Your Own Custom GPT Challenge Q&A recently, we were talking about creating a “mini you” for a course or membership.

A custom GPT trained as your mini you that your students could access between calls.

Something that helps them keep moving instead of waiting.

And then the question came up.

“If I’m creating this custom GPT…are they still going to need me?”

And this is such a fair question.

So here’s my take on this...

“A GPT can guide someone., but it can’t read the room.”

When people get better results faster, they don’t stop needing support.

✔️ They trust the source more.
✔️ A good GPT removes friction.
✔️ It helps someone get unstuck late at night.
✔️ It helps them clarify their thinking before they show up.
✔️ It helps them take action instead of sitting in indecision.

And that momentum changes everything.

👉Because momentum leads to better questions.
👉Better questions lead to deeper conversations.
👉And deeper conversations lead right back to you.

Not for more information, but for your perspective, your experience and your expertise

A GPT can follow your framework.

It can mirror how you guide someone step by step.

It can hold space for the process you’ve already designed.

But it can’t read the room.

It can’t hear the hesitation behind a question.

It can’t sense when the real issue isn’t the thing being asked.

That’s still your job.

If anything, a well-built GPT changes how people need you, not whether they need you.

They arrive with more clarity, they are more prepared and they understand where they are getting stuck!

But I'm curious, has this thought ever crossed your mind?

Its definitely crossed mine...

15/12/2025

I’ve been loving using Nano Banana lately.

It’s an incredibly powerful tool, and I’ve seen people doing all sorts of impressive, creative things with it.

But I’m also very aware of how easy it is to disappear down rabbit holes, so I’ve been very intentional about how I use it.

Instead of trying to do all the things, I’ve been using it in a very practical way… for something that usually takes me way longer than it should.

Creating thumbnails and course images.

I’m not naturally creative, and sitting for ages trying to design thumbnails or visuals can be a real time drain for me.

With Nano Banana, I can simply describe what I want and let it do the creating, which has saved me so much time while building out my new membership, AI Business Builders.

One small trick that’s made a big difference is uploading my style guide and giving it my brand colors with the hex codes.

Nano Banana then pulls those colors through automatically, so everything stays consistent without me fiddling around.

This is exactly the kind of practical, time-saving way I like to use AI, and it’s the type of thing we’ll be sharing and working through inside AI Business Builders.

Not more tools for the sake of it, but real ways to use them in your business.

It’s also not too late to join AI Business Builders

We’re starting on Wednesday with our kick-off call, link in the first comment

This is the welcome image for the new community...what do you think?

11/12/2025

My Black Friday offer completely missed Black Friday 🤣

Life just happened and I went with it, because I’m always talking about building a business around your life and not the other way around, so I decided to practice what I preach.

So I kept my BF offer open, and people have been joining slowly in their own time without any of the pressure tactics or the “never to be offered again at this price” noise that comes with BF.

I want you to build your online business on your terms, not because a countdown timer is telling you to hurry up.

So I’m sharing the offer here as well for those of you who aren’t on my mailing list or may have missed it the first time.

AI Business Builders is for online business owners who want to use AI in a way that helps them build a sustainable, profitable business.

This isn’t just information, it's information with intention!

It’s practical guidance and real-world use cases that help you grow your online business faster.

Each month you get focused training that shows you how to use AI in real situations inside your business.

Things like planning, creating content, organizing your ideas, or pulling all the pieces of a project together.

We'll look at a variety of AI platforms and identify the ones that actually help you rather than take you down a rabbit hole.

You also get monthly tools (like Custom GPTs, Gems, and Micro Apps) and custom AI workflows you can use straight away, plus a place to ask questions when you need help.

This membership is about practical progress… progress in building your business, progress in generating income, and progress in freeing up your time because AI has become a useful ally instead of another time suck.

If you’re ready to make 2026 your year of momentum, then AI Business Builders is here to support you.

Learn more here →

Monthly AI training for online business owners. Learn which tools work, get ready-to-use resources, and grow your business without the overwhelm.

08/12/2025

🤯AI isn’t just for online businesses...here’s how I used it for high-value, in-person consulting.

I wanted to share a workflow that absolutely saved me this week.

Last week I spent 2 days working face to face with a large company

It was the first time since moving into the AI space that it wasn't a virtual meeting...which meant no notetaker quietly running in the background, no instant transcripts and no easy way to capture everything we covered.

🤔 Six one hour meetings
🤔 Different teams to learn about

There was a massive amount of information.

And I didn’t want to miss a thing.

So I used a hack that Betsy Sabatini showed me

Zoom’s built-in voice recorder.

I recorded every session plus my training and demo at the end - approx. 10 hours in total

Then I took the transcripts directly from Zoom and added them to a Notebook LM (both the audio and written transcript)

I had already created the notebook and added all our interactions from the past 4 months

• every previous virtual meeting
• every email thread
• every proposal
• every discussion
• and now, all the transcripts from the in-person sessions

Part of the deliverables was a comprehensive report and my recommendations for next steps.

Normally that would mean trying to pull together lots of hand written notes, trying to remember what was said where, and then piecing everything together manually.

Instead, I asked NotebookLM to:

Give me an overview of the two days
Pull out common patterns across all divisions
Pull out specific topics we spoke about
Generate a list of the most agreed upon use cases
Check for accuracy across all my assumptions and recommendations

And together, we built a 20-page report that captured every single thing we discussed.

There’s no way I could have done this as accurately or as fast before AI.

Not even close.

As more people start adding in-person elements back into their businesses, this workflow is a real gamechanger

You do get specific wearable AI devices like Plaude but honestly the Zoom recorder on my phone worked so well at this stage I don't think I need to change.

So if you’re running workshops, client sessions, team days, or strategy intensives… this might become your new favorite system,

I'd love to know are you planning on any in person events in 2026 and if you will you be recording them, I know I will for all my in person events going forward.

05/12/2025

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20/11/2025

Am I the last one to discover Gmail’s Gemini can pull templates straight from Drive?!” 😂

So… I’ve just moved over to Gmail after getting my new custom domain on Google Workspace, and I’ve been poking around the ai functionality

And I have to say… I might be late to the party, but this little AI discovery is gold.

When you open an email and hit the Gemini sparkle in the top right, you can actually pull files straight from your Google Drive into the email you’re writing.

So I thought of some use cases to test it

I created a few email templates in Drive — the kind of emails you'd send all the time

Opened a new email, clicked the sparkle, put in the @ sign which pulled in the template, added the necessary details… and Gemini wrote the entire email for me, the whole process took less than three minutes.

Quick tip: make sure you name your templates properly so Gemini can find them.

I started all mine with “Email Template – …” because not every file shows up right away in the menu.

A good naming system makes the search so much easier.

I see there are a lot more features to explore so I'll be doing that as I use the new domain.

✨I'd love to know if you're a gmail user are you using that ask Gemini sparkle button and if you are what's your favorite feature?

17/11/2025

‼️I'm running a little AI experiment and need your help!

What are you using Custom GPTs for in your business?

If you drop your answer below I'll share the results once we have some information...

And its likely not what you think 🤣⬇️

04/11/2025

25+ Custom GPTs. 1 Spellbook. Endless business magic. 🪄

You all know how obsessed I am with custom GPTs — especially the way you can stack them to make your business flow smoother, faster, and smarter. 🪄

Well… there’s something pretty amazing happening this week 👇
It’s called The GPT Spellbook Bundle — an epic collection of 25+ curated GPTs built by real business owners using them in their own businesses.

🗓️ Available October 31–November 6, 2025
💰 FREE (with an optional upgrade if you want the bonus magic)
🎯 Hosted by Alisa Kay, storytelling strategist & AI + systems coach
💙 Plus — 10% of upsell proceeds support Ukrainian children
And my Magic Course Creator GPT is in the bundle too!

If you’ve ever had a course idea stuck in your head and wished someone could help you pull it all together… that’s exactly what it does.

But honestly, the real power is in exploring all 25 GPTs and seeing how they can stack together to cover every phase of your business — from ideas to systems to sales.

✨ Grab your free access in the first comment below

You’ll walk away with tools that’ll have you saying, “Wait… I can use GPTs for THAT too?!” 😂

30/10/2025

🤯I did a thing today...

Created my very first app right inside of Chatgpt

This app was just a test app, it doesn't actually do anything yet...

I think its a big deal but to be honest I still am having a hard time wrapping my head around the potential for these apps.

I don't hear many people talking about it but I feel like we are right at the beginning of the GPT App store.

Like the Apple App store but right at the beginning...

I'd love to hear your thoughts, have you heard of apps inside ChatGPT other than the ones you can see in your connectors?

I think we may be onto something huge?

28/10/2025

This one GPT workflow made people go: ‘Wait… I can actually do that?!

Yesterday I shared a post that started with:

“Think Custom GPTs are just for writing content? Wait until you see what happens when they run your client process.”

And wow, it really resonated with people.

Because it showed a real business use case

Not theory, not some irrelevant example, but an actual workflow people could see themselves using in their own business.

The idea was simple:
👉 After a client discovery call, drop the transcript into your Call Analyzer GPT.
👉 It pulls out the goals, pain points, priorities, and tone.
👉 Then your Proposal GPT drafts a personalized strategy with deliverables, timelines and pricing that fit perfectly.
👉 Finally, your Email GPT writes the follow-up message — warm, clear, and professional.

All of that happening in a few minutes rather than spending hours

And that’s the real impact of Custom GPTs.

They take what you already do and turn it into something smoother, faster, and easier to repeat.

That’s exactly what we’ll be doing together inside the Build Your Own Custom GPTs Challenge (Nov 4–6 @ 11 AM EST) — building GPTs that handle real parts of your business, not just churn out content.

🧠 Day 1 — Your Organizational GPT
Your business HQ in GPT form.
It learns your offers, your audience, your tone, your key messages, so you don’t have to re-explain them every time you use AI.
It helps you write content, create outlines, and keep everything consistent across your business.
Impact: saves hours every week and makes your brand voice effortless to maintain.

⚙️ Day 2 — Your Framework GPT
We’ll take your teaching or coaching process and turn it into an interactive tool your clients or students can use 24/7.
It asks questions, gives answers, and walks them step-by-step through your process.
Impact: helps your clients get results faster, reduces your support time, and creates a tool that can run without you.

🚀 Day 3 — Your Public Market GPT
This is where we build a GPT that solves a real, everyday problem, something you can share publicly or even sell.

Think: a Social Media Calendar Generator, Launch Planner, or Transcript Repurposer — practical tools that people will actually use.

Impact: adds a new lead magnet or revenue stream to your business instantly.

By the end of the 3 days, you’ll have:

✅ 3 working GPTs
✅ All the templates and training data
✅ A repeatable process you can use again and again

If you’ve ever looked at an example like that “call → proposal → email” flow and thought,
“I could totally apply that to my own business,”

this challenge is where you’ll learn exactly how to do it.

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