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Felix Tay · Founder, NLC ·

Ideas are cheap. Until you try to make one.

Suddenly, you're hiring a whole bloody team.

A simple idea can come with a ridiculous shopping list.

You want a useful tool on your website.

Something that helps a visitor choose the right service before they contact you.

Nothing particularly outrageous.

But somebody has to work out what questions it asks.

Somebody has to design the screens.

Somebody has to build it.

Somebody has to write the explanations so a normal person understands what to do.

Then you have to get all of those parts to agree with each other.

Suddenly, your useful little idea has become a project you need to manage.

You could hire people.

You could learn the different jobs yourself.

Or you could leave it on the list until you have more time.

I think that last option is probably responsible for a lot of things that never get made.

Not because they were bad ideas.

Because the owner already had enough work without adding a production department to the business.

This is one reason I find working with agents so interesting.

The work still needs doing.

Design doesn't stop mattering because AI is involved.

Neither does checking whether the thing works.

But you don't have to personally become every specialist the idea requires.

With NLC, I can work with agents on the different parts of a project.

I can look at what they produce, decide whether it's right and have it improved.

My job becomes deciding what belongs in the business, rather than acquiring every skill needed to make it.

That changes which ideas are worth considering.

An idea you dismissed because you couldn't justify assembling a team might deserve another look.

Especially if you already have most of the substance: the questions customers ask, the advice you give or the way you work something out for them.

You aren't starting from nothing.

You're finding a different way to put what you already know to work.

You also don't need to build a whole new business around it.

It can be one useful addition to the business you already have.

NLC is the AI agent system I use in my own company.

You use it through an app in your browser, and my team prepares it for you.

What if the idea you've parked didn't need four hires before you could start?

For $100, you get NLC set up for you, 30 days to use it and two hours of implementation with me.

Bring the idea.

We choose a useful first piece and work on it directly, with the agents doing the making.

Your own ChatGPT or Claude subscription is separate.

Email IDEA to info@felixtay.com and I'll send you the full details of how we can get started, including what it costs if you continue.

You don't have to decide to buy.

Just find out what it would take to get that idea off the someday list.

FELIX

P.S. You can tell me what the idea is when you email.

I'm interested in what you want to make, not whether you know which specialists it needs.