More people don't fix broken systems. They add oxygen to the fire.
Emma Rainville (the Wizard of Ops) and Mitch Barham (the Wizard of Ads) take apart the oldest myth in business — that every problem gets solved by hiring someone — and show what replaces it.
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Three live sessions with Emma and Mitch. You leave with two AI employees deployed inside your business: an Ops Intelligence Analyst and a Media Intelligence Analyst — roles that replace $170K–$240K a year in payroll, running on the AI subscription you already pay for.
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Mitch has 38 agentic workflows running inside his agency — media buyers, creative strategists, CSM agents — and plans to grow 10 to 15 fold this year without adding a single person.
Emma walks through her replacement for the old hiring process: an agent that diagnoses the problem, writes the procedure, and trains the agent that owns it.
Plus the Facebook lesson Mitch learned the expensive way, and why both of them think the window is much shorter than 18 months.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Evolve or die
1:15 – The hiring myth: more people, more oxygen on the fire
3:01 – Mitch's 38 agentic workflows
6:56 – SWOT analysis on a client and their competitors, automatically
8:38 – Killing the four-hour weekly report
9:52 – When AI spots the pattern before you do
12:15 – The old way of solving a recurring problem
13:51 – Subscribe + comment break
15:13 – Agent 1 is your thinker: the new hiring process
16:24 – The 24-month prediction
17:08 – What Harvard Business Review says is coming
19:08 – "I refused to advertise on Facebook" — a $1M lesson
20:30 – Influencer marketing is next
25:22 – $50K a month in labor vs. a couple grand in tokens
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Get in Touch with Emma Rainville
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@followtheybrpodcast
Website: https://wizardofops.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emma_rainville512
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rainvilleoperationsguru
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@emma_rainville512
Connect with Mitch Barham
Mastermind: https://paidadsmastermind.com/
Website: https://barhammarketing.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardprenuer
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitch-barham
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@beardprenuer
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