📡 Network / distribution moatintermediate⏱ 12 weeks·Writer / video creator / designer with a ~10 follower starting point

AI-Augmented Creator

Build an audience around taste and perspective — the parts of creative work AI can't fake. 12 weeks to your first 1,000 true followers.

Anyone can generate text or images; very few can build a coherent point of view people return to. This tract is for writers, video creators, designers, and educators who want to use AI as a force multiplier without becoming interchangeable with it. The compounding asset is taste + a body of work — not raw output volume.

What this builds

Primary moat

Network / distribution moat

A relationship with people who pay attention. 1,000 true fans, an email list, a community — these don't disappear when a new model ships. They're the only AI-resistant marketing.

Side-effects

🎯 Taste moat — Judgment AI can't fake

🛡️ Trust moat — Buyers pick you specifically

Goals

Outcomes to drive toward over the tract

Define your point of view in one sentence

Most fail because they're 'a person who posts about X' instead of 'the person who believes Y about X'.

⏱ 4 weeks

Reach 1,000 engaged followers/subscribers

1k is the threshold where compounding starts. Everything past it is faster than everything before.

⏱ 12 weeks

Habits

Recurring practices that build the underlying skill

Ship one piece of public work weekly

Cadence beats quality at the start. The taste-finding loop only works if you publish.

weekly

Daily 20-min consumption-with-notes block

Build your reference library. Creators with strong taste read more than they write.

daily

Resources

Curated reading the steps assume you've absorbed

1,000 True Fans · Kevin Kelly

The original essay. Still the right mental model for sustainable creator economics.

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Show Your Work · Austin Kleon

How to share work-in-progress without overthinking. Antidote to perfectionism.