VaynerX says a $20,000 internal app was prototyped in hours with Claude
tomcrawshaw01 · x · 2026-07-25
Tom Crawshaw says AJ Vaynerchuk showed how a nine-figure business empire is using AI to build internal tools fast.
- AJ Vaynerchuk co-founded VaynerX and now runs a large operation with nearly 3,000 people.
- At VaynerSports, he manages 75 NFL players, and scheduling player meetings became a major headache.
- A developer quoted him $20,000 for a month of work to build a fix.
- Instead, he dropped a screenshot and a 45-second voice memo into Claude and had a first working version of the app within a few hours.
- Crawshaw says they have repeated this approach more than 40 times inside the business.
The example is less about one app than about how large companies are turning LLMs into rapid internal software production.
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