ACQ is going AI-first. This is your IT team's field guide to the tools you have, when to use them, and the habits worth building. Bookmark it. Come back to it.
#ai-lab in Slack or submit a tech ticket.Fast, light, and more capable than most people expect.
Great for
Quick questions, short summaries, simple edits, drafting outlines, anything you'd ask a knowledgeable colleague in passing.
Your everyday default. Handles the vast majority of real work.
Great for
Writing, research, analysis, coding, emails, reports, anything requiring real depth.
Deep reasoning. For when the stakes are genuinely high.
Great for
Complex analysis, architectural decisions, high-stakes work where being wrong has real consequences.
All available to you. Each one has its sweet spot. The fastest way to maximize your time, tokens, and output is to mix them — use the right tool for each job, and don't be afraid to bounce between them.
Your primary workspace at ACQ. Best for writing, research, analysis, coding, and most professional work. Three models, covered above. Beyond the chat interface, four modes worth knowing:
Projects
The most underused Claude feature. Upload your files and instructions once, and every chat inside the Project starts with full context. Stop re-explaining yourself every session. Shareable with teammates.
Cowork
Describe an outcome, Claude works through your local files and delivers finished output. Scheduled tasks too. Use it when you want to delegate, not chat.
Design
Describe a deck, one-pager, or prototype. Claude builds it on a canvas you can edit. Exports to PDF, PPTX, Canva, HTML. Runs on Opus 4.7, burns tokens fast — precision tool only.
Code
Terminal-based. Reads your codebase, writes and runs code, handles git. Don't blindly accept changes — review what it's doing before you approve, especially anything touching auth, infra, or production.
A strong general-purpose tool and a great second opinion. ChatGPT Business runs on GPT-5.3 and 5.5 with effectively unlimited base model usage. The advanced reasoning models (Thinking, Pro) have their own weekly caps, so save those for the work that needs them.
Deep Research
GPT browses multiple sources, synthesizes them, and produces a structured report. Good for competitive research or market overviews when you need breadth fast.
Canvas
A document editor alongside the chat. Click into a paragraph and ask GPT to rewrite just that section. Good for longer writing and editing work.
ACQ Custom GPTs
Your workspace has purpose-built GPTs made by your teammates. Find them under "Popular at Acquisition.com" when you open ChatGPT:
A custom AI advisor built on GPT and trained on Alex Hormozi's content — $100M Offers, $100M Leads, Models, and workshop material. Has its own POV and voice, so it's a different feel from a general assistant.
Best for: offer building, pricing strategy, sales positioning, lead generation frameworks, anything where you want an answer grounded in Hormozi's frameworks. You can use it for general work too — but Claude and ChatGPT are usually stronger picks for those.
| Claude | ChatGPT | ACQ AI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Deep work, writing, analysis, coding | General tasks, research, image gen, second opinion | Hormozi-style business strategy |
| Login | SSO via Google | SSO via Google | Google OAuth — ai.acquisition.com |
| Usage limits | 5-hour rolling window + weekly cap | Effectively unlimited base; Thinking/Pro models capped weekly | N/A |
| Install via Iru | Yes | Yes | No, browser only |
The biggest difference between fast and slow AI users isn't which model they pick — it's the prompt they wrote. A sharp prompt saves time, cuts tokens, and often beats reaching for a heavier model. Build the habit: be specific, give context, state what "done" looks like.
Upload your context and instructions once. Every chat in that Project starts fully loaded. Stop re-explaining yourself every session.
When you're refining the same output — "make it shorter, cut the second paragraph" — stay in the chat. Claude works best with feedback.
Long conversations burn more tokens and slow Claude down. When you move to something different, start fresh.
When Claude builds something substantial — a doc, a script, a table — ask for it as an artifact. It opens in a side panel you can edit and download directly.
AI is a fast first draft, not a source of truth. Check anything factual before you act on it.
This guide covers the tools. The bootcamp covers the foundations. The #ai-lab channel covers the tactics.
Use all three. The fastest people at ACQ aren't waiting for the next training to learn something new. They're watching, posting, and shipping.
6 trainings between April and July covering AI literacy, prompting, research, workflow redesign, and agents.
Week of May 18 in the bootcamp is dedicated to prompting. #ai-lab also has practical examples from Sharan and Jermaine.
Use cases, AI Corner videos, prompt libraries, and the weekly AI kickoff post.
Cross-functional teams, July 9, building real tools. Show up.
#ai-lab Slack channel is the hub for the AI-first initiative — use cases, resources, training notes, and a weekly AI kickoff post. All recordings and materials live in the Notion space linked there.
/tech — that opens the Slack bot menu to create a tech ticket. Or visit orca.acq.com/tickets directly.