Maximilian Lambsdorff, CEO @ RAY AI
The shift already happened. Inbox triage, research briefs, CRM hygiene, meeting prep, travel logistics. Every one of these tasks now has an AI-native way to do it that is faster, sharper, and more consistent than the manual version. A RAY who reaches for AI by default delivers in 20 minutes what a traditional EA delivers in two hours.
Leverage compounds. A founder hiring a RAY isn't buying 40 hours a week. They're buying 40 hours multiplied by every tool the RAY knows how to wield. Claude for drafting and reasoning. Perplexity for research. n8n for the workflows that should never be touched twice. The multiplier is the product.
AI without judgment is noise. This is the part most "AI assistants" get wrong. Models hallucinate, miss context, and over-format. A RAY's job is to be the human layer that catches it, corrects it, and ships work the principal can trust without re-reading. Literacy means knowing when to use the tool, when to override it, and when to throw the output away.
That's why Week 2 of the bootcamp exists. Five days, full-time, on Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Not "intro to prompting." Real workflows: how to build a research brief that actually answers the question, how to draft in a principal's voice, how to chain tools so the work runs itself.
The result: every RAY ships on day one as an AI-first operator. Not someone learning on the job with the client's inbox as the training set.
Time and energy are the only assets that matter at the top. AI literacy is how we give more of both back.
