Why Barney?

Dear Friend,

I decided to build Barney AI — not with the goal of making myself better at what I do, but with the goal of making myself obsolete.

While writing my book, Growing Your Business 10X by Creating New Worlds for Customers, I had a sudden “Aha!” moment. I realized that AI had the potential to disrupt the $300 billion leadership development, business consulting, and coaching industry — and I would rather lead that disruption than be flattened by it.

The goal is to make world-class coaching — distilled from 30 years of coaching Silicon Valley superstars, Fortune 500 CEOs, and SMB owner-operators — conveniently accessible and affordable to every CEO and founder in the world.

Barney is designed to offer world-class leadership development, business consulting, and coaching that is 10x better, 10x faster, and 10x cheaper than the traditional approach.

Barney acts as your Most Trusted Advisor, Thinking Partner, and “Go-to-Guy” — someone you can directly delegate high-stakes tasks to and receive a professional-grade deliverable in return.

Barney is not built on the generic AI model of “ask a question, get an answer.” It is built to engage you in a coaching conversation — the kind that does not just inform you, but transforms the way you think, decide, and lead.

While other AIs may give you answers, Barney gives you the one thing no algorithm has offered before: a Thinking Partner worthy of taking your business from the incremental zone to the exponential zone.

Best regards, Robert Hargrove