Ace Is Coming - Here’s How I Think We Should Prepare for It

The new Wealthy Affiliate will give us more power. The real advantage will come from knowing what to do with it.

I have been watching every preview Kyle has shared about the new Wealthy Affiliate. The interface is changing. The Hub is becoming more important. Training is becoming more adaptive. And Ace could fundamentally change the way we work inside the platform.

But one thought keeps coming back to me:

Ace can help us build faster. But first, we still have to decide what deserves to be built.

That matters because AI has made execution cheap. We can research faster. Write faster. Create images faster. Everything is faster.

Soon, agents will connect many of those individual tasks into complete workflows. That is exciting. It also creates a new risk.

We can now execute the wrong idea faster than ever.

Don’t Arrive With More Tools. Arrive With More Clarity.

One of the easiest traps in online business is confusing activity with progress. Creating a new website feels productive. So does creating a new logo, opening your first TikTok account, or starting your newsletter.

Sometimes those things are exactly what the business needs. Sometimes they are just more things to manage. That is why I think one of Ace’s greatest opportunities will be prioritization. I don’t need another AI system capable of giving me 100 things I could do. I need help understanding which three matter now.

If I arrive at Ace saying:

“I want to make money online. What should I do?”

Ace can help with that.

But I would rather arrive saying:

“This is the business I want to build. This is the audience I want to help. This is the problem I want to solve. Now help me determine what matters next.”

Those are two very different conversations.

Start With What You Already Know

This is the part I don’t want anyone overlooking as AI becomes more capable. Your experience still matters. AI can generate ideas, but it cannot retroactively live your life.

It didn’t spend 30 years in your profession, work with customers, make your mistakes, or spend 15 years in your hobby.

All of that knowledge is your asset.

So before Ace arrives, I would spend some time taking inventory of your business(s):

• What problems have I repeatedly solved?
• Who do I understand better than most people?
• What do people already ask me for help with?
• Where have I earned judgment through experience?

Ace will work best when it has something meaningful to work with. The goal is not to ask Ace to invent a new version of you. The goal is to give Ace enough context to help you use what you already have.

Let the Business Choose the Tools

I think many of us have been doing this backward. We decide on the tool before we decide on the strategy.

• “I need YouTube.”
• “I should be on TikTok.”
• “I need an email funnel.”

Maybe. But why?

Your business should determine the channel. Your audience should influence the format. The problem you solve should influence how you reach and communicate with your audience.

The way you want to work should matter too.

Someone who loves teaching on camera may build a very different business than someone who prefers long-form writing. Neither approach is automatically better. One simply fits the person and the business better. Ace should help us separate what is possible from what actually fits.

Use Ace to Decide, Not Just Produce

I suspect many people will immediately use Ace the same way they use ChatGPT now.

1. Write this.
2. Research that.
3. Create an outline.
4. Give me some ideas.

There is nothing wrong with that. But I think we will leave a lot of value on the table if that is all we do.

One of the first questions I want Ace to help me answer is:

What should I do next, and why?

Not:

“What else can I do?”

That difference is enormous. Most entrepreneurs do not suffer from a shortage of possible tasks. We suffer from too many of them.

If Ace understands the Hub, the business, the audience, the content, the monetization strategy, and what has already been completed, it should become increasingly useful at identifying priorities.

Sometimes the most valuable answer may be:

Don’t do that yet. I hope Ace tells me that often.

Make Ace Explain Itself

I also have no interest in blindly accepting everything Ace recommends. AI should improve our judgment, not replace it. If Ace recommends YouTube, I will ask why. If it recommends creating a digital product, I’ll ask what assumptions it is making. If it tells me to focus on SEO before email, I’ll ask what it sees.

Get comfortable asking:

Why?

What would make this recommendation wrong?

What are the alternatives?

What should I ignore for now?

An AI system that agrees with everything I say is not much of a business advisor.

What If You Still Don’t Know What to Build?

This is where some people will still get stuck. Maybe you understand all of this, but you still do not know your Starting Niche. That is a different problem. I built the Amazing Niche Master to help people turn what they already know into a focused Starting Niche, audience, problem, and business direction.

It doesn't replace Ace. It gives Ace something better to work with.

If you already know exactly what you want to build, you do not need that step.

Take your direction to Ace.

But if you are still staring at the blank page, the Niche Master can help you get from:

“I want to start something.”

to:

“This is what I want to build, who I want to help, and why this direction fits me.”

Then take the report with you.

More Horsepower Makes Direction More Important

At first glance, you might think AI makes niche selection and business planning less important. I think the opposite is happening. Imagine giving someone an extraordinary execution engine and they point that engine in the wrong direction.

More horsepower doesn’t help if the car is pointed the wrong way.

Ace is about to give Wealthy Affiliate members a lot more horsepower.

My advice is simple:

Know where you want to go before you step on the accelerator.

I am interested in an environment that understands the business well enough to help us make better decisions, brings training closer to the moment we need it, and lets agents handle more of the repetitive plumbing.

Pair that with someone who already understands what they are trying to build, and now we have something powerful.

And if you are new to Wealthy Affiliate, you have joined at the right time.

You are not arriving after everyone else has figured this out. You are arriving while the platform itself is being rebuilt around a new way of creating an online business. Being able to leverage Ace, adaptive training, the Hub, and eventually AI agents is designed to help you move from figuring things out to actually building.

And if you are still considering Wealthy Affiliate, this is why I think it deserves your attention now. You do not need to arrive as an AI expert. You need to arrive willing to learn, with an idea of what you want to build—or the willingness to discover it.

The technology is about to become much more capable. Your job is to give it a direction worth pursuing.

The advantage will not belong to the person with the most AI tools.

It will belong to the person who knows what deserves to be built and can use AI to move deliberately toward it.

That is how I am preparing for Ace.

I think it is how we should all be preparing.