Claude Fable 5.2: How I’d Make Money With It

In this solo episode, I share 12 prompts for Fable 5.2 across four areas: making money, productivity, video and content, and hardware. I run several of them live, including an audit of my design agency, a freelance job Fable 5.2 found on Upwork, a 100-niche research sweep with subagents, and a minimalist phone it designed from one prompt. I cover why Fable 5.2 can work 10 to 12 hours on its own, why it now admits when it lacks an answer, and how to sell results as a fixed-price service. If you want to make money, get more done, or build hardware with Fable 5.2, this episode gives you prompts you can copy today. Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 01:00 – Prompt 1: Audit Your Entire Business 02:05 – Prompt 2: A Freelance Job End to End 03:46 – Prompt 3: A Hundred Niches at Once 04:33 – Prompt 4: Rebuild the Ancient Software 05:25 – Prompt 5: Deal Checker for a Boring Business 06:54 – Results from Prompts 08:53 – Prompt 6: Grill Me 09:33 – Prompt 7: Operate Legacy Apps 10:07 – Prompt 8: Red Team My Plan 11:11 – Video and Marketing Engineering 12:39 – Prompt 9: Short-Form Editor 13:05 – Prompt 10: Niche Explainer Videos 13:24 – Prompt 11: One Episode, Every Format 13:56 – Prompt 12: One person Hardware Company 16:42 – A Minimalist Phone Idea 17:41 – Design and Mockups 18:31 – Closing Thoughts Key Points Fable 5.2 works 10 to 12 hours on its own, so I hand it jobs that take a high-end consultant a week. Freelance jobs and software rebuilds can now sell per output, where people used to bill by the hour. Stronger subagents let me research 100 niches in one prompt and get back one ranked table. Fable 5.2 now admits uncertainty, which opens up finance and legal work like checking a seller's P&L. Videos at $1 to $5 each let me build faceless channels and own distribution. One prompt gets me a parts list, circuit design, firmware, and a printable enclosure for a device. The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/ FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/

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• 0:00Greg Isenberg?

  Fable 5.2 is here and I wasn't going to make this video, but it is so insane and there are so many ways that you can make money with it, be more productive, figure out ways to create hardware. And today I'm going to go through a bunch of the prompts that you just need to know about, because it's going to connect things in your brain. It's going to give you ideas and I haven't seen anyone talk about it. So by the end of this episode, you are going to learn how to make money, how to be productive, how to think about building things like hardware with Fable 5.2. I'm going to give away all the prompts. And if you stick to the end, I think you're going to understand how to use Fable 5.2 better than 99% of people. So like, comment and subscribe. And if this episode gets 5,000 likes, I'll include in the pinned comment,

• 0:43Greg Isenberg?

  a link to all the prompts and some extra bonus ones. So go and pause, go and do it. And then I'll see you at the end of the episode. Enjoy.

• 1:00Greg Isenberg?

  When you're going to open up Claude, you know, if you're on, I think the max plan, it's going to say like, go and, you know, bring complex ideas to life with animations and 3D worlds and describe the result you want. So you're going to go ahead and click try Fable 5.2. Let's start with the first prompt. So one really cool thing about Fable 5.2 is you can have it just like literally audit your entire business. So what's really cool is it can work 10 to 12 hours on its own until the job is done. So you can give it a job that would take, you know, a high-end consultant a week and just have it cook. So you can say something like this, we're going to go ahead and try it out here.

• 1:43Greg Isenberg?

  Audit my entire business, the website, pricing, onboarding, emails and top five competitors. Work until it's actually finished. Keep a running log. Give me a ranked list of the 10 changes most likely to make money with the evidence for each. So we're going to go ahead and do that. I'm going to give it my business, latecheckout.agency, design agency. So it's going to go ahead and do that. And while let's do that, let's go, uh, let's go and, and look at another making money prompt. So you can actually do a freelance job end to end with 5.2. So if you look at the, you know, uh, the blog post from Anthropic, they say in their,

• 2:24Greg Isenberg?

  in their official blog post that, you know, the, I think the, yeah, the real freelance score went from 21% to 41%. So I think there's a huge opportunity to actually sell results as a productized service. What do I mean by that? We can go ahead and give 5.2, let's go ahead and open a new chat here. We can go and find a job posting. We can say, do the whole job as if you were a freelancer, then tell me which parts you're confident in, which parts human to check and what you charge for it as a fixed price service. So I don't have a real job posting off the top of my head. So I'm actually going to go and have 5.2 find it.

• 3:07Greg Isenberg?

  Actually, you go find something you think you can do that can make me money. And, you know, we'll, we'll can go ahead and do that. What's really cool is there's so many jobs that are freelance jobs that if you use 5.2 for, and you create a great loop for it and you're, you know, you could sell it and, and not go hourly, right? You can go and sell it as a job to be done. I think there's going to be thousands of people who come and go and do this. So I think this is a huge opportunity. Number three, 100 niches at once.

• 3:49Greg Isenberg?

  So one of the cool things about 5.2, and I know a lot of you are going to be happy about this, is it's much better at running a lot of subagents. So you can actually say something like this, spin a, spin up a subagent for each one of these 100 niches. Each one finds the top three complaints people have, what they pay for today and how hard it is to reach. Give me one ranked table and the five I should build, build for. So I don't know if this will be able to do this. It'll finish, but by the time this is done, but we're going to give it a try, that's for sure. Underserved and we're going to go check in later about that. So you can see, um, so you can go see it.

• 4:34Greg Isenberg?

  Number four, rebuild the ancient software. So this is a huge opportunity, just in general. I've talked about it on the podcast before, but there's so much tech debt, old software, and there's opportunities to go and rebuild that for people. So you can go basically say something like this, here's the spreadsheet my client has run their business on for 12 years. Figure out what it actually does, rebuild it as a simple web app, move the data over and write a one-page guide for the staff. So I anticipate a lot of people, we talked about, you know, pay per service, there's going to, uh, instead of hourly, in the past, uh, people would just go and do this hourly for people, right?

• 5:15Greg Isenberg?

  $50 an hour, $100 an hour, whatever it is, there's a, just a, an opportunity now to use 5.2 and go ahead and do that, uh, per, per output. And then the fifth one, you know, deal checker for buying a boring business, you know, one of the big critiques of AI in general is it'll go and hallucinate basically. And when you speak to people in legal, when you speak to people in finance, when you speak to people in, you know, different spaces where you can't have like hallucination, right? Now it finally says, I don't know. So what's really cool about that is it's, it's, it's, it's a human being, right?

• 5:59Greg Isenberg?

  A human being would say, I don't know to a question, but up until this point, AI hasn't said, I don't know. So this is like a full-on new, uh, era in the AI world, right? The I don't know era. And this is really cool. I don't know, I'm not going to say it's AGI, but you know, uh, if, if it was AGI, that, that does feel like kind of human-like, right? So you can say something like, here's the seller's P and L on listing. Find everything that doesn't add up, mark each number as verified, unverified or suspicious, and write the 15 questions I said, ask before making an offer. So much opportunity to do stuff like this.

• 6:40Greg Isenberg?

  This has been out of reach, finance, legal, stuff like that has been out of reach. But I, I think you're going to see a lot more professionals actually going and using 5.2. So that's exciting for them as well. Let's go ahead and check our prompts and see what we got so far. So, um, when you actually go through, this is for, yeah, LCA, our, our design agency and design engineering agency. It goes and does an incredible job at ranking all the different calls to, uh, all the different feedbacks. And I'm not going to go through exactly all of this, um, but it's just every time I've

• 7:23Greg Isenberg?

  been, I've asked, uh, this prompt on, on a bunch of different of the things that we've been incubating, it has been just so, uh, to the point, like literally all this is to the point. So whatever it is you're working on, this is a no-brainer, do an audit and then you have this running log too. Let's go to the freelance job. Yeah. How do you automate a freelance job? So it's gone, it's gone and picked a job, the equity analyst to produce report on TDMX on Upwork, $450 fixed price, intermediate level is posted two days ago. Now it's actually gone and done the work. And look at this. This is insane.

• 8:08Greg Isenberg?

  This is going and like, would someone pay, you know, it's still working on it, but would someone pay hundreds of dollars for this? Absolutely. And that's the crazy part, like this is, there's so much opportunity to go and actually do things like research, um, things like I've talked about on this channel before, creative, uh, doing creative output, um, using some of these tools. So a lot of, a lot of, uh, stuff and opportunity here.

• 8:39Greg Isenberg?

  And still working on this one. But yeah, the sub agent thing is a really big deal. You're getting better output. It's going to be faster. There's just like multiple things that you can do at the same time. So that's really, really cool. Let's go to being productive. Cause you know, I want to be productive. You want to be more productive. So what are some tips to with Fable 5.5? The grill me prompt. Interview me with 20 questions about how I make decisions in my business one at a time. Then turn my answers into a skill file you'll follow from now on.

• 9:16Greg Isenberg?

  This is a 5.2 prompt that everyone, literally everyone should, should be using. This is going to make, you're just going to get more, more output, better output from 5.2. It's a no brainer. Number seven, run the apps that never had an API. What's really cool about 5.2 is it's really strong at operating a computer. So you can say something like, open our old invoicing app, export last month's invoices, match them against the bank statement and list anything unpaid, and then ask me before sending anything. So I'm happy to see that in 5.2. Once you start playing with it, you're just going to see it's, it's really good at operating

• 10:00Greg Isenberg?

  a computer, feels a lot better. So that's been, that's a huge win, win here. Number eight, red team, my plan. So you can say something like, here's my plan for the next quarter. Argue against it like an investor who wants to pass, then tell me the one thing that you, that would change your mind. One of the things I did here is I literally gave it my vision deck for LCA, my design engineering agency. And I was just like, you know, I had, I had some of my goals in there and I asked it what it would change. And I was floored with just how good it was. I had actually asked a really well-known sort of advisor to also give me feedback.

• 10:43Greg Isenberg?

  And it was in some ways, the 5.2 feedback was even better than that. So kind of crazy. If you, if we, if we move on to the video and content section, you know, if you've been watching this podcast, Startup Ideas podcast, you know that I've been talking a lot about marketing engineering and just using AI agents to do marketing. 5.2 is an insane deal. Around just like what you've been able to do. My friend Riley just posted just a 40 or 30 or 40 second, like basically one prompt, almost like documentary style video that he was able to do.

• 11:28Greg Isenberg?

  It's actually insane. You can do explainer videos. I saw my friend, my friend Hunter created an explainer video, one prompt, and it's beautiful. Just absolutely stunning visuals. So where are the opportunities there, right? Faceless content on explainer videos. Why aren't you creating a vertical, you know, YouTube channels and Instagram, you know, own that distribution, right? Distribution is everything. So if you can start pumping out stuff using 5.2 and it only costs you $1, $2, $3, $4, or $5 a video, you can create a really great business there. So I was thinking about that in the context of real estate, like, you know, real estate,

• 12:11Greg Isenberg?

  you know, on one hand is such a great business, but is so capital intensive. This is so little capital intensive. And in some ways, social media is almost like real estate in that sense, right? You're, you're putting out these like mini real estate videos and stuff like that, and it earns you ad sense and it earns you followers that you can later sell. So there's a lot of opportunity here. I'm going to go through three, three quick prompts. You can have it be your short form editor. By the way, I'm going to include all these prompts in the description. You can go grab it, but obviously like, comment and subscribe for more. Here's a raw four minute talking head video. Cut the silences and retakes, find the strongest 45 seconds, add captions and simple motion

• 12:56Greg Isenberg?

  graphics and export it to video at vertical, and then show me three different hooks. So this is a no brainer thing, using it as your short form editor. I'm, I'm doing this. I'm, and the 10th prompt is the explainer videos for the niche. So that's what I talked about with Hunter. You can say something like, make a 60 second animated explainer on this topic for this niche. Write the script, build the animation and code and render it, then make five variations with different first lines. And then lastly, one episode every format. So you just say, you know, here's the transcript, make a PDF playbook, five tweets in my voice, a newsletter, a free tool someone could use in two minutes, and then flag any claim you couldn't verify.

• 13:38Greg Isenberg?

  So this is about doing long form content and then turning that into a tsunami of different formats. So I think there's a huge opportunity to do long form and then just sort of have it pump out all these different things, because now 5.2 is that, that good. And last but not least, I've been excited about this for a while. I'm actually going to do an episode on hard, one person hardware companies and well, hardware companies and general robotics and AI. But 5.2 designed three working devices from a single prompt. And so I was like, I saw that Anthropic had said that, I think in, in one of their blog posts. So like, you know, you can just go and, and give it a prompt like this.

• 14:23Greg Isenberg?

  Design a small device that does one job for one niche. Give me the parts list with the prices, the circuit design, the firmware and an enclosure I can print. And then you can say, tell me what it costs to make 100. And you can go and make like a, like a full on Shopify with it, right? So like, maybe design a small device that maybe is kind of like BlackBerry, the phone that doesn't have a million apps and is focused on people who aren't trying to doom scroll all the time.

• 15:07Greg Isenberg?

  So you have like an idea in the shower, you're like, oh my God, wouldn't it be cool if there existed some phone that was more minimalist? Actually, a friend of mine has a business like this called the minimalist phone, but let's say you were trying to create something like this. You can go and just ask it to do this and it's going to design you the hardware. It's going to give you the part list. It's going to give you the circuit design. It's going to give you the firmware. This was something that would literally cost thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars that you can now do with 5.2 with a high degree certainty that this is actually not, it's not going to hallucinate.

• 15:49Greg Isenberg?

  And of, you know, of course there's going to be some hallucination, like in AI in general, you just have to assume there might be some hallucination or there might be some, you know, even when you work with people, like there's some hallucination. So I wouldn't a hundred percent trust it, but from my experience working with 5.2, I've just been really impressed with what, what I've been able to get out of it. So look, it's saying, I'll design this 4G and text handheld with a physical thumb keyboard and a monochrome screen, starting with live part pieces, the circuit firmware and printable enclosure, enclosure. And it's, you know, I really like, just like the UI of Claude in general, honestly, with

• 16:32Greg Isenberg?

  the side, like I think, you know, this artifacts over here, it's starting to get like really nice and, and cool and good. So overall, I'm excited about that. So here you can see they're naming the, the device, plain one, a calls and text handle with a real keyboard. Plain one is a pocket 4G phone that does six things, calls, text, context, notes, clocked and alarm. It has a 45 key thumb keyboard, a 2.7 inch black and white screen. You can read in sunlight and no browser feed or app store. The screen is the anti doom scroll feature. It's a sharp memory LCD. I mean, this is crazy. Like, you know, I've talked about vibe, vibe, vibe manufacturing, talked about vibe manufacturing

• 17:17Greg Isenberg?

  on the pod before. We're with 5.2, we are truly here. We are truly here. You know, I think when Astro came out, we just saw, it felt like, okay, this is where it's going and you're going to be able to do this. With 5.2, it just takes it even to the next level. So it's gone and created the actual device. And if you go through the document, the plain one document, it has basically everything, all the parts, the whole circuit design, like look how crazy this is. The power rails, the pin map, the modem connections, the display connectors, the keyboard matrix.

• 18:01Greg Isenberg?

  If you wanted to have it design an operating system based on, an operating system based on Android, like that would be, I think, a really cool idea. It can, you know, could do that. It's showing you what it could look like. This is bonkers. Like this is absolutely bonkers. You know, if you don't look at this and you're, and it doesn't get your mind going 100 miles a minute, I don't know, because this is just, just absolutely incredible. Vibe manufacturing is here. And I think one of the coolest parts about 5.2 in general is it's probably the most thoughtful model that exists today. And that means you're going to get better output.

• 18:46Greg Isenberg?

  It means it's going to control tools, tools like Blender, DaVinci, whatever tools you're using or giving it, it's going to just be better at using those tools. So we now have the most thoughtful model on the planet. What are you going to do with it? These are just a few of my examples and there's hundreds more, thousands more. We're going to be discovering these use cases. Please let me know in the comment section, how you're using it, what you're seeing work. This has been a pleasure just riffing with you, going through some of my ideas. Hope it's been helpful. Hope it's gotten that creative juices flowing. I am rooting for you to go and build whatever your heart desires. This is an incredible time to be building, which fires me up. I love a model release day. I know you do too.

• 19:31Greg Isenberg?

  I'll see you next time and have a creative day.