The State of the Industry
Where network marketing stands right now. Attrition, saturation, shrinking attention, and why the copy and paste approach stopped producing the results it used to.
Not Your Upline's Playbook 2.0: The New Era of Network Marketing with AI
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Agentic AI and what it changesUse it right away
No company promotion, ours includedAny company · Any rank · Any stage
Agentic AI and what it changesUse it right away
We get paid to build AI systems for businesses inside and outside this industry.
Leah Steele Barnett · Donna Valdes
01 · State of the Union
Where things
Where things
actually stand
The tools changed. Most of this industry is still working the way it did three years ago.
The scripts still circulate. The trainings still run. The playbook your upline handed you still gets passed down as though it works.
Most people running it have watched their results fall off and have not been told why.
AI is a large part of the reason. The gap between someone running real systems and someone doing all of it by hand is now obvious, and it gets wider every week.
This session is a straight look at where the industry stands right now, what is coming next, and what to do about it.
02 · The Territory
The ground
The ground
we are covering
Two strategists, one night, having the conversation this industry keeps avoiding. Bring a notebook. We will cover a lot of ground.
The Agentic Shift
The move from tools you prompt to systems that act. Agents that qualify, follow up, onboard, and execute while you sleep. Very few people in this industry are building this way yet.
Leverage Without Loss of Self
There is a point where using this technology starts replacing the person using it. Where that line sits, how to tell when you have crossed it, and how to work at scale with your voice and your authorship intact.
Systems That Hold
What we are building for our own teams right now. The systems, automations and follow-ups. What duplication looks like when the repeatable work is handled and your time goes to the parts that need a person.
Signal and Noise
How to tell a useful tool from a well marketed one. There is a lot of money being spent right now on software that does very little, and the marketing around it is only going to get louder.
Start Right Away
Things you can set up this week. We will show you what we use and how it is put together.
The Edge
Where the edge
Where the edge
actually is
Most people in this industry are using AI to make more content. That layer is already commoditized. Everyone sounds the same and audiences have stopped responding to it.
The advantage sits one level down, in the systems that decide what happens next. Salesforce surveyed more than four thousand sellers this year and found top performers were 1.7 times more likely to be running AI agents for prospecting than everyone else. Everyone has the same tools now. The separation comes from what gets built with them.
That is what we build for our team, and it is what we are going to get into. Why we build it the way we do, what these systems are designed to handle, and where the real separation shows up in a market where access is no longer the hard part.
No company or product promotion on this call, ours included.
03 · The Room
Who should
Who should
be on this call
/01Anyone building a team who wants to know what is actually changing
/02Leaders whose teams keep asking about AI and want a straight answer
/03Experienced earners still running most of their business manually
/04New distributors who want to set things up correctly the first time
/05Corporate and field leadership watching their organization change
/06Anyone outside network marketing who wants to see how AI changes a sales organization
04 · Your Hosts
Two strategists
Leah Steele Barnett
AI Educator · Digital Systems Strategist
Donna Valdes
Business Strategist · Systems & AI Integration
Two strategists
who build this daily
Faith-led cultural commentator, AI educator, and digital systems strategist working at the intersection of technology, culture, and stewardship. Host of The Cul✞ure Cast and co-host of Faith on the Fringe.
Leah mentors network and affiliate marketers in building ethical, sustainable income through AI-driven systems, clear positioning, and long-term value creation. Her work centers on discernment, authorship protection, and responsible leverage, helping creators and business owners build influence without compromising identity, faith, or integrity.
Business strategist with twenty-five years behind her, running operations for Fortune 1000 companies and building with seven-figure entrepreneurs, with millions in sales generated along the way.
Donna builds the infrastructure most people never get around to. AI integration, automation, funnels, and follow-up systems that keep working after you step away from them. She has spent her career turning businesses held together by effort into businesses that run on their own, and she does it without hype, without jargon, and without pretending there is a magic button.
05 · Before You Ask
The questions
The questions
we always get
No. We don't allow company or product promotion on this call, ours included. Everyone in the room builds somewhere and it stays that way. We will get into why we build the kinds of systems we build, which is a different conversation entirely.
No. We explain as we go and nothing assumes prior knowledge. Experienced builders will still find material here that is not being covered much in this industry yet.
None. Register through the Zoom link and show up.
Register anyway. We send the replay to everyone on the registration list. Live is better if you can make it, since we take questions at the end.
Yes. What is happening to distribution organizations is happening to any business with a sales function. It is showing up here faster, that is all.
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