Tech with Ty

[T]echnology: My Office Desktop Is Working While I Watch the Sunrise
[E]ducation: FinCen Again
[C]oaching: Skyscraper
[H]ow To: Place Sponsored Ads On ChatGPT

[T]echnology: My Office Desktop Is Working While I Watch the Sunrise

It’s Wednesday morning and I’m standing outside the camper in 40-degree weather while my family sleeps in, Diet Mountain Dew in hand… and my office desktop back home is still doing Tech With Ty and ToryOS work without me. 😏

Not because I dragged a laptop to breakfast.

Because Claude Dispatch is borrowing my already‑trained office machine while I do dad stuff.

We’ve already talked about how Claude can actually use your computer now…move the mouse, click, type, dig through files like a very polite robot assistant. The missing piece was: “Cool, but what if the good computer, the one with all my context, is sitting in the office 300 miles away?”

That’s where Dispatch comes in. ⬇️

Dispatch is: “My office desktop is on, loaded with my Tech With Ty drafts, ToryOS docs, and random screenshots. Claude, go work there while I’m out living my life.”

Here’s what I actually did this week. ⬇️⬇️ 

One morning outside the camper, I opened Claude on my phone and told it: 

“On my office desktop, run the Tech With Ty research workflow you usually do each week, but do it a day early. Pull ideas from my usual sources, summarize them, and email me a short list of Tech With Ty topic ideas so I can finalize the newsletter today instead of tomorrow.”

Claude spun up on the desktop that already knows my world, did the research, drafted the email, and sent the ideas over so I could lock in the issue early and go four‑wheeling with my family instead of staring at my inbox later. 📧 

Another morning, same 40‑degree setup, different ask: 

“On my office desktop, research and sketch a workflow for adding an MCP connection for ToryOS.com using Beehiiv’s new MCP connector. Outline the steps, any auth flows I need to care about, and where this would sit in my current architecture, then save it as a doc in my ToryOS folder.” 

Because that machine is the one trained on all my Tech With Ty and Tory stuff, Claude can actually reference my existing docs and notes while it builds the plan — way better than trying to fake that context from a naked laptop. 💻 

Do I wish all of that context was persistent across devices? Absolutely. Right now, the office desktop is still the brain, and Dispatch is just me remotely pointing that brain at new problems. 

Once you see it that way, it’s not some cute trick. 

It’s, “What else can I hand the brain while I’m not sitting in front of it?”

Real estate version, if you’re not building SaaS in your spare time: 

Is it perfect? Nope. It will misclick, it will get confused, and you should absolutely start with low‑stakes, non‑sensitive stuff first. ⚠️ 

If your reaction is “cool trick,” you’re behind. If your reaction is “which 30 minutes of my day can I hand this?” you’re ahead.

[E]ducation: FinCen Again

Here's something that directly affects real estate professionals, and the news just changed last week. ⬇️⬇️

Quick background…

The federal government (specifically a department called FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) had created a new rule to fight money laundering in real estate. The rule required that certain non-financed (all-cash) residential real estate transactions involving LLCs, corporations, or trusts be reported to the government. Think of it as a paper trail requirement for all-cash deals where the buyer is a business entity rather than an individual. 🧍

The rule took effect December 1, 2025, with actual reporting requirements kicking in on March 1, 2026.

So what changed? On March 19, 2026, a federal district court in Texas struck down the rule entirely, ruling that FinCEN overstepped its legal authority.

What does that mean for you right now? FinCEN has confirmed that reporting persons are not currently required to file real estate reports and are not subject to any penalties for failing to do so while the court order remains in force. In plain English, you're off the hook for now.

But don't assume this is over…

I checked in with my title attorney partner to get a real-world take, and here's what they said:

"We are keeping the same protocol until this is finally adjudicated so that we don't get to the day of closing and a judge reinstates. This is what happened with the BOI rule a few years ago. Ping-ponged on and off for a few months until it resolved."

That's exactly the kind of insight that comes from working with the right people. Neither the Department of Justice nor FinCEN has indicated whether they plan to appeal. If they do appeal and seek a "stay," the rule could be reinstated while the case works its way through the courts, possibly right before a closing. The BOI comparison is a perfect reminder that these things rarely resolve overnight. 

Here's your action item! ⬇️⬇️

Call or text the title company you regularly work with and ask them directly: "Are you still following the FinCEN reporting protocols, or have you paused them given the court ruling?" Their answer will tell you exactly where things stand for your upcoming closings and help you set the right expectations with your clients.

NAR will continue monitoring developments and updating members as the legal process unfolds. Stay tuned.

[C]oaching: Skyscraper

If you haven't seen Skyscraper Live on Netflix yet, stop what you're doing and watch it. Right now. I'll wait…and as someone who is afraid of heights…yes, it is a horror movie. 😂

In January of this yeaer, Alex Honnold climbed Taipei 101, a 1,667 foot, 101 story skyscraper in Taiwan, completely alone, with no ropes, no safety gear, and no margin for error. 🌆 Millions of people watched it happen live. He completed it in one hour and thirty one minutes. And let me be honest with you, watching it was terrifying. Your palms sweat. You hold your breath. You look away and then immediately look back because you cannot help yourself.

And the whole time? He looked calm.

After the climb, he shared his playlist. It was mostly Tool. As someone who loves Tool, I am choosing to take that personally as a sign that he and I would absolutely be friends. Maynard James Keenan (singer for Tool) himself reacted to the news and said, "What the heck were you thinking, dude? It's extremely impressive." That about sums it up.

But here is what stopped me in my tracks when I really studied what he does and how he prepares. It wasn't his physical strength that separated him. It was his process. 🧠

He didn't just decide to climb Taipei 101 one day and show up. He spent years thinking about that building. He studied it. He visualized every move. He even used the Tool songs as pacing tools, knowing exactly how long each track ran so he could gauge whether he was moving too fast or too slow. By the time millions of people watched him do it live, his mind had already been there thousands of times.

Sound familiar?  

That is exactly what separates top producing agents from everyone else.

I know this may sound like a stretch, but it’s about discipline.

The agents who struggle are the ones who show up to appointments hoping it goes well. 🤷 The agents who win are the ones who have already had the conversation in their head a hundred times before they walk through the door. They have practiced their pricing talk. They have rehearsed their objection responses. They have visualized the client saying yes. 

Alex Honnold didn't hope. He prepared until hope wasn't necessary.

Pick one conversation you have been avoiding or one part of your business that feels shaky. Write out exactly how you want it to go. Then practice it out loud, not in your head, out loud, at least five times before you have it for real.

The wall isn't going anywhere. The question is whether you show up ready.

[H]ow To: Place Sponsored Ads On ChatGPT

It has finally happened. The joyful, free, ad-free version of ChatGPT is no more. ❌ It was really just a matter of time before they started shoving sponsored ads in there—but as a marketer, this has me geeked. The possibilities for this and how it will change platforms like ChatGPT are endless.

First, is there a way to get rid of ads? Of course—pay up! With the $20 Plus version, you can be ad-free. 💰💰 But let’s be real: the average user is NOT paying for that and uses ChatGPT because of its convenience and because it’s free… 

The second question that probably came to mind is: how the heck can I put my name and ads in there? 

The really cool thing about the ChatGPT ads that I noticed is that they were related to what was being talked about. I use it primarily for copywriting for social media, so I got marketing company ads. But picture this: someone is sitting there going back and forth, asking ChatGPT real estate questions and advice—because you know people are doing that all the time now, right? 🎇 And boom—it suggests you as their real estate agent, with a button to call you now. Game changer.

So how do you get in on this? Right now, it seems like only major companies are being used as guinea pigs, but you can submit a form to learn more information here. 

I highly recommend getting in on this ASAP before people start finding out about it and the market becomes saturated. Right now, NO ONE is doing this. You need to be first, without a doubt. 

Now, what are the cons of this and the future? Obviously, the biggest con is that ChatGPT is no longer an ad-free space where you can chat without influence. ❌ I do have to question the answers given to me now, too. OpenAI claims its responses won’t be influenced by advertisers or by being paid to say certain things—but is that really true? Are our chats really private anymore? I’m not sure, but you can read more about guidelines and their advertising policies here: 

Until just recently, I feel like many people trusted what ChatGPT said—maybe when they shouldn’t have. But with paid, sponsored ads, will users stop using this and go elsewhere? I do think a big reason ChatGPT was popular was because of the “private” conversation you could have. 💬 

Is that now gone? And will other AI platforms follow? Is AI just going to become another subscription you have to add to the many you already pay for?

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