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Brian Curtis — Mindset × Machines
Master the
mindset.
Then the machines.
1-on-1 coaching for founders, operators, and professionals who want to think clearly, break the patterns holding them back, and build businesses that are actually ready for AI.
Free · Names your archetype · No call required
Brian Curtis
Founder, 126 Coaching
Accepting clients
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0x02Rewiring beliefs…—
0x03Installing automations…—
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Everyone has the same tools. Almost nobody is built to use them.
ChatGPT, Claude, automation platforms — the tools are sitting right there, and they're nearly free. Yet most businesses still run exactly like they did in 2019. The bottleneck isn't access. It's the operator.
Overwhelm. Skepticism. Perfectionism. The quiet fear of being replaced. Those live in your head, not in your software — and no subscription fixes them.
Here's the uncomfortable part: AI is an amplifier. Give it to a focused, clear-thinking operator and it compounds everything they do. Give it to a scattered one and it just makes the chaos faster.
AI doesn't fix a scattered mind.
It scales it.
Where do you actually stand?
Free · Names your archetype · A report you'll reread for years
Two systems. One protocol.
Diagnose
PatternPrint · EQ ProfileWe map both systems: the one in your head and the one in your business. The PatternPrint and EQ Growth Profile assessments plus a structured deep-dive put patterns, bottlenecks, beliefs, and workflows on the table.
Start step 01 now — it's free →Rewire
NLP · HypnosisUsing tools drawn from NLP and hypnosis, we change the patterns that actually run your behavior — the fear, the procrastination, the resistance to change. Not motivation. Rewiring.
Systemize
AI · AutomationThen we build. AI workflows, automations, and operating systems designed around how you actually work — so the technology serves the business instead of becoming another distraction.
Compound
Weekly 1-on-1Weekly private sessions keep both systems improving. Accountability, iteration, and a coach in your corner until clarity and leverage become your default state.
// Field guide — your patterns
Every pattern you can't see, you repeat.
Self-knowledge isn't soft. It's leverage.
The attachment style that picks your conflicts for you. The values driving decisions you think are logical. The wiring that explains why you start strong and fade. Most people white-knuckle against patterns they've never actually mapped — and lose.
PatternPrint maps them in one sitting: fourteen sections, your named archetype, your superpowers, what's holding you back, and the three things to do about it. Once a pattern has a name, it loses its autopilot power.
Free · Names your archetype
Know your patterns before you change them.
Every engagement starts with data — and both instruments are free. PatternPrint is the main event: the full map of how you operate. Short on time? Start with the ten-minute EQ check and go deeper later.
The architecture of you.
A self-reflection battery drawn from validated psychological instruments. Big Five, attachment style, emotion regulation, values, work motivations — fourteen sections ending in your named archetype and a full personal report: your superpowers, what's holding you back, and the three things to do about it.
The Driven Storm-Seeker
+ your superpowers · what's holding you back · your ideal job & partner · if you only do 3 things
How you run under pressure.
Not how you'd like to respond — how you actually have. Seventy-six behavioral items across ten real-world scenarios, scored on the last ninety days of stress, conflict, and hard conversations. You get your EQ archetype, your Growth Index, and the gap between what you know and what you actually do under pressure.
One coach.
One client.
Both systems.
This is the core of my practice: a private, high-touch engagement where we work on you and your business at the same time. The inner system — focus, beliefs, habits, resilience — and the outer system: workflows, automations, and AI leverage. Change one without the other and the results don't stick. Change both and they compound.
No pitch. No pressure. One conversation.
// What's included
- →Weekly private 1-on-1 sessions
- →Mindset protocols drawn from NLP & hypnosis
- →A personal AI adoption roadmap
- →Automation & systems buildouts for your business
- →Direct access between sessions
Results, in their words.
Everything has changed in my life. I'm not just making money now — I enjoy my life, and it is so amazing.
1-on-1 coaching
You are the first coach I worked with who actually listened to me. You didn't just tell me what to do — you understood what my strengths are and helped me work on those.
Coaching client
WOW — that test pretty much hit everything inside of me spot on. It was WILD how accurate it was. Crazy to read, and probably the most informative personality profile test I have taken.
PatternPrint — Deep Personality Assessment
// Field guide — emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence is the ability to read what's happening inside you — and between you and other people — and choose your response instead of being run by your reaction. The deal that went sideways after a tense call. The conversation avoided until it became a crisis. Those weren't intelligence problems. They were EQ moments — and they quietly decide your income, your relationships, and how heavy your stress feels.
Here's what most people miss: unlike IQ, EQ is trainable. The only thing between you and a higher EQ is knowing exactly where yours breaks down — a measurement problem you can solve in about ten minutes.
Free · About ten minutes
Your EQ is running the show.
IQ gets you in the room. EQ decides what happens there.
Make your business AI-ready.
AI-readiness isn't buying tools. It's redesigning how work flows through your business — and through you.
Workflow audit
We document how work actually moves through your business and find what should be automated, delegated, or deleted.
Automation buildouts
Hands-on builds: AI-assisted pipelines, follow-up systems, content engines, internal tools — installed, tested, documented.
Tool stack & training
The right tools for your business — and the training to use them with judgment instead of copy-paste prompting.
AI-ready operating system
SOPs and decision frameworks so your team knows what AI touches, what humans own, and how quality stays high.
How coherent are your mind and your machines?
Sixty seconds. Five statements. The dial doesn't lie.
I know exactly which patterns derail my focus — and what triggers them.
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Also in the toolkit
Hypnosis
Direct access to the patterns under the patterns.
NLP
Language-level tools for changing state and behavior.
Breakthrough sessions
A focused intensive when one thing has to change now.
Group coaching
The same work, with shared momentum.
Brian Curtis
Founder, 126 Coaching
The operator behind the system.
I'm Brian Curtis. I've spent years coaching people through change at the deepest level — hypnosis, NLP, breakthrough work — and I kept seeing the same thing: information was never the problem. People know what to do. The patterns running underneath are what stop them.
Then AI arrived, and the gap got brutal. The people who adapted didn't win because they were more technical. They won because they were mentally flexible — willing to rethink how they work while everyone else froze.
That's the practice now: mindset work and machine work, together. I help you rewire the patterns that keep you stuck, then sit down with you and build the automations and AI systems your business actually needs. Not theory. Builds.
Asked, answered.
What exactly is an “AI coach”?
Two things at once. First, a coach who helps you do the mindset work — clearing the overwhelm, fear, and old patterns that keep smart people from adapting. Second, a hands-on guide who helps you actually adopt AI: choosing tools, building automations, and redesigning workflows so your business runs leaner. Most consultants do the second without the first. That's why their recommendations end up as unused subscriptions.
I'm not technical. Is this for me?
Especially for you. The point isn't to turn you into an engineer — it's to make AI usable for the way you already work. We start with your thinking, then build systems around it. If you can describe what your business does, you're technical enough.
What are PatternPrint and the EQ Growth Profile?
They're my two diagnostic instruments. PatternPrint maps the architecture of your personality — fourteen sections drawn from validated psychological instruments, with an AI-generated personal report. The EQ Growth Profile measures how you actually operate under pressure: seventy-six behavioral items scored on how you've really responded over the last ninety days. Neither is required, but they're the fastest way to put your patterns on the table — and they give our first sessions a running start.
Which test should I take first?
PatternPrint is the main event — set aside about thirty-five quiet minutes and you get the full map: your named archetype, your trait profile, your superpowers, what's holding you back, and the three things to do about it. If you genuinely can't spare that right now, the EQ Growth Profile takes about ten minutes and shows you how you operate under pressure. Both are free, and both reports become the blueprint if we end up working together.
Where do hypnosis and NLP fit in?
They're the rewiring tools. Habits, procrastination, fear of change — these don't live at the level of logic, so logic alone doesn't move them. Hypnosis and NLP work at the level where the patterns actually run. That's what makes the change stick while the systems we build do the heavy lifting.
How is this different from hiring an AI consultant?
A consultant hands you a deck and leaves. We work on the operator and the operation together, week after week, until the changes hold. The automations matter — but the durable advantage is a mind that adapts faster than the market. No consultant can install that with a report.
What does an engagement look like?
It starts with a free discovery call — one honest conversation about where you are and whether we're a fit. From there: a structured deep-dive to map your patterns and workflows, then weekly private sessions combining mindset work with hands-on system building, with direct access to me between sessions.
The work starts
in your head.
Let's start there.
Free · Personalized report · No pressure