Culture, Service, Speed: Building Human Companies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Joseph Farag![]()
A framework for aligning culture, values, and customer service with digital and physical infrastructure — where creativity, execution, and mission operate as one.
About
A unique story and a different approach
From living in a car and experiencing homelessness in 2010, to building my own facility from scratch — this framework is simply the order I had to follow to build my businesses. I hope it’s helpful to the right person or company.
Before the construction of our headquarters in 2015 — and “headquarters” is a generous term for what was really a compliant warehouse and simple office space with suspended ceilings — it was a functional building to host my companies. Nothing fancy. A definite upgrade from where I started.
Then in 2018, I had to start learning marketing and communication. I focused on studying operators whose backstories I personally related to — Alex Hormozi, Andy Frisella, Gary Vaynerchuk, Patrick Bet-David, and Titan Gilroy.
I’m grateful to people I’ve never met. Their work helped me articulate our culture, find my voice, and solidify our founding principles.
Thank you.
CORE VALUES, BELIEFS, AND WHO THIS IS FOR
FOR MODERN COMPANIES MOVING FAST IN A CROWDED DIGITAL WORLD
Serving People and Your Industry at a Higher Level.
This isn’t optional. It’s as important as paying your rent or mortgage.
Without a real commitment to serving others, nothing else in this framework works.
You must genuinely want to help people — so deeply that it shows in how you operate, how you communicate, and how you make decisions. Service isn’t a slogan. It’s the foundation of how your company runs.
Moving fast in every part of the business.
Speed is no longer a competitive advantage — it’s the baseline.
Without speed, both your best work and your mistakes travel instantly across social media and the modern business landscape.
Every decision must be viewed through one lens:
Does this help us serve people better and faster?
From purchasing equipment, to hiring, to systems and workflows — speed is customer service. When you operate this way consistently, leverage is created over time. But at the beginning, it’s simply a commitment to act and to do things differently.
Communicating your company’s culture and values.
Culture must be real — and visible.
Your values can’t live in a document or a deck. They must show up in how you hire, how you respond, how you solve problems, and how you treat people when no one is watching.
Without genuine founding principles, people will see through you immediately. No AI-generated message can create belief where real values don’t exist.
Moving away from funnels and optimization as your foundation.
Apps and tools are not the strategy. Customer service and speed will increasingly replace them — not completely, but organically.
Once the core principles are in place, the trade-off becomes clear. Paid ads are here to stay, but they are already transforming — and will continue to do so. Funnels, conversion apps, and optimizations cannot replace trust, clarity, and infrastructure.
Reinvesting in people, creativity, and infrastructure.
AI will accelerate execution, but without a human approach to creativity, connection, and communication, no technology alone will grow a real business.
Invest in yourself by enabling creativity through digital and physical infrastructure — and by enabling your team to meet the challenges of the new digital landscape.
At the end of the day, regardless of AI, it still comes down to having the right people, using the right tools, and doing the right work.
4-Part Business Framework
1 / FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND CULTURE
Every strong brand starts with a clear identity.
This begins with understanding the founder’s “why and how,” documenting real principles, and building a culture that reflects them.
For existing companies:
- Interview the founder
- Document the "purpose, standards, and expectations"
- Integrate them into daily operations
- Align the team — or make hard decisions
For new companies:
- Establish principles from day one
- Build customer service into the DNA
- Make culture the foundation before tactics
Outcome: A company with a mission and a clear direction.
2 / SPEED AND CUSTOMER OPERATIONS
In today’s world, speed is customer service.
The faster you respond, solve problems, and deliver — the more trust you build.
Every operational decision should answer:
“Does this help us serve customers faster?”
This applies to:
- Communication
- Support
- Production
- Order handling
- Workflow
- Problem solving
Outcome: Better service, stronger trust, and a team that moves with purpose.
3 / DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
INTERNET & NETWORKING — SIMPLIFIED
The days when we needed computer network technicians to manage emails or servers are over. Welcome to a world of self-managed servers, switches, and tools that have only recently become 100% user-friendly.
- Imagine your entire operation had to stream live to your customers, 24/7.
With that in mind, you would:
- Wire every area of your building, warehouse, commercial space, or property
- Embed into your operations the ability to go live, stream, record tutorials, training, demos, and talk directly to visitors and customers
Technology selection… scripting videos… installing tech, removing tech, trying tech, changing tech, wiring, mics — it’s not conducive to being creative.
We can’t control Instagram, Facebook, Twitter/X, or whatever platform comes next.
The only thing we can control is our creative output.
Empower your people to create with ease and simplicity.
You’ll serve your industry, your visitors, and your customers faster, communicate more clearly, and reduce ad costs through content.

REAL CASE STUDY - ME
Scripted content is expensive, fragile, and unsustainable. It demands constant reinvestment, breaks easily, and often suffocates creativity — all while failing to deliver what customers actually want: transparency and genuine human connection.
Instead of forcing content, the goal became simple: empower teams to capture audio and video on the fly, directly inside day-to-day operations.
Nothing revolutionary.
Gary Vaynerchuk has said it for years:
“One day your hairdresser will stream everything she does and she’ll become a rockstar.”
The moment I committed to that direction, my founding principles from 2010 stopped being ideas and became unbreakable pillars.
That shift required more than fancy cameras, lights, or mics. It led me to build a physical space inspired by the regulated chemical and pharmaceutical industries I serve — designed to support operations, creativity, and visibility at the same time. A space built with the level of detail our visitors and customers deserve.
4 / PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Your physical space should support two things at the same time:
Operations and creativity
Design your environment like a functional studio:
- Clean backdrops
- Multiple camera angles
- Good lighting
- Materials and visuals that reflect your industry
- Flexible layouts for content, interviews, demos, or product showcases
This turns your office into a tool — a place where customers can see who you are and how you work.
Outcome: A physical environment that strengthens your brand and supports everything you create.

WHAT THIS CREATES
The transformation your business experiences when all four parts work together.
When your principles, speed, and infrastructure align, your company stops behaving like a traditional business and starts operating like a brand. Customers begin to trust you more because they see who you are, how you work, and what you stand for.
This framework creates long-term competitive advantages that most companies never build.
WHAT YOUR BUSINESS BECOMES
1 - A Brand Built on Trust
- Customers see how you operate — not just what you sell.
- Trust becomes your biggest asset.
2 - A Company That Moves Faster
- Fewer bottlenecks, quicker decisions, cleaner workflows.
- Speed becomes part of your culture.
3 - A Business With Lower Ad Spend
- You rely less on paid ads and more on content, transparency, and service.
- Your digital and physical infrastructure do the heavy lifting.
4 - A Team Aligned Around Service
- Culture becomes unified.
- Principles guide decisions instead of pressure or chaos.
- People know what you stand for and how to act.
5 - A Modern, Creative Organization
- Your office becomes a tool — a place built for demonstrations, training, storytelling, and customer communication.
- Everything is connected.
6 - A Brand Customers Care About
- Not just a company.
- A brand with identity, mission, structure, and personality.
THE RESULT
A business that grows through culture, service, and infrastructure — not through expensive ad campaigns.
A business that customers trust, believe in, and keep coming back to.
THIS FRAMEWORK IN ONE VIEW
A simple structure that turns a company into a brand customers love.
1 - Founding Principles & Culture
- Define who you are, why you exist, and how you serve.
- Build culture before tactics.
2 - Speed & Customer Operations
- Move fast, solve problems, and communicate clearly.
- Speed becomes your competitive advantage.
3 - Digital Infrastructure
- Wire your business to create, communicate, and build trust.
- Content replaces paid ads.
4 - Physical Infrastructure
- Design your office to support operations and creativity.
- Your space becomes a tool and a storytelling engine.