What is Gen AI University?

Gen AI University transforms founders into agentic CEOs. Founded by Darby Rollins, it offers live workshop training programs where you build your AI Chief of Staff and train your team of AI and human operators across sales, markets, and operations. 40+ MarketSauce AI Skills included.

What are MarketSauce AI Skills?

Each MarketSauce AI Skill is a complete operation you deploy into your business. One skill runs a full 10-phase market diagnostic. Another runs your entire book production pipeline. Another handles video post-production end to end. You describe what you need and the system runs it. No coding required. 40+ skills in the training program, new ones added monthly.

How much does the workshop cost?

The Build Your AI Chief of Staff Workshop is $297 one-time. It includes the full live workshop series with Darby Rollins, 40+ MarketSauce AI Skills for sales, markets, and operations, all templates and source code, and ongoing monthly live training sessions.

What is the Build Your AI Chief of Staff?

The Build Your AI Chief of Staff Workshop is a multi-day live intensive. You build your AI Chief of Staff, inbox triage, and daily operating system live with Darby Rollins. $297 one-time, includes all MarketSauce AI Skills, templates, source code, and ongoing workshop access.

Who is Darby Rollins?

Darby Rollins is the founder of Gen AI University, the premium platform where agentic CEOs build their AI Chief of Staff. He builds the skills, runs the workshops, and helps founders scale sales, marketing, and operations with AI and human agents. More at darbyrollins.com.

Unlock Claude’s Hidden Powers with Zapier MCP

6 min

Unlock Claude’s Hidden Powers with Zapier MCP

Artificial Intelligence

Aug 29

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6 min

Darby Rollins

Claude's built-in connectors cover the big tools. Zapier MCP covers the other 8,000. By connecting Claude to Zapier through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), you give it a bridge to almost every app you use — even the ones without a native Claude connector. Here's how to set it up and what it unlocks.

What you'll learn

What Zapier MCP adds beyond Claude's native connectors
How to connect Claude to Zapier via MCP
How to trigger actions across 8,000+ apps from one prompt
Where this fits in building an AI Chief of Staff

Step-by-step

Open Zapier MCP. Go to zapier.com/mcp and generate your MCP endpoint.
Pick the actions to expose. Choose which Zapier actions Claude can run (send an email, add a row, post to Slack). You control the surface.
Connect it to Claude. Add the MCP server in Claude's connectors and authorize.
Prompt across your stack. Run a multi-app action: “Add this lead to my CRM, draft a welcome email, and post a note in Slack.”
Layer it with native connectors. Zapier MCP for the long tail, native connectors for the tools you use most.

What you can do once Claude is connected to Zapier

Reach 8,000+ apps with no native Claude connector
Chain multi-step actions across tools in one prompt
Automate the repetitive handoffs between your apps
Extend your AI Chief of Staff to your entire stack

Watch the walkthrough

Darby walks through the full setup in the video above, or watch it on YouTube.

Connect the rest of your stack

Zapier MCP is the long-tail bridge; pair it with the native connectors and Claude runs your whole operation. See how we build AI Chiefs of Staff, brick by brick at genaiu.com.

Darby Rollins

Author

Darby is an entrepreneur who became the world's first verified Jasper user in December 2020 and founded Gen AI University in 2021—18 months before ChatGPT launched. Since then, he's co-created AI curriculum for UC Berkeley's Changemaker program, facilitated hundreds of private AI workshops, and helped thousands of entrepreneurs implement AI systems that have influenced millions in revenue. He's the author of Buyer's Brief, creator of the MarketSauce® method, and has been quoted in Forbes, The New York Times, and The Verge on AI-powered content creation, book writing, and workflow automation. He now runs an AI implementation mastermind, architects AI systems, and co-hosts SideHustle® LIVE, the comedy game show for entrepreneurs in Austin, TX.

Unlock Claude’s Hidden Powers with Zapier MCP

What you'll learn

Step-by-step

What you can do once Claude is connected to Zapier

Watch the walkthrough

Connect the rest of your stack

How to Build Your AI Chief of Staff (The Agentic CEO Workshop)

How to Turn Any Book Into a Claude AI Skill (Live Build)

What Is an AI Chief of Staff (and How to Build One in 2026)