Where the methodology
actually came from.

There are too many names to list. The frameworks, principles, and philosophies inside cyborgtalent didn’t come from nowhere — they came from years of working alongside growth agencies, world-class operators, and quietly stealing from the classics. I accepted pieces of what they taught, ran them through my own lens, broke them, rebuilt them, battle-tested them in real campaigns with real money on the line, and turned them into something that works for how I actually operate.

I’d love to say I’m standing on the shoulders of giants — except I’m not even doing that, because most of the giants didn’t know I was there. So let’s just be honest about it: a lot of what’s in here would not exist without them. The Halberts, the Caples, the Schwartzes, the Hopkins-es. Dan Kennedy. Alex Hormozi. The Heath brothers. Tim Ferriss. Koray on the SEO side. The eight-plus coaches in the network I’ve been pulling from for years. And the operators I’ll never meet whose ads, sales pages, and funnels I’ve torn apart to figure out why they worked.

Thank you to all of them. The methodology is mine; the lineage isn’t, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise.

— John, founder. 2026-05-06

We don’t cite living competitors we funnel-hack inside trainee-facing content. That stays in private R&D. We learn from them; we don’t advertise that we did. We never lift long verbatim passages from copyrighted material — short illustrative quotes only, and even those are kept tight. We never claim someone endorsed cyborgtalent unless they actually did. Influenced by is not the same as endorsed by, and we’re careful with the difference.

If you’re named on this page and you’d like a different framing — or off the page entirely — write to hello@cyborgtalent.com and we’ll handle it the same week.