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❓ What You’ll Learn

• How to transform existing content for AI?
• How to get 13x better conversion rates?
• What’s the pay-to-play future of AI search?
• What will be the role of voice search?
• How do AI platform preferences differ from traditional search?
  

💎 Why It Matters

AI search is becoming the go-to way for billions of people to shop, learn and more.

🔍 Problem

AI searches are on track to overtake traditional search (Google) by 2027.

💡 Solution

Answer engine optimization (AEO) makes brands visible in AI-generated responses.

🏁 Players

• Promptwatch • Real-time tracking with conversion attribution. Booking.com client.
• PromptMonitor • Affordable multi-platform tracking.
• Profound • Tracking 9+ platforms. $20M from Kleiner Perkins.
• AthenaHQ • Ex-Google/DeepMind team. Y Combinator W25. $2.1M raised.
• Peec AI • Marketing analytics with percentage visibility metrics.
  

🔮 Predictions

1. AI search will overtake traditional search by late 2027. Traditional search will drop 25% by 2026.
2. The AEO market will reach $7.3 billion by 2031. Growing 34% annually from $886 million today.
3. Voice will become the primary interface. Local searches will shift to voice-first as smart speakers proliferate.
4. Platforms like ChatGPT and Claude will introduce transaction fees for purchase-intent searches. Pay-to-play for product visibility.
   

☁️ Opportunities

1. Optimize your own content for AI search. Citations improve visibility up to 40%. Adding statistics boost another 40%.
2. Build optimized content creation tools. Combine traditional SEO with AEO capabilities. See Frase, Copy.ai and Surfer.
3. Launch an AEO agency. Only 22% of marketers track AI mentions. Charge $4,000-13,000/month.
4. Target niche markets with design concessions. Build AEO tools exclusively for Shopify’s 2.3 million stores. Local businesses managing multiple locations is a great niche too. Generic AEO platforms can’t match specific features without degrading the experience for other users.
5. Build a browser extension showing AI visibility scores. Make the Keywords Everywhere extension for the AEO age.
   

🔑 Key Lessons

• Multi-platform optimization is essential. Traditional search engines will still be relevant for a long time. Integration trumps isolation. AEO complements traditional SEO, doesn’t replace it.
• A lot of traditional SEO tactics will transfer. Schema markup helps AI understand content.
  

😠 Haters

“AEO is just SEO with a fancy name.”
Lily Ray argues techniques overlap. But AI synthesis requires different strategic thinking than ranking for keywords. AEO uses different ranking factors than Google. Citation patterns and confidence scores don’t exist in traditional SEO.

“AI companies will shut down AEO like Google killed link farms.”
It seems like they are not incentivized. They will most likely get in on the transactional actions. 

“AI won’t overtake Google. It has AI overviews in the search.”
It will overtake traditional search. What do you picture when you hear “traditional search”? We bet it’s Google.

🔗 Links

1. From 2 to $3M ARR • Tally founders explain how ChatGPT became their #1 referral source.
2. AEO vs SEO Explained • Industry can’t agree on terminology for AI optimization.
3. Answer Engine Optimization Is The New SEO • Learn how AI chat is converging with search.
4. Proven AEO Optimization Case Studies • See how AI-sourced visitors convert at 27% compared to just 2.1% from standard search traffic (13x better).
5. AI Discoverability • Read how you can get ChatGPT to recommend your brand.
   

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🚀 Launch Platforms List shared by Shivam
10 launch platforms to get your first SaaS customers

🍌 Awesome Nano Banana Images shared by Alper Tunga
A collection of images and prompts made with Nano Banana

🧿 Guess the Company

This scheduling platform just replaced “Custom Pricing” on their Enterprise plan with actual numbers. Tiny copy change that sends a big signal about who they want as customers.

They realized they can save time and energy by filtering out people who won’t pay their minimum rates upfront.

Can you name the company?

1. Calendesk
2. Clockwise
3. Calendly
4. Doodle

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley improved feedback collection for alerts in HeadsUp. 

⚙️ Jd Fiscus made a video on building an AI-powered social media scheduler

📨 Elie Steinbock posted a customer case study for Inbox Zero

🗣️ Alper Tunga became a representative for Kombai

✍️ Knight posted his August recap

📘 Read This

What Would You Tell Your Younger Self About Life?

Sam Altman turned 30 and distilled a decade of experience into 36 life lessons that challenge how most people think about work, relationships and taking risks.

Here’s what stands out:

• Take calculated risks, especially early in your career
• Work extremely hard but not so hard that life passes you by
• Choose truly close friends over hundreds of acquaintances time is limited
• Remember that youth is valuable, so don’t waste it overthinking every decision

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How Do You Know If You’re Doing The Wrong Thing?

Here’s how to not get trapped into optimizing the wrong life path:

• Add randomness to your career path early on
• Recognize when you’re climbing a hill you don’t want to reach the top of
• Resist the lure of immediate upward steps when you can see a better hill in the distance

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⚠️ Common AI agent traps
📈 Optimization vs. growth
🏔️ The power of consistency
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🪶 Remember This

The fear of something is often worse than the reality.

🤓 Fav Finds

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📈 Growth vs. Optimization shared by Elia Zane
A podcast episode on how to avoid optimization creep

⚠️ AI Agent Mind Viruses shared by Eddie Forson
3 common pitfalls in coding AI agents

📊 Paradigm shared by Hitesh Kar
An AI spreadsheet tool to automate data collection and research

🧿 Guess the Company

This global consulting firm just launched an AI chatbot that can answer questions with decades of consulting insights.

Imagine having instant access to insights behind some of the world’s biggest business decisions.

The democratization of knowledge is accelerating.

Can you name the company?

1. Accenture
2. McKinsey
3. Booz Allen
4. Deloitte

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley added Slack and webhook integrations to HeadsUp

🦉 Jakub Nowikowski launched Noic

🔋 Sofia Vistas launched the beta version of Undodesk

⚖️ Josh Kubicki wrote about the implications of AI use in law

🖥️ Yuyu launched What Is My Screen Size

🔧 Try This

Why Do Most People Quit Right Before Their Breakthrough Moment?

To be great, be consistently good at what you do, day after day:

• Focus on being predictably decent rather than occasionally spectacular
• Push through the local minimums where most people quit
• Take actions that create predictable results

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What If Wealth Has Nothing to Do With Making More Money?

Derek Sivers breaks down wealth into a simple equation: Wealth = Have/Want:

• Wealth is about feeling like you have plenty of what you want
• Play the inner game instead of the outer game — seek ways to want less
• Lowering your desires instead of boosting your income is a shift that makes you rich immediately

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Clarity is an underrated form of leverage.

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🔧 Claude Code Templates shared by Alper Tunga
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✨ Genie 3: An Infinite World Model shared by Eddie Forson
An episode of Google DeepMind focusing on Genie 3

🧐 FocusDim shared by Shushant Lakhyani
A Mac app to improve your visual focus

🧿 HeadsUp of the Week

Building a course or community platform? Steal this brilliant revenue tactic.

What passion.io Just Did: Helped creators clone themselves to serve thousands of students at once. The AI learns each creator’s style and content, then manages unlimited personal chats.

Steal This Tactic: Give your users AI that acts like them. When creators charge more for personal attention, you earn more too.

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley extended the HeadsUp free trial to 30 days 

💬 Max launched Easy Custdev

🛠️ Alexandre Kantjas is hosting a workshop on Airtable Omni

🎉 Eddie Forson hosted the AI Mavericks 2025 Summer Party

🎙️ Sam McKay hosted a podcast on GPT-5

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What Makes TikTok More Addictive Than a Slot Machine?

Here’s why TikTok is so dangerously engaging:

• Habit loop with minimal effort. You swipe just once to start the chain reaction, then each swipe makes the next one more automatic.
• Combination of short content with high variability. Short videos with unpredictable rewards form compulsive behavior.
• Behavior data over manual preferences. TikTok tracks your reactions in real-time, adapting fast to keep you hooked.

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When Does Helping Actually Hurt Your Friend?

Here’s how to give advice to your struggling friend to make things better:

• Ask direct questions instead of assuming you know how they feel
• Don’t downplay problems or jump straight to solutions
• Give emotional support first, then cognitive support
• Avoid taking charge or being directive

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💻 A compounding AI coding framework
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Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

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💻 Compounding Engineering shared by Ben Fisher
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💬 The Prompt Report shared by Devon Artis
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🏃‍♀️ Share Aura shared by Paul Metcalfe
An iPhone app to share your workouts on social media

🧿 HeadsUp of the Week

Building a SaaS? Steal this brilliant onboarding tactic.

What Glean Did: Built a library of templates based on real customer workflows. Just pick a template, customize and launch.

Steal This Tactic: Don’t make users start from scratch. Build templates for the most common use cases.

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley added a way to track multiple markets in HeadsUp

🌐 Elie Steinbock made a video on Browser MCP

📖 Maciej Cupial made ChatGPT for Kindle

🎙️ Andrew Gazdecki was featured in the Fintech Mavericks Podcast

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Why Can’t You Focus?

Here’s how media consumption is destroying your ability to focus:

• Reading builds focus, screens kill it: Unlike books that train deep thinking, TV and internet push bite-sized content. Shifting from hour-long debates to 8-minute clips shows how attention spans shrink.
• The internet is designed against you: Platforms use psychology and design to steal attention. Even creators who built them (like Jobs and Zuckerberg) limit their kids’ screen time.
• You can rewire your brain: Take phone breaks, watch movies without scrolling and practice undistracted walks. Your brain can adapt – make it learn to focus again.

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How Do Successful Companies Operate?

PostHog is a product analytics tool that we use at Trends.vc to split test copy, track conversions and more.

In this handbook, PostHog shares how they work.

From how they get users and make them happy, to how they make money and decide what to build.

This handbook will help you get a sneak peek into how successful companies operate.

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💨 How to fix indoor air quality
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🐇 Spring vs. marathon businesses
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Success leaves clues. Pay attention to patterns.

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🎨 Good Websites shared by Paul Metcalfe
A collection of newsletter site designs built with beehiiv’s site builder

📹 Cap shared by Elie Steinbock
An open-source alternative to Loom

📊 ZapDigits shared by Shushant Lakhyani
A dashboard for accessing SaaS metrics in one place

🧿 HeadsUp of the Week

Every software tool should steal this move.

What Jotform Did: Added a “support” bot that creates forms for new users. Just type in what you need, get the form, edit and preview.

Steal This Tactic: If you’re building a software tool, instead of only offering support, turn user questions into prompts to deliver results. Cut time-to-value and boost conversions.

Spotted by HeadsUp competitor monitoring from Trends.vc

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley reached #1 Product of the Day with HeadsUp

💡 Philip Obosi made a framework for evaluating business ideas

✨ Tim Guruge launched PopHop on Product Hunt

💼 Paul Martin co-wrote a report on the state of Web3 jobs

👥 Rose unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups

❔ Ask Yourself

Do You Want to Go Faster or Further?

Here’s a critical choice every entrepreneur must make:

• Sprint businesses focus on speed: Like launching viral apps, flipping websites or creating trending products. You aim to move fast, capitalize on current demand and exit quickly.
• Marathon businesses build for distance: Like building enterprise software, a consulting practice or launching a SaaS tool. You focus on sustainability, long-term relationships and compound growth.
• Match your style to your strength: Pick based on your resources, skills and goals. Sprinters need intense focus and quick execution, while marathon runners need stamina and systems for the long haul.

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How Can Stale Indoor Air Slow Your Brain?

Here’s how to identify and fix poor indoor air quality that can affect your health and mental performance:

• Just like your lungs, your brain needs fresh air – sitting in the same recycled air makes it harder to think clearly
• Dusty, dry, or humid air makes you sneeze and struggle to breathe – but filters and humidifiers can help
• Your brain slows down by half when you sit in stale air – and you won’t even notice it happening

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💭 What is process visualization
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🐒 An AI Chrome extension builder
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The stickiest lessons come at the steepest prices.

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A video on data-driven AI tactics to win in B2B SaaS today

🤖 2025 Mid-Year LLM Market Update shared by Eddie Forson
A report on the state of enterprise AI

🐒 Robomonkey shared by Elie Steinbock
An AI tool to build Chrome extensions

🧿 Tactic of the Week

Every technical company should steal this move.

What AWS Did: Added a “Get the gist” AI bot that explains technical jargon in plain English.

Steal This Tactic: If you’re building a technical product, add an AI-powered explanation tool to reduce user confusion.

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley reached 57 weekly active users for a competitor intelligence agent

💼 Jero Esguerra launched a remote marketing job board

✨ Sam McKay launched Content Lead

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📺 Elie Steinbock reached 8,000 YouTube subscribers

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How Can Process Visualization Transform Your Daily Productivity?

Most people visualize the end result, but that creates fantasy thinking. The real power is imagining the work itself:

• Imagine enjoying the tasks instead of dreaming about completing them
• Notice what you don’t like when actually doing the work, then adjust your mental practice
• Picture the process. Think about where you’ll work, when you’ll start and how you’ll feel doing it

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Why Are You Choosing Complexity Instead of Simplicity?

We love complexity because it feels smart. But the best thinkers know that simplicity wins.

• Look for simple solutions that others miss while chasing fancy approaches
• Use three buckets: in, out, and too hard—move fast past what doesn’t fit
• Learn what to ignore because filtering beats processing everything

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🐙 A GitHub search MCP
⏰ How to regain urgency
💪 The power of failing often
⚡ A startup validation framework
🚧 A metric for SaaS revenue ceilings
➡️ And more…

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Most improvements in life come not from trying harder, but from removing obstacles.

🤓 Fav Finds

Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members

🚧 Max MRR: Your Growth Ceiling shared by Kevin Galang
How to predict SaaS revenue ceilings based on churn and new revenue

🐙 Octocode MCP shared by Elie Steinbock
An MCP that searches GitHub for best practices before writing code

⏰ The Problem of Lack of Urgency shared by Breno Ferreira
A 10-step protocol for escaping the trap of moving too slowly

📈 Breakout Market of the Week

AI Game Generators provide an easy way to create and share games, making game development accessible to everyone, regardless of skill level.

This market is growing fast: +400.0% in the last year – with a Breakout Score of 73. About 3,600 people search for these tools each month.

Want to vibe code this? Check out our full report on the top players in the space, how they make money and why this market is growing so quickly.

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley added Google auth to HeadsUp

📎 Knight built ClipSend

🌎 Yuyu opened submissions for Indie World Map

🎧 Wojtek Wozniak started the private beta for Unscribe

💻 Elie Steinbock got accepted into the Vercel Open Source Program

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How Can You Test 100 Business Ideas in Just 30 Days?

97 out of 100 ideas are trash. Here’s a tested framework that will help you find a good one:

• Filter ideas in 60 seconds with 4 questions: Can you explain it? Do you have this problem? Would you pay? Who else needs this?
• Google your problem to check if people search for it, what competition exists and if it’s discussed on Reddit
• Talk to 5 people in 48 hours because if they won’t discuss the problem, they won’t pay for a solution

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

🎞️ Zubtitle — Edit social media videos fast

🔎 GummySearch — Discover new markets on Reddit

📊 Beam Analytics — Get more insight into your web traffic

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Are You Failing Enough?

Failure isn’t your enemy — it’s a way to actually succeed. But most of us spend all our energy avoiding the thing that could change everything.

• Treat setbacks as data, not personal defeats
• Let limits teach you new ways to work around problems
• Look for ways to fail so you stay humble and keep learning

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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

📹 A screen recording tool
✨ A platform for creators
🐄 Case studies of boring businesses
🔄 How to make faster progress in life
💡 How to treat the source of your problems
➡️ And more…

🪶 Remember This

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Don’t self-reject.

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🐄 Boring Cash Cow shared by Breno Ferreira
A collection of case studies of boring businesses

✨ Zaap shared by Yuyu
An all-in-one platform for creators

📹 Supercut shared by Knight
A tool to make polished screen recordings

📈 Breakout Market of the Week

Asset Tracking Software helps businesses keep tabs on their physical assets easily and efficiently. 

This market is growing fast: +523.1% in the last year – with a Breakout Score of 79. About 8,100 people search for these tools each month.

Want to vibe code this? Check out our full report on the top players in the space, how they make money and why this market is growing so quickly.

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🧿 Dru Riley is building an AI agent to help you track competitors

🎯 Gabriel is building an AI copilot for ADHD 

☕️ Alejandro Arango posted The Myth of 10x

📚 Wojtek Wozniak built BookAction.club

🤖 Eddie Forson gave a workshop on AI agents

🥉 Elie Steinbock reached #3 on Product Hunt with Inbox Zero Tab

📘 Read This

Why Does Pain + Reflection = Progress?

Reflecting on challenges helps you learn and progress faster in business and life.

• Reflect on pain instead of running from it
• Accept that growth hurts but gets you to a better level
• Keep pushing limits because no failure means you’re not trying hard enough

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

🎞️ Zubtitle — Edit social media videos fast

📊 Beam Analytics — Get more insight into your web traffic

👤 ​Synthesia​ — Create videos with AI avatars and voiceovers

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Why Do You Keep Solving The Same Problems Over and Over?

Whatever problem you have, you’re probably wasting energy treating symptoms instead of fixing the source.

• Fix the source and symptoms disappear on their own
• Ask “What’s causing this?” instead of just treating what you see
• Turn solutions into habits so you prevent problems instead of always reacting

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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🔍 The cost of attention
☄️ An AI-powered browser
📊 What are counter metrics
💎 A list of profitable directories
🤖 A tool to run multiple Claude Codes
➡️ And more…

🪶 Remember This

Most progress happens when no one is watching.

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Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members

☄️ Perplexity Comet shared by Elie Steinbock
A web browser with a built-in AI assistant

💎 DirectoryGems shared by Yuyu
A curated list of revenue-generating directories

🤖 Claude Conductor shared by Eddie Forson
A tool to run multiple Claude Codes in parallel

📈 Breakout Market of the Week

Boxing Training Apps provide a convenient way for enthusiasts to improve their skills and fitness from anywhere.

This market is growing fast: +5592.3% in the last year – with a Breakout Score of 82. About 22,200 people search for these tools each month.

Want to vibe code this? Check out our full report on the top players in the space, how they make money and why this market is growing so quickly.

Find more growing markets in our tool – Breakout by Trends.vc

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🔗 Farid built a social share preview tool

📈 Hitesh Kar started a Substack about tech stocks

🛠️ Alexandre Kantjas co-hosted a workshop on Softr Databases

🤝 Elie Steinbock acquired hi.new

📍 Matt Spear made a page for travel recommendations

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Is Your North Star Metric Leading You Off a Cliff?

You’re probably watching one big metric while missing the warning signs that could save your business.

• Track what might break while chasing your main goal. For example, track users leaving while you focus on sign-ups
• Ask what could go wrong if you push too hard on your main metric
• Set limits for when warning metrics need your attention

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

🎞️ Zubtitle — Edit social media videos fast

🔎 Osum — Perform market research with AI

📊 Beam Analytics — Get more insight into your web traffic

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❔ Ask Yourself

Why Is Attention the True Currency of Your Life?

You’re probably wasting attention on content that drains your energy when you need to create.

• Know that focus costs energy: your brain burns 20% of your body’s fuel
• Budget your attention like money. Spend it on things that give you something back
• Track what drains vs. fills you because social media kills your ability to do deep work

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