Dear Fool,

The moment will likely remain etched in my memory forever.

I mean... it’s not every day that Motley Fool CEO Tom Gardner drops a bombshell that could literally change... well... everything for me as an investor.

But that’s exactly what happened on February 29, 2024.

In a closed-door meeting with myself and a few other trusted members of the Fool’s upper management, Tom revealed that he’d been working on something radically different than anything The Motley Fool had ever done before.

And after working closely with Tom for over five years, I can say I’ve never seen him this excited before.

I soon realized why...

As Tom walked us through the intricacies of his secret project, my eyes were opened to how this could fundamentally change The Motley Fool’s entire investing approach – forever.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Before I show you the proprietary “Black Box” system that Tom and a full cast of both internal Fools and worldwide experts have released...

And before I talk more about the $500,000 of The Motley Fool’s money he is investing behind it...

You need to know what sparked Tom to take this drastic action in the first place.

The short answer?

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence... and a potential reckoning on the horizon.

The “Era of AI” is unfolding in front of our eyes at breakneck speed, and the stakes have never been higher

Whether that stirs up feelings of fear or excitement for you, I can say with near certainty that...

Fortunes will be made and fortunes will be lost as AI continues to infiltrate every aspect of our lives.

Why am I so sure?

For starters, Tom has been tracking AI closely for quite some time.

In fact, all the way back in 2018 when Artificial Intelligence was little more than a moderately successful Steven Spielberg movie, Tom went on the record saying that the coming AI era would be “bigger than the birth of the internet.”

And considering Tom personally guided his entire company and a community of investors through the dot-com boom, you can trust that those aren’t hollow words.

There’s just one problem: The birth of the internet was a bloodbath.

Sure, some investors became millionaires almost overnight by picking the right companies.

The Motley Fool struck gold when we recommended companies like Amazon, Netflix, Booking Holdings, and Nvidia during the birth of the dot-com era.

Investors who put just $5,000 into any one of those stocks at the time they were recommended would be sitting on as much as $2.6 MILLION today!

But for every success story during the internet era, there’s an example of a hyped-up company like Pets.com or TheGlobe.com that went to ZERO, bringing investors' hard-earned capital crashing down with them.

Then there were the behemoths that simply fell asleep at the wheel like Blackberry and Yahoo, missed the leap, and are now just a shadow of their former selves.

The parallels between this AI era and the birth of the internet are uncanny.

In fact, Tom Gardner has warned that:

“Certain companies are going to collapse right before our eyes, and others will become incredible forces.”

He's also added that:

“What we're experiencing together is bigger and moving faster than the birth of the internet.

And during that boom, entire industries were dismantled — from print media and cable television to shopping malls and travel agencies.

Yet the devastation wasn't contained there. Even seemingly invincible tech giants were not immune, rapidly hemorrhaging a staggering $1.5 trillion in market value across just these 10 companies:

These businesses collapsed quickly and never came back. Their market capitalization vanished.

And it will happen again now, only with greater speed and ferocity. ”

These businesses collapsed quickly and never came back. Their market capitalization vanished.

And it will happen again now, only with greater speed and ferocity. ”

Now, I’m not saying Tom’s a prophet, but I am convinced he’s bang-on with this prediction.

For starters, he’s 100% correct about the AI era being bigger and moving faster than the birth of the internet.

After all, it was only a year ago that truly marked the awakening of AI.

In 2023, ChatGPT took the world by storm and set a record for the fastest user growth in history when it reached 100 million active users just two months after launch.

And it didn’t take long for the money to follow.

In 2023 alone, nearly $50 billion was invested in private AI-related companies.

“Microsoft Invests $10 Billion in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI”

“OpenAI rival Anthropic raised $450 million from Google and others”

“Google Commits $2 Billion in Funding to AI Startup Anthropic”

“Mistral AI, a Paris-based OpenAI rival, closed its $415 million funding round”

In the public markets, tech stocks surged as a wave of interest in AI drove a $4 TRILLION rally.

And more than a few Motley Fool members saw their own wealth multiply exponentially as Motley Fool recs like Nvidia surged 245% in 2023 alone.

But despite how much money was made on the back of AI in 2023 and how quickly the technology was adopted, that was only the beginning.

In fact, Tom believes we’re still “in the bottom of the first inning with artificial intelligence,” and he’s not alone in thinking so.

Just look at the bold predictions that some of the world’s savviest investors and business leaders have recently come out with...

“We are completely convinced the consequences [of AI] will be extraordinary and possibly as transformational as some of the major technological inventions of the past several hundred years. Think the printing press, the steam engine, electricity, computing and the Internet, among others.”

“...we’ll have AI that is smarter than any one human probably around the end of next year.”

But just like we experienced with the rapid rise of the internet, as the excitement over AI’s promise continues to grow, so does the hype... and the concern of a potential bubble.

Jeremy Grantham, the billionaire investor who predicted the dot-com bust, just issued this dire warning:

“The best guess is still that this second investment bubble — in AI — will at least temporarily deflate.”

Leading research firm Gartner appears to agree, claiming that AI, and particularly Generative AI like ChatGPT which is flooding the market right now, is at the peak of its hype cycle.

And you can see for yourself what comes after the peak... a reckoning.

Indeed, the whispers of a "Great AI Reckoning in 2024" are increasing to a fever pitch.

Just see for yourself:

“2024 is a year of reckoning for AI.”

“If 2023 was the year of A.I. awakening, 2024 could be the year of A.I. reckoning.”

“2024 AI Business Predictions: The moment of truth for trust in AI is coming.”

On the flip side, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says:

“AI is going to be the greatest force for economic empowerment and a lot of people getting rich we have ever seen.”

And self-made millionaire and Shark Tank judge Matt Higgins says:

“AI will be the greatest wealth creator in history.”

With contradicting guidance everywhere you turn, everyday investors are left staring down the barrel of what appears to be an unwinnable decision.

Do you blindly buy so-called “AI stocks” like lottery tickets and cross your fingers that they don’t prove to be ticking time bombs in your portfolio?

Or do you sit on the sidelines and risk missing out on what could be the single most profitable technological transformation in human history?

Tom Gardner wants to offer you a third option for investing in the AI era that’s FAR more attractive

Because Tom has led The Motley Fool through transformative technological shifts like this before.

When everyone was blindly loading up on any stock with “dot-com” in its name as the internet hit its stride, The Motley Fool cut through the hype and recommended companies with a real shot at minting a long-term fortune for shareholders.

We already discussed some of the hall-of-fame recommendations like Amazon, Netflix, Booking Holdings, and Nvidia. (That is, of course, just scratching the surface.)

So it’s safe to say that if you were a Motley Fool member during the dawn of the internet era, you had a good chance at striking it rich.

Now, that’s especially relevant to what we’re experiencing in the market right now because Tom recently went on the record and reiterated what he said back in 2018:

"AI is the next internet, it’s just coming on faster and it’s less expensive."

Given the millions of dollars already made from The Motley Fool’s recommendations since the internet era began, it’s hard not to hear Tom make these statements and immediately see dollar signs in today’s market.

But given the elevated hype, fear of a bubble, and proliferation of “AI pretenders,” there’s a critical need to cut through the noise yet again and find the stocks with true fortune-making potential.

Because make no mistake, we're convinced fortunes will be made.

But just like the birth of the internet, there will also be many companies that fail to adapt and die, bringing investors' hard-earned capital crashing down with them.

Which brings us to one all-important question...

How are we supposed to tell the AI Contenders poised to dominate the AI era from the AI Pretenders that are about to get exposed?

Because as you’ve already seen, a similar reckoning to what we saw with internet companies during the dot-com bubble is likely set to repeat itself in the very near future with artificial intelligence.

Many companies currently bathing in the AI hype could be exposed as outright frauds...

And other legitimate companies – many of which are among the most widely held stocks in indexes like the Dow and the S&P 500 – could simply be left behind as their technology fails to keep up with the ever-evolving AI landscape.

It’s entirely possible that many of these potential “time bombs” are already ticking away in your portfolio as we speak...

So what do we do?

First off, as you already know, sitting on the sidelines quaking in fear is decidedly not The Motley Fool’s style.

Especially with a once-a-generation investing opportunity like AI, which Tom Gardner himself calls “Bigger than the birth of the internet.”

(Which as I showed above we also profited quite nicely from.)

But what if there were a comprehensive system to actually “score” a company based on how well they’re currently positioned for the impending AI era...?

After months of painstaking research and relentless innovation in collaboration with our in-house AI experts...

Outside input from some of the top minds in the AI field from around the globe...

And a grand investment of $500,000 worth of Motley Fool capital...

Motley Fool co-founder & CEO Tom Gardner has seemingly accomplished the impossible!

For the first time in Motley Fool history, he’s created an investing system that utilizes generative AI itself to actually SCORE any stock he wants, based on factors like:

• The quality of the company’s overall technology
• The potential impact of AI on their business
• The quality of the AI the company is currently employing

I was fortunate enough to see Tom perform a closed-door demonstration of this “Black Box” system recently.

When he first began walking me through the actual process, my jaw dropped as the in-depth answer to his carefully crafted AI prompt immediately started popping up on the computer screen – as if out of thin air.

Culminating in a final numerical value Tom simply refers to as “The AI Score.”

I’d never seen anything like it in my life.

And as I tried to compose myself after having seen the future of stock-picking as I knew it altered in a matter of minutes, Tom calmly ended the presentation with 11 words that will linger with me forever:

“This is the birth of a new type of investment research.”

At long last, I’m excited to finally be at liberty to share it with you today.

You see, it’s taken quite some time – not to mention a multitude of resources – to get Tom’s “Black Box” system up and running.

Not only has Tom spent countless hours in consultation with some of the preeminent AI and technology experts across the globe to refine the system to this point...

But he’s spent quite a bit of The Motley Fool’s cash on R&D too.

Half a million dollars, in fact.

And while that may seem outlandish at first blush, it merely reflects one simple fact that everybody here at the Fool already knows about Tom Gardner:

When he identifies a transformative wealth-making opportunity for members like you, he will spare ZERO expense in ensuring that opportunity becomes a reality.

A reality that’s quickly borne fruit.

After all, Tom’s “Black Box” system recently unearthed a little-known stock called Manhattan Associates, which returned a shockingly high AI Score.

Tom says that without his AI system to guide him, “The company absolutely would not have otherwise been brought to light by me at The Motley Fool.”

It works the other way too...

Take MongoDB, which at the time was actually the No. 1 overall highest rated stock by our proprietary Quant ranking system, which aggregates the opinions of internal and external analysts from around the Fool.

And yet when Tom ran MDB through his system in March, the AI Score was shockingly low.

So low in fact that Tom not only issued an immediate SELL notification in every one of his portfolios...

But made it the second of three companies on his “AI Pretenders” list.

Here’s the really interesting part, though...

Equity research firm Redburn Atlantic followed Tom’s lead and formally downgraded this company a few days later.

And since Tom’s SELL recommendation back in March, MDB’s stock has already slumped 14%.

No wonder that shortly after revealing his “Black Box” AI scoring system to me, Tom solemnly declared:

“I’ll never screen stocks the way I did before.”

That statement may have been even more appropriate than he realized.

You see, in much the same way that artificial intelligence is able to learn from itself and become smarter the more data it accumulates...

Tom envisions his “Black Box” AI system working similarly.

As it becomes more and more refined...

And the data that gets fed into it is increasingly more accurate and useful...

Tom expects the system’s AI Scores to only become more and more indicative of the strength of those companies.

Essentially, Tom’s “Black Box” will be a continuously developed, actively managed AI scoring system... and one that should only become increasingly valuable as it evolves over time.

Which brings me to a question I actually raised my own hand to ask in the closed-door meeting where Tom first revealed the guts of the system to me...

(You’ve likely had the same question flash across your mind too.)

How do we score companies that aren’t actively in the artificial intelligence field?

After all, we’re calling it an “AI Score” – yet of course not every company is even using AI at this point... or will be any time soon.

Unsurprisingly, Tom had not only considered this question himself...

He’d already factored it into the very mechanics of his “Black Box” system!

In fact, his system is designed to account for the varying levels of interaction that companies currently have with AI, and grades them accordingly.

So if you’re a company claiming to be on the forefront of technology but the proprietary artificial intelligence tech you’ve invested billions of dollars in is lagging behind – looking at you, Google – your AI Score is going to get dinged heavily.

On the other hand, if you’re a utility provider that’s only recently begun using AI to make your systems more efficient – but the early results are promising – your AI Score may be surprisingly high.

(At the very least, “high” in relation to your direct competitors.)

Simply put, Tom’s system not only takes into account how directly your sector is related to technology, and by extension how affected by AI it ultimately will be...

...but also how well you’re performing with any AI you’re currently utilizing.

You can find the comprehensive breakdown on Tom’s Technology Grouping system below, if you really want to dig in.

As you can plainly see, Tom and his team of AI advisers have put an unbelievable amount of time, thought, and research into refining his “Black Box” system already.

That said, I will reiterate Tom’s ultimate point that much like every company from Walmart... to Bed, Bath, & Beyond... to Sherwin-Williams... to Comcast... to your local corner store has a website nowadays...

He similarly believes that every one of them will eventually utilize AI – or else.

And bear in mind he’s confident it won’t take a decade or even a half-decade to get to “or else.”

Tom recently projected that "We’re going to be living in a different world 12 months from now."

In other words, you can forget about “years.”

Tom sees exponential leaps in AI technology and usage happening in front of our eyes in the coming months.

That’s why – with the stakes as high as they’ve ever been before – Tom is about to kick off what could be called the boldest chapter of his professional investing career.

And now that you know about Tom’s proprietary AI Scoring system, you need to know how he’s planning on implementing that system on behalf of members like you.

Introducing Tom Gardner’s AI Playbook ... the first-ever artificial intelligence investing system in Motley Fool history!

By now, I’m sure you agree that the ability to see the AI Scores on countless stocks is immensely valuable on its own.

Yet Tom’s taking it a step further. Multiple steps further, in fact.

AI Playbook will be a comprehensive portfolio composed of stocks with impressive AI Scores for their respective categories, combined with Tom’s individual assessment of the company’s business prospects.

Imagine combining a bleeding-edge AI investing system...

With the expertise of Tom Gardner – not only one of The Motley Fool’s most prolific stock-pickers, but a man who personally led many members to out-of-this-world returns through the last paradigm shift during the birth of the internet...

In the very FIRST AI portfolio Tom has ever been a part of...

And you start to see just how truly special AI Playbook is.

What’s more, because the era of artificial intelligence is not only coming on so fast, but also evolving on a daily basis...

Tom envisions AI Playbook as being perhaps the single most actively managed service The Motley Fool has ever offered.

Now, that doesn’t mean we’ll be swapping out of stocks on a daily or even weekly basis.

We’re still long-term investors, after all.

But it does mean that we’ll be quick to adjust our positions when new evidence or data comes to light, or a big price move in a stock occurs.

Which brings me to yet another radical innovation that Tom’s created on your behalf today...

What if you could know the Upside and Downside projection of every single Motley Fool stock recommendation you see – period?

In addition to the AI Scores within AI Playbook, Tom’s also releasing a feature we’re calling Price Ranges**.

Here’s how it works:

Our in-house Quant Team has developed a proprietary algorithm that takes into account both the current market circumstances and the unique quality of any individual company...

They then layer in Tom’s nuanced individual views on the return potential of stocks... expectations for risk... and ideas about the current state of the market as a whole...

And after incorporating all of that data, our Quant Team then runs 100,000 simulations in their model to get both a hypothetical projected Upside and Downside for any given company you find inside AI Playbook.

For example, NVDA is currently trading around $825, depending on when you read this.

The Upside projection of our Quant Team’s Price Range over the year ahead currently sits at $1,563 – representing more than 70% potential upside for the next 12 months.

On the other hand, their Downside projection is $820 – meaning the model has a hard time seeing NVDA at a lower price one year from now.

Just think about how powerful these projections could be for ANY investor...

Not only will you know our precise views on Upside and Downside projections over the year ahead, you’ll also be able to weigh how volatile we think a stock could be by looking at the delta between the two!

• If you’re an investor who’s all about hunting upside, you can focus more on our Upside projection in the Price Range – and how much higher that is than the current share price.
• On the other hand, if your main priority is avoiding potential drops, you can stay away from stocks that have a projected Downside that’s dramatically different from the current price.

Talk about the perfect tool designed to help balance an investor’s risk-reward ratio!

On top of that, as I mentioned earlier these Price Ranges will allow Tom to make AI Playbook perhaps the most actively managed service the Fool’s ever offered.

He’s made it a point to emphasize that if a holding is near the bottom of its Price Range, we’ll likely be adding to the position.

Conversely, once a stock gets near the top of its Price Range or beyond, Tom’s going to strongly consider trimming or cutting the position.

Of course, while this will require additional work on our end, everything will remain incredibly simple for members like you.

Any time we have new guidance on a position, we’ll send an alert straight to your inbox to fill you in, and you can follow along if you so choose.

Price ranges represent our best effort to estimate where the price of a stock may be in one year’s time, using a system of projections that incorporates our internal model of the stock market as well as Tom Gardner’s investing views. It is intended only as an example of potential performance and not as a promise of future results.

That gives us an AI Playbook portfolio of 30 positions including allocation guidance... as well as a “dry powder” cash position of 10% to give Tom flexibility in case we uncover a stock with a particularly striking AI Score.

And he just let me know the other day that we’ll be updating the AI Scores on each of our official holdings inside AI Playbook on a quarterly basis – so you continue to have our latest thinking on each position.

Even stocks we review that do NOT earn a high enough AI Score within their category for inclusion in AI Playbook will be updated on a quarterly basis to see if they’ve done anything new to advocate for a spot.

(You’ll even be able to view the past AI Scores over time to see whether a company is trending positively or negatively!)

Speaking of which, going forward Tom has a goal of revealing 10 new companies' AI Scores each and every week for the foreseeable future – with an ultimate goal of scoring 500-1,000 total initial companies.

Here’s the way the process will work for each company that gets scored.

1. Tom and his team will initially run the stock through our proprietary AI prompt system, and he’ll receive back an AI Score (out of 100).
2. They'll then look at the Price Range that our in-house Quant team has assigned to the stock to see projected upside and downside within the next year, and reconcile those with the AI Score.
3. Afterward, they will run the company’s 10K through an AI prompt for further data points.
4. Finally, they'll take all of the information available and decide whether the company is fit for formal inclusion into the AI Playbook.

Considering this painstaking process will occur with every single investment decision in AI Playbook, it’s no wonder Tom says:

“This will be the most knowledgeable I’ve been and the most confident I’ve been in any portfolio I’ve ever been involved with.”

He’s also belabored the point that AI Playbook is the most exclusive portfolio in Motley Fool history.

By that, Tom means only the companies that truly shine both with their AI Score and via his subjective vetting process will be allowed to have Motley Fool dollars staked behind them inside AI Playbook.

But regardless of the outcome of Tom’s extensive vetting process, members will see the results of the entire AI Scoring system – even for companies that don’t make the cut for inclusion into AI Playbook.

And either way, you’ll also receive a write-up on every company that’s scored, so you know our exact thoughts on why it didn’t make the grade for us at that point in time.

In fact, that’s yet another unique benefit of AI Playbook...

Not only does it identify what Tom and team consider the best opportunities for the upcoming AI era...

You’ll also see the companies we don’t think are currently up to snuff.

Meaning you’ll be able to identify any companies currently in your portfolio that we might consider potential “ticking time bombs,” in danger of being completely disrupted by AI.

And because you’ll see not only our proprietary AI Score, but also our Price Ranges for every stock that goes through Tom’s review process...

You’ll always get a fully quantifiable look at how we view any given company.

Allowing you to make your own decision for whether it’s worthy of continued inclusion in your personal portfolio.

Now, make no mistake: AI Playbook is the headliner of today’s offer.

Based on early interest from our members, it looks like one of the most popular new portfolios The Motley Fool has launched in years.

But because we always strive to deliver as much value as humanly possible to our members, we’re not stopping there.

See, because he has such high conviction in his AI Playbook portfolio...

Tom Gardner is placing AI Playbook inside Epic Plus, which also features FIVE diverse Moneymakers portfolios

And when you join as a member of AI Playbook, he’s throwing in access to all five of those diverse portfolios.

Now, if you’re starting to think that’s a lot of portfolios and accompanying stock picks delivered up front, I agree.

But I also don’t believe in looking a gift horse in the mouth!

Put simply, befitting an innovative portfolio like AI Playbook with its proprietary AI scoring system, Tom is always focused on unlocking as much value as possible for our members.

That’s why he demanded we include access to all five Moneymakers portfolios... AND Epic.

In case you haven’t heard, Epic is dedicated to bringing members some of the most exciting stock ideas we’ve identified here at The Motley Fool.

With Epic, you expect five or more new recommendations each month, and hundreds upon hundreds of stock picks at your fingertips immediately.

These are value-packed services that have delivered many winners for members over the years.

Then add in Tom’s AI Playbook (remember, it’s housed inside Epic Plus), a portfolio unlike anything else here at The Motley Fool.

It’s hard to put a number on a proprietary AI scoring system, a collection of top AI stock picks that Motley Fool CEO Tom Gardner selected using that system, and an on-going stream of AI Scores to be released weekly.

But we have it valued it at $3,000.

Well, lean in, because...

The final cost of everything I’ve laid out here today? $1,999*.

Five pre-existing Moneymakers portfolios, AI Playbook portfolio, Epic ...

It’s quite a list.

Now, I will say that we won’t be offering cash refunds on everything you’ve seen today.

Unfortunately, we can’t risk short-term traders joining, taking advantage of Tom’s just-released AI Scores and AI Playbook recommendations themselves, and then immediately canceling.

That’s not fair to us, and it’s certainly not fair to you.

That said, I am happy to let you know that Tom Gardner’s Ironclad 30-Day Credit Swap Guarantee is firmly in place.

With that said, there’s just one final and rather critical point I want to highlight for you.

Forgive me for being blunt, but...

I’m fully convinced that joining Tom Gardner’s AI Playbook portfolio today is a no-brainer.

Factor in that you not only get access to Tom’s proprietary AI scoring system which an incredible amount of resources went into developing (including half a MILLION dollars of Motley Fool capital!)...

As well as ALL of Tom’s top-rated picks for this AI era...

But you also get 10 new AI scores per week with the ultimate goal of scoring as much as 1,000 publicly traded companies!

That means you’ll get to see an ongoing stream of companies with promising AI scores... AND of course, scores for all of the “ticking time bombs” out there too.

That’s no small feature considering owning some of these “AI Pretenders” could single-handedly sink your portfolio if you’re not careful.

Plus, don’t forget that you’ll also have access to our Quant team’s innovative Price Ranges, a powerful tool to help determine potential 1-year upside and downside.

Price ranges represent our best effort to estimate where the price of a stock may be in one year’s time, using a system of projections that incorporates our internal model of the stock market as well as Tom Gardner’s investing views. It is intended only as an example of potential performance and not as a promise of future results.

Add it all up and the AI Playbook system is truly unlike anything The Motley Fool has ever released before.

Plus, this is the first-ever AI-focused portfolio that Tom Gardner has ever been part of.

Not to mention our first-ever portfolio of stocks that AI actually has an active hand in picking!

You have a chance to join Tom at the beginning of what is sure to be a wild (and hopefully incredibly profitable) ride.

Just like with the dawn of the internet age, there are sure to be casualties.

Indeed, to us, a “Great AI Reckoning” on the horizon seems more like a certainty than a possibility.

But also paralleling the birth of the internet, fortunes are sure to be made in this AI era.

Tom Gardner personally led investors through the internet era, largely steering clear of the stocks that were dead in the water, while our team of analysts instead helped members dial in on generational winners like Amazon, Netflix, Booking Holdings, and Nvidia.

Investors who put in a mere $5,000 at the time of those picks and held on till today have amplified their net worth by as much as $2.6 MILLION on a single recommendation.

Now, as the AI era rapidly picks up steam, Tom is setting out on the boldest chapter of his professional investing career...

Seeking those same fortune-making stocks (while avoiding the “AI Pretenders” on borrowed time)...

And he’s personally inviting YOU to join him.

Before some of these time bombs start blowing up...

Before some under-the-radar stocks that are successfully leveraging AI potentially go to the moon...

Please don’t delay. Just click the button below to get started.

To the dawn of a new era – and a bold new chapter in Motley Fool history,

Jaimin Patel
VP of Membership
The Motley Fool

Data as of 4/15/2024 unless otherwise noted.