AI & Automation
AI tools, Claude Code, automation, and AI-assisted workflows
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How a Holiday Tech Support Call Turned Into a Full-Stack AI Project
Like many eldest sons, I have a standing role as family tech support. This holiday season, that role led me somewhere unexpected: launching a new product. The Call I was visiting my parents over the holidays when they asked for help with a recipe app called MasterCook. They’d been using it for years, but the…
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Claude Code First Development: Building AI-Operable Systems
Most developers think about AI coding assistants as tools that help you write code faster. But there’s a more interesting question: how do you architect your systems so an AI can operate them? I’ve been running production applications for years. The traditional approach is to build admin dashboards – React UIs, Django admin, custom internal…
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Starting Daily Founder Fuel
This past week, I had an idea for an app. This idea came from an impulse to jot down some thoughts about my business challenges and how they needed to be written out, journaled, thought through, and developed further. I wanted to incorporate this into a daily practice, recognizing the value of writing. Everyone knows…
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Mini AI Automations
I’ve been reading the book “Buy Back Your Time” by Dan Martell. It is a new perspective to me for how to think about hiring people. Well worth the read if this is something in your wheelhouse. One of the core ideas in the book is to find the time sucking tasks and focus on…
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The AI CEO
It was just one year ago that a user on Twitter (@jacksonfall – now deactivated) went viral. This was shortly after the launch of GPT-4, a model that was a massive leap better than the previous generation. He proposed a challenge for the AI to act as the CEO of a startup, it would direct…
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My Early AI Business Failure
The year was 2011, I was deep into affiliate marketing and AdSense with content websites. On the side I had created and launched a dozen different WordPress blogs. Things were getting unwieldy. The backups, updates, monitoring, designing, and writing content for all these websites was a lot of work, and it easy to miss things…
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Copy My AI Assisted Content Strategy
Getting and growing attention is the core of any marketing strategy. But standing out is harder than ever when everyone is equipped with high quality cameras, microphones and great software. Today I’m going to tell you about how I’m leveraging AI to accelerate the production of short form video content that I’m cross posting to…
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AI Video Personalization
Let’s explore how AI continues to transform personalization and what that means for your business. This week, we’re focusing on personalized video. AI Tool of the Week: Maverick This week’s featured AI tool is Maverick, an interesting video personalization solution that enables sending a unique video to each person. Ideal for e-commerce DTC businesses (but…
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Launch with AI: The Agile Path to Success
Maybe the algorithm is trying to tell me something, but I’ve heard a concept from multiple different people, in different ways over the last few weeks: “Now Not How” – Noah Kagan “Press Publish” – Colin and Samir “Do It Now” – Brian Tracy “Done is better than Perfect” – Sheryl Sandberg “Start Before You’re…
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The Time I used AI to Personalize 458 Marketing Emails
When the hype of GPT-3 landed and everyone was proclaiming that AGI was around the corner and Minority Report style targeted advertising was almost possible, I wanted to see what was actually doable. So I did, I grabbed data about a small subset of customers, and wrote a script that would use OpenAI’s APIs to…
