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Turning messy manual operations into AI workflows that save founders 100+ hours a week one real build at a time.
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I Gave Opus 5.5 the Jobs That Eat My Evenings (opens the original)
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TLDR: Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 on 22 September. It costs less than Opus 5 and it finishes work instead of getting 70% of the way there. I spent a few days handing it the repetitive jobs that eat my evenings. Below are the exact prompts, what came back and tips to get more out of it.In this articleHow to access it and what it costsThe effort setting you need to changePrompt 1: one newsletter into three reelsPrompt 2: a pitch deck that updates its own numbersPrompt 3: a client onboarding
I Stopped Answering the Same Support Question Twice (opens the original)
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TLDR: The same few support questions get answered by hand every week and nobody notices, because each reply only takes three minutes. Three minutes times forty is a working day a month spent retyping an answer that should have been a link.This is one of the most expensive things in support and it shows up in no report. Ticket volume gets tracked. Response time gets tracked. “Questions we keep answering but never wrote down” gets tracked by nobody, because finding it means reading a month of emai
I Automated Everything That Happens After a Client Signs (opens the original)
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TLDR: Every time you sign a new client, you probably spend the next 20-40 minutes doing the same six things: writing a welcome email, creating a Notion folder, dropping in a project brief, sending a kickoff link, sharing an intake form and updating your tracker.This article shows how to collapse all of it into typing one row in a Google Sheet. No CRM subscription, no Zapier, no paid tiers, no automation platform. Just a Google Sheet, one Apps Script and your Claude API key. Setup time: about an
How To Stop Losing Warm Leads to Slow Generic Replies (opens the original)
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TLDR: Two things are killing your inbound leads right now. You're either replying hours too late while the prospect has already booked a call with someone faster, or you set up a generic autoresponder that sends the same canned reply whether someone asked about a $500 job or a $50,000 build. This article shows how to fix both: AI reads every new form submission, researches the prospect's company and drafts a personalized reply with relevant context and case study links, sent straight to your mob
Start Here: Idea To Impact (opens the original)
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So you’ve read the AI Twitter threads, bookmarked the “10 workflows every founder needs” and the “use this exact prompt to get more of X” posts. You’ve maybe even opened Claude, typed something in, got a decent answer, closed the tab and gone back to doing the thing manually anyway.If you are done with AI theory and reallyyy want to build the thing that removes a task you are doing by hand right now, a proper autonomous workflow that solves the problem completely, you are in the right place.That
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