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I turned my company’s business continuity (BCEP) policy into an app that tracks storms, sends SMS updates, and automatically triggers policy actions. When a storm, tornado, or other emergency is reported within range of one of our office locations, the app sends SMS alerts to affected employees. It also triggers policy actions to prepare for office closures and safety check-ins, while maintaining an audit trail and compliance reporting. Step-by-step: 1. The app monitors reports of storms, tornadoes, and other emergencies within range of our office locations. 2. It identifies the affected employees and sends them SMS alerts. 3. It automatically triggers policy actions to prepare for office closures and safety check-ins. 4. It maintains an audit trail and generates reporting for compliance.

I connected Claude Code to Apify's API to scrape high-performing content from IG/TikTok for ad creative inspiration, and to ElevenLabs' API to automatically transcribe videos — so I can analyze not just visuals, but the exact hooks, pacing, and language top creators are using. From there, I developed a scriptwriting system that takes rough thoughts on a hook and angle and turns them into ad scripts, drawing inspiration from winners and applying proven copywriting principles. After generating, it also grades itself against a 12-point rubric. If it doesn't score at least 90%, it rewrites until it does. I then feed it back in and say, "This is the final version." It analyzes the changes I made and updates its understanding of my style. Step-by-step: 1. I connected Claude Code to Apify’s API for collecting high-performing Instagram and TikTok content. 2. I connected ElevenLabs’ API so the workflow could automatically transcribe each video. 3. I analyzed the winning examples for their hooks, pacing, visual patterns, and exact language. 4. I fed the system a rough hook and angle and had it draft ad scripts using those proven patterns. 5. I created a 12-point grading rubric and required a rewrite whenever a script scored below 90%. 6. After making my own final edits, I fed the approved version back into the system so it could learn my style.

I set up an AI assistant to run my entire writing business on autopilot. Every morning, it pulls RSS feeds from more than 30 AI and writing sources, deduplicates them against the previous day’s digest, curates the top items, and sends me a single Telegram message with numbered, linked items before I wake up. At 11 a.m. each day, it generates an original writing craft post. The topic comes from a rotation pool of more than 15 categories, and the assistant avoids anything used in the last 30 days. It also creates accompanying artwork in a rotating fine-art style, then cross-posts the content to Facebook, X, and my blog, including the featured-image upload to WordPress. Each week, it compiles and sends an email newsletter to my subscriber list through Brevo. It pulls from a curated candidates file that I approve before the newsletter goes out. Behind the scenes, the assistant manages a fleet of five servers, including servers for my wife, daughter, and two business colleagues. It handles daily backups, monitors costs across providers, and reminds me when context windows are becoming expensive. The key insight wasn’t the automation; it was the partnership model. My assistant has a persona file (`SOUL.md`) that defines how it communicates, a memory file (`MEMORY.md`) with everything it needs to know about my life and business, and a playbook of behavioral rules built from real mistakes over time. It pushes back on bad ideas, flags risks before executing, and has genuine opinions about craft and content. That shift—from “tool you talk to” to “colleague who has your back”—is what I wrote my book about. *Harnessing the Machine* is the field guide I wish I’d had when I started. It isn’t a tutorial, because the technology changes weekly; it’s a guide to building a working relationship with something that remembers yesterday. The tech stack is OpenClaw, GLM-5.2 as the primary model, DeepSeek V4 Pro as the fallback, and AWS Lightsail. The total monthly cost is under $30. The real cost was calibrating the assistant: teaching it what I care about, what “good” looks like, and when to ask versus when to act. That’s the part most people skip, and it’s why most “AI automation” posts feel like demos rather than relationships. Tools used: OpenClaw, GLM-5.2, DeepSeek, Telegram, WordPress, Brevo Step-by-step: 1. I configured OpenClaw with a persona file (`SOUL.md`), a memory file (`MEMORY.md`), and a behavioral playbook built from real mistakes. 2. I connected it to RSS feeds from more than 30 AI and writing sources and had it deduplicate, curate, and send a numbered Telegram digest each morning. 3. I created a rotation pool of more than 15 writing categories and instructed it to avoid topics used in the previous 30 days. 4. I scheduled it to generate a daily writing craft post, create artwork in a rotating fine-art style, and cross-post the result to Facebook, X, and my WordPress blog with a featured image. 5. I set up a weekly Brevo newsletter that pulls from a curated candidates file I approve before sending. 6. I connected the assistant to five servers, including servers for my wife, daughter, and two business colleagues, and had it manage daily backups, provider costs, and expensive context windows. 7. I configured GLM-5.2 as the primary model, DeepSeek V4 Pro as the fallback, and AWS Lightsail as the hosting environment. 8. I calibrated the assistant by teaching it my standards, what “good” looks like, and when to ask for approval versus acting on its own.

I had a project brief to build an e-learning experience that would help people barbecue safely. I used Claude to generate the storyboard, ElevenLabs to create the voice-overs, and Claude Design to bring everything together into a multiscreen e-learning experience with interactive screens. Step-by-step: 1. I used Claude to generate a storyboard for the e-learning experience. 2. I used ElevenLabs to create the voice-overs. 3. I used Claude Design to bring the storyboard and voice-overs together into a multiscreen e-learning experience with interactive screens.