AI Guides
How to Set Up a $0 AI Marketing Team with Paperclip
Install Paperclip, hire four AI agents with roles and budgets, and run a daily marketing pipeline for roughly $40–60/month in API costs. Open source, self-hosted, no salaries.
How Anthropic's Head of Growth Uses Claude to Grow Claude
Amol Avasare, Head of Growth at Anthropic, skips PRDs, monitors 25 dashboards without opening them, and uses Claude as his executive coach. Five workflows from the fastest-growing company in history, with copy-paste starter prompts.
How to Keep Your CLAUDE.md From Going Stale (Context Updater)
A weekly scheduled routine that pulls fresh data from your apps, reviews your recent Claude sessions, and proposes updates to keep your CLAUDE.md current.
Performance Review Skills (Self, Peer, Manager)
Connect Slack to Claude Cowork, save your review voice in review-tone.md, and run three skills for self-reviews, peer 360s, and upward manager reviews. Copy-paste starter prompts included.
Beauty & Style Analysis Prompts for ChatGPT
Seven copy-paste ChatGPT prompts that turn one uploaded selfie into a personalized visual style guide — hat, skincare, neckline, makeup, hair, eyewear, and color analysis.
AI for Wedding Planning (Part 1): Replace Your $4,000 Planner
Part 1 of my AI Wedding Planning series. Five ways to use Claude instead of a wedding planner — timeline, website, budget, seating chart, and branding.
AI Wedding Planning (Part 2): Wedding Timeline Builder
Part 2 of AI Wedding Planning. Use Claude to build a 12-month wedding timeline and sync every deadline to Google Calendar or Notion.
AI Wedding Planning (Part 3): Vibecode a Wedding Website
Part 3 of AI Wedding Planning. Build a custom wedding website with AI when Zola, The Knot, and Joy are not enough for your vision.
AI Wedding Planning (Part 4): Vibecode a Wedding Matchmaking Site
Part 4 of AI Wedding Planning. How we built a singles matchmaking page for wedding guests and what I would do differently with today's AI tools.
AI Wedding Planning (Part 5): Budget & Expense Tracker with Claude
Part 5 of AI Wedding Planning. Stress-test your wedding budget, track vendor invoices from Gmail and Drive, and get weekly spend updates from Claude.
AI Wedding Planning (Part 6): Wedding Vendor Search & Outreach
Part 6 of AI Wedding Planning. Use Claude to find vendors, draft outreach emails, compare quotes, and stay on top of follow-ups without the inbox chaos.
AI Wedding Planning (Part 7): Wedding Seating Chart Puzzler
Part 7 of AI Wedding Planning. Feed Claude your tables, guest groups, couples, and drama — then let it draft a seating chart you can actually use.
AI Wedding Planning (Part 8): Graphics & Branding with Claude Design
Part 8 of AI Wedding Planning. Turn Pinterest and Instagram inspiration into a wedding brand guide with Claude Design, then use it across your site and art.
How Anthropic's Head of Sales Uses Claude to Sell Claude
Travis Bryant, Anthropic's head of US mid-market sales, runs call prep, weekly forecasts, and 4,000-account territory scoring on Claude Cowork. Three workflows you can steal, with copy-paste starter prompts.
How Anthropic's Account Executive Preps Sales Calls with Claude Cowork
Brittney Tong, a Growth AE at Anthropic, uses two Claude Cowork skills to prep account briefs before meetings and debrief calls in minutes after. Two workflows you can replicate with copy-paste starter prompts.
10 Practical Ways to Start AEO (So ChatGPT Cites You)
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is how you get cited inside ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Ten quick wins for business owners and marketers, plus tools to track where you show up.
How to Research Any Topic Across Reddit, X, and TikTok in 90 Seconds
The last30days Claude skill searches Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok, Hacker News, GitHub, Polymarket, and more in one prompt. Only the last 30 days. Real engagement, not stale SEO. Part 14 of Steal This AI Workflow.
How to Connect Meta Ads to Claude
Meta Ads AI Connectors let you manage Facebook and Instagram ads from Claude in 5 minutes. No developer app, no API keys. Includes a simple Cowork dashboard prompt to monitor your ad performance.
How to Setup Claude for Small Business
Anthropic's Claude for Small Business plugin in Cowork connects QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, and more, with 15 ready workflows. Setup in about 15 minutes.
How to Do Agentic Trading on Robinhood (Safely)
Robinhood Agentic Trading lets AI agents place trades in a separate funded account. What launched, how MCP setup works, safety controls, and how I'd use it as a learning sandbox.
How to Setup Trades with Interactive Brokers & Claude
Connect IBKR to Claude for portfolio Q&A and draft trade instructions. Claude never submits orders; you review and approve in IBKR's AI Instructions queue.
How to Use Claude's Effort Levels
Claude's effort dial controls how deeply the model thinks before answering. Five levels from Low to Ultra Code. Where to find them, which to pick, and when context matters more than the setting.
Opus 4.8: What Launched & Reddit Reviews
Claude Opus 4.8 launched May 28, 2026. Here's what actually shipped, what Reddit users love and hate, and whether non-coders should switch.
3 AI Travel Features
Google Gemini Ask Maps, Reddit thread summaries, and Notion AI for group trips. Three features inside apps you may already use, with no new travel chatbot.
How to Book Flights with Claude
Boris Cherny had Claude Cowork book 8 flights and 5 hotels. Here's the setup: Claude in Chrome, Expedia connectors, and a Flight Booker project with two approval gates before you pay.
7 Ways to Find Claude Skill Ideas That Actually Fit Your Work
Stop copying random skills. Seven sources I use to find skill ideas ranked from your own patterns to community libraries, with real examples from my stack.
Makeup Consultant
The ChatGPT Images prompt I used to turn one face photo into a visual makeup guide with looks, swatches, and what to skip.
Personal Stylist
The ChatGPT Images prompt I used for a visual body-shape guide: what works, what doesn't, and outfit formulas.
Health Coach
Connect Strava, Oura, and Apple Health to Claude via MCP, then build a self-updating training and recovery dashboard as a Cowork Live Artifact.
Chat-Based AI vs Agentic AI (side by side comparison)
Side-by-side comparison of chat-based vs agentic AI: tools, inputs, outputs, memory, and actions. From our Maven Lightning Lesson, plus real ChatGPT and agent examples.
5 AI Tools That Save Me 10+ Hours a Week
The five apps I lean on every week: Claude, Granola, Wispr Flow, Relay, and Cursor. All have a free starting tier, and together they cover thinking, meetings, voice input, automation, and coding.
15 Secret Claude Codes
Fifteen short phrases that change how Claude reasons: five to run before every project, five for smarter thinking, and five for big decisions. Pair each code with your situation in Claude or any LLM.
5 Websites for AI Courses & Certifications
Five places to finish AI training with something to show for it: Anthropic Academy, Coursera, Leland, Maven, and Grow with Google. Free options, live cohorts, and employer-recognizable certificates.
Your First Practical Agentic AI Plan
A beginner-friendly workflow to start using AI at work in one day.
7 New Creative Tools as Claude Connectors
Anthropic just released connectors that let Claude work directly inside Blender, Adobe, SketchUp, Splice, and more — no code required.
Haircut Analysis
The exact ChatGPT prompt I used to generate a visual, personalized haircut analysis based on my facial features.
How to Give Claude Memory (Beginner to Advanced)
By default, Claude starts every session blank. Here are three levels for fixing that — from a 5-minute toggle to a full second brain.
How to Vibe Code for Beginners
A beginner-friendly vibe coding workflow from a former PM: vibe-PM first, then build apps with AI one page at a time.
Jetlag Calculator
I recreated a jet lag calculator with AI and made it interactive, so you can generate practical travel sleep plans in minutes.
Color Theory Analysis
The exact ChatGPT prompt I used to generate a visual personal color analysis.
Weekly Skill Discovery
A weekly operating review that scans your work across tools and tells you which repeated workflows should become reusable AI skills.
Intro to Claude Live Artifacts
A beginner-friendly guide to using Claude Live Artifacts in Cowork for persistent, refreshable dashboards.
Hypermessage
The cold message formula I use to get replies for job opportunities, warm intros, and high-value conversations, now packaged as a reusable Claude skill.
How to Setup Global Context for Claude (CLAUDE.md, USER.md)
Every Claude session starts blank unless you set this up. Here's how to build the global markdown files that give Claude full context before you type a single prompt.
How to Setup Claude Code (5-Min Guide for Non-Techies)
Claude Code isn't just a chatbot — it's an AI that does things. Here's how to get it set up in 5 minutes and see it in action with a real example.
How to Stop Hitting Claude Usage Limits (part 1)
Most people treat Claude like their only AI tool. That's the expensive mistake. Here's how to build a smarter stack for $60/month and stop burning tokens before Claude writes a single word.
How to Stop Hitting Claude Usage Limits (part 2)
Vague prompts lead to wrong answers. Wrong answers lead to follow-ups. Follow-ups stack on top of the full conversation. Here's how to prompt smarter and structure sessions so you stop paying Claude to re-read your own words.
How to Stop Hitting Claude Usage Limits (part 3)
There are features running in the background of every Claude session you probably never turned on intentionally. Here's what to turn off, and the Claude Code habits that make every session leaner.
InstaSights (IG Insights)
InstaSights helps you chat with your Instagram data in Claude so you can find high-performing hooks, spot patterns, and make better content decisions.
Caveman (Cut Token Usage)
Caveman is a Claude Code skill that forces concise replies, often cutting output tokens. Funny concept, real tradeoffs, practical for verbose workflows.
Humanizer
A practical guide to writing with AI without sounding like AI by combining /generate-ai-guide with /humanizer.
How to Create Your Own Custom Skill
A practical walkthrough for packaging repeatable instructions so Claude (and other tools) can follow your workflow every time—without re-pasting context.
Carousel Generator
How to connect Claude to Gamma and auto-generate branded carousels without touching a design tool.
What is a Skill?
Skills are the Claude feature nobody explains for non-developers. Here's what they actually are, why they're different from prompts and projects, and why they compound the more you use them.
Daily Briefing
How I use Claude as my morning executive assistant — connecting my calendar, email, tasks, and meeting notes so it tells me what to prioritize each day.
How to Create an AI Coach
Build a personal AI coach modeled after any expert using Claude Projects. Walk through a real example: a negotiation coach based on Chris Voss.
How to Setup Claude (10 Minute Setup Guide)
Most people use Claude like a smarter Google. This 10-minute setup changes that — global instructions, clarifying questions, skills, and app integrations that make every session work for you.