Playbooks

Step-by-step builds. Pick one, set it up tonight, tell me what broke.

47 playbooks

PlaybookStarter14 min read

Check the Bill Before You Pay It

Compare every supplier bill to the price they sent, before the money leaves your account.

PlaybookAdvanced11 min read

Give Your Agents One Shared Memory

One agent saves it once. Every agent can answer from it.

PlaybookStarter9 min read

The Founder’s Personal AI Agent Kit

Stop briefing your AI from scratch. Give it context, boundaries, and two jobs worth remembering.

PlaybookIntermediate16 min read

Find Who to Contact. Know Why.

Set up Ego Lite and Claude Code to research your target companies and build a shortlist backed by buying signals.

PlaybookAdvanced11 min read

How to Configure AnythingMCP for Read-Only Access

Connect AI to company software without handing it the delete button.

PlaybookAdvanced25 min read

Put Your Ad Budget on Trial

Make your AI check the spending before you increase it.

PlaybookIntermediate15 min read

Put Your Inbox on Your Payroll

Give the busywork to AI. Keep the customer conversations.

PlaybookAdvanced16 min read

Claude Plans. Astra Builds. You Win.

One plans. The other challenges. Then they build and inspect.

PlaybookIntermediate21 min read

The Next Big Ad Space

Build your first ChatGPT ad around the questions customers ask before buying.

One new playbook every week, in your inbox.

PlaybookAdvanced10 min read

The Web Research Shortcut

Give Claude a scraper.

PlaybookAdvanced15 min read

Give Claude Gemini’s Eyes

Give Claude Code or Codex access to Gemini's video analysis, then turn the findings into work your team can use.

PlaybookAdvanced17 min read

The AI Blind Spot

Find out when AI names your competitors, then turn the evidence into a useful content fix.

PlaybookIntermediate13 min read

The Slop Cleanup Kit

Fix generic AI copy without erasing your voice.

PlaybookAdvanced12 min read

The SkillSpector Install Gate

Scan the skill before your AI reads a single instruction.

PlaybookIntermediate8 min read

The AI Harness Designer

A skill that decides what to install, and what to leave out.

PlaybookAdvanced13 min read

The Command Line for Everything

Give Claude, Codex and other agents a real interface to the software they could never reliably use.

PlaybookAdvanced18 min read

The Claude Content Studio

Six free repos that take a brief from research to finished video.

PlaybookIntermediate16 min read

The Overnight Competitor Brief

Claude watches your market while your laptop is closed.

PlaybookAdvanced15 min read

One Key, Every Tool

Stop buying subscriptions your agent uses twice a month.

Prompt packStarter15 min read

The Grok Intelligence Layer

Five prompts that turn live conversation into business decisions.

PlaybookIntermediate13 min read

The Claude Marketing Stack

Forty eight free playbooks, and the layer that makes them do the work.

PlaybookIntermediate8 min read

The Agent Reach Setup

Give your AI agent the live internet in one pasted sentence.

PlaybookAdvanced10 min read

The Claude Code Cost Loop

Every task you run in Claude Code burns your most expensive model by default, including the parts that don't need it. This is the full setup for splitting the job: your top model plans and reviews, a cheaper model executes. If you code, you'll have this running in fifteen minutes. If you don't, section 2 explains every term before it gets used.

PlaybookIntermediate14 min read

The Local FDE Playbook

Twenty automations you can sell to local businesses right now.

PlaybookAdvanced9 min read

PB-024: A free alternative to Manychat

ManyChat cut its free plan from a thousand contacts to twenty five, and the paid tiers scale with the number of people who trigger your automation, which means a reel that pops off raises your bill. OpenReply is the free open source version, built by a seventeen year old who got tired of paying. This is the full deploy in the order that actually works, the seven steps that fail silently if you miss them, and the one prompt that does the whole thing for you.

PlaybookAdvanced12 min read

OpenMontage Video Studio

Turn Your AI Coding Assistant Into a Full Video Production Team

Prompt packStarter12 min read

The Sam Altman Idea Evaluator

A YC Partner In Your Pocket

PlaybookIntermediate6 min read

The Claude + Higgsfield Ad Workflow

How to Run an Entire Ad Production Pipeline From One Prompt

GuideStarter5 min read

Whoop + Claude Health Analyst

Whoop data quantified

Prompt packStarter10 min read

The Operator's ChatGPT Prompt Book

100 Prompts, Organized By Workflow

PlaybookIntermediate5 min read

Claude Legal Plugin

Your AI Contract Reviewer

GuideStarter5 min read

The Forward Deployed Engineer

The Most Important Hire You Should Be Making

PlaybookStarter6 min read

Stress-Test Any Plan in 60 Seconds With Claude

One prompt, free open-source skill, no install required

GuideStarter4 min read

Android Becomes An Agent

Google's Gemini Intelligence Decoded

PlaybookIntermediate4 min read

3D Tour Build Guide

iPhone To Browser Link, 30 Minutes

PlaybookStarter8 min read

Personal Health Dashboard

Bloodwork Meets Claude

PlaybookIntermediate7 min read

Claude + NotebookLM

Your Personal 24/7 Research Analyst

PlaybookAdvanced5 min read

Free Local Claude Code

How developers run Claude Code 100% locally with Ollama

PlaybookIntermediate5 min read

Meta Ads With AI

Free Your Media Buyers

PlaybookStarter7 min read

Claude Live Artifacts Dashboard

Mission Control For Operators

PlaybookIntermediate7 min read

Claude Finance Agents

Your 5-Minute Setup Guide

Prompt packStarter12 min read

Claude Secret Prompt Codes

100 prompt-engineering shortcuts

PlaybookIntermediate5 min read

CHATGPT Image 2.0 Studio Setup

Beat The Slot Machine

PlaybookIntermediate7 min read

Manus Cloud Computer Guide

Always-On Agents, No Hosting Layer

GuideStarter6 min read

How to turn ChatGPT into your personal CFO

Personal Finance In Plain English

PlaybookIntermediate12 min read

How to Build a Second Brain

That Actually Gets Smarter Every Day

PlaybookStarter9 min read

How to Extract Any Expert's Knowledge Using AI

YouTube + NotebookLM, No Code

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