The Daily Brief
LiveA self-curated daily audio brief — the day's threads pulled together into one short episode. Play the latest, or scroll the archive of past briefs.
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A self-curated daily audio brief — the day's threads pulled together into one short episode. Play the latest, or scroll the archive of past briefs.
Listen to the briefA study app for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam (AIF-C01). Drill a 93-question bank with spaced repetition, sit timed mock exams, track every blueprint objective, and listen to a short podcast on each domain. Installs to your phone and works offline.
Start studyingA 13-week rolling cash forecast for owner-operators. CSV in, scenarios out. Clean-room rebuild — simplified, free, no proprietary templates.
In developmentBuild a lender-ready SBA 7(a) acquisition package: edit the business plan in the browser, and generate a branded Word doc plus a zip of pre-filled SBA/IRS forms, document folders, and a checklist. Missing items flag in red until they're done.
Open the builderThe daily scoreboard a real HVAC and plumbing shop runs on: the Wall, the Game, the Goal, revenue pace, and profit drilled down to the individual job. Real numbers, anonymized shop — a live month, frozen and disconnected, so you can see how The Game actually works.
Open the boardA five-part tutorial series: from installing Claude Code through building a QuickBooks Online middleware app, plus the harness and memory habits that make it all click.
Open the seriesThe same middleware exercise for shops that do not run QuickBooks: you build it against Contractors Cloud, a construction CRM, through its REST API. Take this one or the QuickBooks one.
Open the exerciseWhat breaks along the way — Plaid vs. Teller, bank reconciliation, Apps Script edge cases, the gap between API docs and API reality.
First post incomingSide-by-side AI bake-offs — same brief, two contestants. First entry: Claude vs. Codex on EAA Chapter 1343, with verdict and strategy memo.
See the bake-offA whitepaper for ISI proposing a trades-focused AI consulting practice — market analysis, SWOT, the Game as the foundational tool, and a three-step launch plan.
Read the proposal