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• Claude Masterclass Section 1: AI Fundamentals & AI Fluency The opening session of the Claude Masterclass. It covers what these models actually are, how they behave, and the habits that separate people who get... 28 min video
• Claude Masterclass Section 2: Claude Intro The 2nd session of the Claude Masterclass. A deep dive into Claude itself: the model family, what sets it apart from other AI tools, and the built-in... 33 min video
• Claude Masterclass Section 3: Automation Overview The 3rd session of the Claude Masterclass. It moves from using Claude in a chat window to wiring it into your actual workflows: connecting tools... 12 min video
• Claude Masterclass Section 4: Automation Examples The 4th session of the Claude Masterclass. It moves from wiring Claude into your workflows to putting automation to work: Claude in Chrome, which lets... 9 min video
• Claude for Marketing Episode 0: Start here I set up Claude Code with no code, install the free marketing kit and turn one plain paragraph into a marketing brief, once for my practice and once... 7 min video
• Claude for Marketing Episode 1: Find leads where nobody looks Claude Code builds a lead list from free public records, once for my practice and once for a stand-in pool and spa company, and nobody on either list... 10 min video
• The 40-Minute Inbox Setup The Claude build The Claude build. Seven steps. About 40 minutes start to finish. You can stop after any one of them and still be better off than you were. 5 min read
• The 40-Minute Inbox Setup The ChatGPT build The ChatGPT build. Seven steps. About 40 minutes start to finish. You can stop after any one of them and still be better off than you were. 6 min read
• Prompts and writing 5 prompts to check invoices before they double up 5 prompts to check your invoices before they double up. One Housecall Pro reviewer on Trustpilot wrote that separating the invoices from the customer... 2 min read
• Running a business 5 questions to ask your Housecall Pro account 5 questions to ask your Housecall Pro account instead of hunting through screens. One Housecall Pro reviewer on Trustpilot wrote: "seperating the... 2 min read
• Gemini, Copilot and more Which Copilot do you have? The one-page chart If Copilot at work doesn't look like the one in the videos, check your label first. Microsoft puts a label under your name on the Microsoft 365 home... 2 min read
• Prompts and writing The one-line reply (and the 2-line summary prompt) You asked a coworker a question and got a wall of pasted AI back. Don't read all of it. Ask for their call. 1 min read
• Gemini, Copilot and more Split the jobs: what goes in a Gemini skill Split the jobs: what goes in a Gemini skill, and what doesn't. Gemini skills save your instructions so you don't retype them. Google's skills page... 2 min read
• Prompts and writing The 2-question reply (and the assumptions prompt) Your boss forwarded you an AI answer as the brief. Before you spend a day decoding it, send 2 questions and ask for the prompt. 1 min read
• Gemini, Copilot and more Siri is keeping receipts: the 3 settings to check iOS 27 gave Siri its own app, and it keeps your conversations. Apple says the Siri app "uses iCloud to privately sync conversational history across a... 1 min read
• Safety and privacy The safe setup for email-triggered AI tasks If an AI acts on your email, anyone who can email you can put words in front of it. Here's how I'd set it up so a stranger's email can't make it do... 2 min read
• Gemini, Copilot and more The checklist for sharing a Gemini Notebook Sharing a Gemini Notebook with a client: the checklist. A Gemini Notebook is a handy way to give a client, a contractor or a new hire a Q&A over your... 2 min read
• Prompts and writing The 3-sentence answer template A coworker asked you a question. Send 3 sentences you've read, not the chatbot's whole answer. 1 min read
• Prompts and writing The one-line prompt for a clean .md file ChatGPT and Claude write their answers in Markdown. Paste that raw text into a Google Doc and you get # marks, ** stars and tables made of | pipes. (In... 1 min read
• Prompts and writing The 3-line brief: so your AI stops waiting on you Anthropic measured its own staff (report of 16 October 2026): in interactive, multi-turn sessions, "Claude sessions amount to around 80% idly waiting... 1 min read
• Prompts and writing AI;DR: 3 habits for AI-assisted messages AI;DR: the 3-habit checklist for AI-assisted messages. AI;DR means "AI, didn't read". It works like TL;DR, for messages that look like raw AI output... 1 min read
• Prompts and writing Which messages are worth running past AI The 3-question check: which messages are worth running past AI. Most of what you write at work doesn't need a second opinion from ChatGPT or Copilot... 1 min read
• ChatGPT Lock chat in ChatGPT: what it hides and doesn't Lock chat in ChatGPT: what it hides and what it doesn't. ChatGPT can now lock a chat behind a 4-digit account PIN. OpenAI's help page says locked chats... 1 min read
• ChatGPT Let ChatGPT copy your writing style and test it Let ChatGPT copy your writing style, then test it properly. ChatGPT has a setting called Reference my writing style. When I switched it on, ChatGPT... 2 min read
• Claude Code Sign in to Claude Code with your company's plan Got Claude at work? How to sign in to Claude Code with your company's plan. If your company pays for Claude Team, you already have Claude Code... 1 min read
• Safety and privacy The 20-second PDF redaction test The 20-second redaction test: before you send a PDF. A black box drawn over a number in a PDF hides it from your eyes, not from the file. Syncfusion's... 1 min read
• ChatGPT Ask ChatGPT for a tool: 3 prompts for work Ask ChatGPT for a tool, not an answer: 3 prompts for work. Since 7 October, OpenAI's release notes say ChatGPT can answer with "tools you can use... 2 min read
• ChatGPT The monthly ChatGPT file clean-up ChatGPT saves the files you upload to Library on its own: "ChatGPT automatically saves uploaded and created files, including files uploaded in chats"... 1 min read
• Claude Code Run Claude Code on a free model on your Mac Claude Code is the harness: it reads your files, runs commands and asks before it changes anything. The model behind it can be swapped. On 20 Oct 2026... 3 min read
• Claude The Claude memory checklist: 7 checks The Claude memory checklist: 7 checks on what it keeps about you. Deleting a Claude chat doesn't delete what Claude remembered from it. Anthropic's... 4 min read
• Claude Code 5 Claude Code jobs for people who don't code 5 Claude Code jobs for people who don't code: the prompts. Claude Code is Claude working on your computer, so it can open, rename, move and change your... 5 min read
• Claude Weekly update: 7 Claude prompts Weekly update: 7 Claude prompts so you stop writing it from scratch. Keep a running note of what you did, paste it into Claude, and these 7 prompts... 4 min read
• Claude Code Claude Code auto mode: check, switch and block Claude Code auto mode: check your mode, switch it, and block what you never want run. New Claude Code sessions now start in auto mode, where a second... 5 min read
• Claude Your first Claude skill Your first Claude skill: turn the instructions you keep pasting into one. A skill is a saved set of instructions Claude loads when that job comes up... 5 min read
• Claude Any report on 1 page: 7 Claude prompts Any report on 1 page: 7 Claude prompts for long reports. Upload the PDF, and these 7 prompts pull out the numbers that matter with the page each one... 4 min read
• Claude Code 8 Claude Code mods and how to install them 8 Claude Code mods: what each one does and how to install it. A mod is a plugin that changes how Claude Code looks and behaves. These are the install... 6 min read
• Claude Review season: 7 Claude prompts Review season: 7 Claude prompts before your performance review. Paste in your notes from the year and the things you shipped, and these 7 prompts find... 4 min read
• Claude 3 jobs Claude runs while your laptop's closed Scheduled tasks: 3 jobs Claude runs while your laptop's closed. A scheduled task is a job you describe once, and Claude runs it hourly, daily, weekly... 5 min read
• Prompts and writing Split the job: 5 prompts that use subagents Split the job: 5 Claude Code prompts that send work to subagents. A subagent is a helper Claude sends off to do one part of a job in its own separate... 5 min read
• Prompts and writing After every meeting: 7 prompts for your notes After every meeting: 7 Claude prompts for your notes. Paste your messy notes or the transcript into Claude after a meeting, and these 7 prompts turn it... 4 min read
• Prompts and writing The CEO Office: 4 prompts and the Company Brain The CEO Office: 4 prompts and the Company Brain template. The CEO Office is a chief of staff system in Claude. It does 4 jobs: a morning brief, a... 4 min read
• Claude Code Run /doctor before you blame the model Claude Code acting up? Run /doctor before you blame the model. /doctor is a checkup of your Claude Code setup. It finds leftover installs, out-of-date... 2 min read
• Claude Code Stop typing "keep going": give Claude Code a /goal A goal is a finish line. You set it once, and Claude keeps working toward it without you prompting each step. After every turn, a separate model checks... 2 min read
• Claude Code 6 Claude Code keys that save you retyping 6 Claude Code keys that save you retyping, waiting and starting over. Each of these is one key or one short command. They get a cleared prompt back... 4 min read
• Claude Claude inside Sheets, Word, Excel and Slides Claude inside the apps you already use: Sheets, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Slides. Claude now works inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and inside... 8 min read
• Claude What changed in Claude (and what to do) What changed in Claude: which model to use when, and how to check a file Claude made. Two recent changes, and what to do about each: 3 min read
• Claude 7 Claude prompts to prepare for a hard talk Paste any of these into Claude or ChatGPT. Swap the words in [brackets] for your own. I need to talk to [person] about [issue]. Before I figure out... 1 min read
• Claude 7 Claude prompts for emails that get a reply Paste any of these into Claude or ChatGPT. Swap the words in [brackets] for your own. Here's my draft: [paste]. Rewrite it so the one thing I need is... 1 min read
• Claude 7 Claude prompts for any spreadsheet Paste any of these into Claude or ChatGPT. Swap the words in [brackets] for your own. Upload the spreadsheet first. 1 min read
• Claude 7 Claude prompts to learn any work skill faster Paste any of these into Claude or ChatGPT. Swap the words in [brackets] for your own. Each one makes the AI check what you already know before it... 1 min read
• Setups and tools How to tell warmup from a real problem I found emails in my Sent folder to a stranger, about meeting in San Francisco, ending in a random code. It wasn't a hack. It was warmup. 1 min read
• Claude Code Clean up your CLAUDE.md: the six steps CLAUDE.md is the file Claude Code reads before it starts working for you. With older models you had to spell everything out, so most of us built long... 1 min read
• Setups and tools Settings that stopped my AI bots burning tokens The settings that stopped my AI bots burning tokens. Every message to an AI resends the whole chat plus its setup. These are the settings that kept... 1 min read
• Setups and tools My AI team: the setup This is how I run my business with seven AI bots that draft everything and send nothing without me. Copy the parts you need. Start small. 2 min read
• Running a business The number rules I gave my AI receptionist The text said $9,950. The voice read it as "nine dollars ninety-five cents". The fix is to never let a voice agent say numbers as digits. 1 min read
• Setups and tools Jev: the AI model that sorts instead of writes Jev came out in September from TypeSafe AI. One of its founders worked on ChatGPT at OpenAI. It doesn't write text. You give it some text and a... 1 min read
• Claude Code Five Claude Code skills worth installing Skill vs MCP. An MCP connects Claude to a tool or your data: your calendar, a database, a browser. A skill is a set of instructions that teaches Claude... 2 min read
• Safety and privacy Checklist before changing a shared login Checklist before changing a shared login in your automations. I updated one saved login in n8n and two automations broke: my lead ads and my Instagram... 1 min read
• Safety and privacy The secret scanner I run before AI memory The secret scanner I run before anything goes into AI memory. I almost loaded 8 passwords and tokens into a memory all my bots can read. Now every note... 1 min read
• Setups and tools Help someone with their phone from a screenshot When a parent or friend is stuck, they send a screenshot and a question. AI gives one plain next step and circles what to tap. Works in ChatGPT or Claude. 1 min read
• Setups and tools Check an AI skill before you install it A skill runs with the same access you gave Claude. If Claude can see your client folders or API keys, a bad skill can tell it to read them. So check it... 1 min read
• Safety and privacy My block list for AI that acts without asking My block list for AI that runs commands without asking. My bots run overnight, so they don't wait for approval. Instead they're blocked from a short... 1 min read
• Running a business Get your business texting campaign approved Checklist for getting a business texting campaign approved. Twilio rejected mine three times with error 30909 and never said which part was wrong. The... 1 min read
• ChatGPT Run AI tools on your ChatGPT plan, no API key Run AI tools on your ChatGPT plan instead of an API key. OpenAI's Codex tools let you sign in with your ChatGPT account. Some other apps can reuse that... 1 min read
• Setups and tools My checklist for a setting that won't stick 478 memory saves failed because one leftover line at the bottom of a settings file overrode the correct setting above it. When a change doesn't seem to... 1 min read
• Safety and privacy Is AI safe for my office? AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude can save your team hours a week, but there are real privacy and security points to understand first. Here are the... 1 min read
• Setups and tools How my AI night shift is set up While I sleep, my AI bots run scheduled jobs. One night (24 Sep, 9 PM to 9:30 AM) they finished 39 runs. 1 min read
• Claude Code Set up a Claude Code scheduled task that runs How to set up a Claude Code scheduled task that actually runs. My hourly Claude Code monitor ran for days and did nothing. It was set to refuse... 1 min read
• Setups and tools One memory for all my AI My AI bots and Claude Code read and write the same memory bank. What one learns, the others know next time, so I stopped explaining the same setup... 1 min read
• Running a business Get a second opinion on a car repair quote Before you pay a repair estimate, have AI sort every line into "needed now" and "can wait", with a question for the shop on each. Works in ChatGPT or... 1 min read
• Setups and tools Turn paper mail into a to-do list Photograph each letter when it arrives. AI reads them and gives you a dated to-do list and a calendar file. Works in ChatGPT or Claude. 1 min read
• Setups and tools The router that runs one local AI model at a time Two big local models fight over one Mac's memory. My fix is a small router that apps talk to instead of the model. 1 min read
• Running a business Leads from license lists: the process Every state publishes who holds a business license. It's public, it's current, and it covers niches that bought lead lists handle badly. The lead... 1 min read
• Running a business Your lead system is texting landlines If your missed-call system texts every caller, some of those callers are on landlines. The message gets accepted, your logs record a success, and... 1 min read
• ChatGPT What ChatGPT knows about you, and where to see it It all comes from four places, and you can check every one. Settings, then Personalization, then Manage memories. That's the actual list. Delete... 1 min read
• Setups and tools Job site photos in, homeowner update out Your crew texts photos from the job. AI checks them against a checklist for that job type and writes the homeowner update, mentioning only what the... 1 min read
• ChatGPT On-brand carousel images with your ChatGPT plan Make on-brand carousel images with your ChatGPT plan. Every illustration in my carousels came from gpt-image-2 on my regular ChatGPT subscription. No... 1 min read
• ChatGPT Make ChatGPT stop sounding like AI Two prompts, set once, and every draft comes back sounding like a person. In ChatGPT, click New project and call it "Humanizer". Anything in its... 1 min read
• Setups and tools Build a maintenance calendar for your house Photograph the label on each appliance. AI reads the model numbers and builds a 12-month service calendar. Works in ChatGPT or Claude with web search on. 1 min read
• Setups and tools How my AI bots hand work to each other I asked my chief bot to give my tech bot a job: check the Mac's free disk space. The tech bot picked it up and finished in 9 seconds. 1 min read
• Setups and tools How to check what's eating your Mac's memory My local AI was crawling with 1.3 GB free. The cause was an app renting my graphics card to run other people's AI, holding 45.6 GB. Here's how to find... 1 min read
• Running a business Automation says success but isn't working When your automation says success but isn't working. My Instagram comment-to-DM funnel (comment a keyword, get a DM with a button, tap it, get the... 1 min read
• Running a business The five free tools I run my business on I'm a solo operator, so I automate a lot. These five do most of that work, and every one of them is free to start. 1 min read
• Setups and tools My filming setup checklist I filmed 25 reels in one session and could use 7. The other 18 had eye drift: I was looking just beside the lens. Across 4,684 measured frames, 90.8%... 1 min read
• Claude Code Claude Code effort levels: the cheat sheet Type /effort in Claude Code. Claude Academy puts it simply: effort tells your model how many resources to spend on a task, and it does not change what... 1 min read
• Claude Code Claude Code edits my reels: the setup I film one take on my phone and Claude Code turns it into a finished vertical reel, with captions on every word, real screen recordings, music and... 2 min read
• Setups and tools Voice-chat your AI on Discord, saved to Telegram Talk to your AI by voice on Discord, saved to Telegram. My main AI assistant sits in a private Discord server. I join the voice channel on my phone... 1 min read
• Prompts and writing The prompt to run before any big business decision Use it before you hire, buy equipment, change prices or drop a service. Works in ChatGPT or Claude. 1 min read
• Running a business Find every auto-renewal in your contracts Upload your contracts and let AI find the renewal terms, the fees, and the last day to cancel, with the exact sentence as proof. Works in Claude or... 1 min read
• Claude Code Stop Claude Code writing essays This is Claude Code, the one in your terminal, not the Claude app. /output-style concise. Or run /config and pick Output style. 1 min read
• ChatGPT Five secret codes for ChatGPT These aren't settings. They're keywords you type before your prompt, and ChatGPT changes how it answers. That's also why you can make up your own. 1 min read
• Setups and tools The check I run after updating scheduled posts I pushed 147 updated posts to my scheduler. Every one still had the old images, because the upload step remembered files by name and all my carousels... 1 min read
• Running a business Cold email that lands: my verification rules My lists passed a "verified" check and still bounced 7 to 12%. Above about 5%, a new sending domain starts losing its reputation. Here's what I found... 1 min read
• Setups and tools Build an AI board of advisors Before a big decision, give five AI advisors one job each, let them argue, then have a chair write the call. Works in Claude or ChatGPT. 1 min read
• Running a business My checklist before any cold email goes live Three steps of a live campaign sent blank emails because I updated them with plain text and line breaks. The tool dropped every word and said success. 1 min read
• Running a business What to automate first List the jobs you do every week, and four questions sort them into automate, assist or keep. Try the free tool... 1 min read
• Setups and tools AnyDoc: any document into clean text AnyDoc is free and open source, from the team behind Firecrawl: https://github.com/firecrawl/anydoc 1 min read
• Prompts and writing Test your message on 50 AI customers first Before a real prospect sees your cold email, ad or offer, have Claude play 50 different customers and read every version blind. Works in Claude or ChatGPT. 1 min read
• Claude Compare contractor quotes with Claude Three quotes for the same job rarely price the same work. This lines them up row by row so you can see what each one leaves out. Works in Claude or... 1 min read
• Setups and tools Host your website on Amazon S3 for pennies My site, stephenthorn.com, cost $0.58 to host from March to September 2026. That covers S3, CloudFront and the small Lambda behind my contact form. The... 2 min read

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