Email is where a small company's outside world arrives — and it sits scattered across inboxes no agent can read. We built the fix in one afternoon: a $0 Gmail collector, three accounts, every mail landing as a plain file. Here's the recipe, plus three decision rules — including when not to build.
Years of SME office work taught us why most automation attempts die: people try to automate the report before the data can be reached. The real first step is boring and powerful — pull your scattered work data into one place your agent can read. Here's the three-layer map and the prompt to start tonight.
Eighteen recipes, most of them cooked on Claude — and we're genuinely debating whether to cancel that subscription and move to Codex. Top-model economics on one side, built-in image generation on the other. Here's our honest math, the one move that keeps the choice reversible, and a real question: what would you do?
The wow moment doesn't arrive when your little app works — it arrives when it loads on a phone that isn't yours. Here's the free, ten-minute path from 'it runs on my computer' to a real URL anyone can open, with a live example we deployed while writing this.
Remote Control has quietly become one of our most-used Claude Code features: the session keeps running on your machine at home, and your phone becomes the steering wheel. Here's the setup, the honest limits, and the strange little thrill of shipping a fix from a park bench.
The beginner mistake with MCP isn't installing too little — it's installing a dozen servers and wondering why the agent got slower and dumber. Here's the starter pantry: the three servers this kitchen actually runs every day, what each one earns, and what we deliberately left out.
We spent our first weeks saying API when we meant MCP, and our agent politely built the wrong thing. Here's the kitchen-terms explanation that finally stuck — an API is another kitchen's order counter, MCP hands your agent the appliances — plus a ten-minute exercise that makes the difference physical.
We used to paste HTML into chat and explain where the login button was, like giving directions to a blindfolded driver. Playwright MCP ends that: your agent gets its own browser — it sees pages, clicks, types, and logs in. Here's the setup, the real workflow from office automation, and the safety rules.