Hey everyone! Here's my submission: https://fuellab.sharpr.cloud/newsletter/issue-001.html Quick intro: I'm a software engineer, Level 3 PT and Level 4 Advanced Sports Nutritionist, HYROX racer, half marathon runner, and getting ready for my first Ironman next year. You also saw my recent winning post on the community a few weeks ago: https://www.skool.com/ai-automation-society/community-wins-recap-apr-25-may-1?p=2b0f460e So when I started looking at what to build for Day 1 of Nate's 7-day challenge, the project that picked itself was tied to the thing I'm actually trying to launch on Skool — a fitness nutrition community for athletes and busy people who train hard. https://www.skool.com/test-community-3892 Why this was the right project to start with Soft launch is close. To get there I needed a landing page, an email list, a video sales letter on that page, the legal pages every site needs, and a way to actually publish weekly content without burning a full day every Wednesday. Nate's Day 1 brief said "build a newsletter automation." I figured I'd kill a flock of birds with one stone — newsletter pipeline, landing page, subscriber capture, VSL, and the legal footer, all in one connected system, all in one session. The stack I'd been wanting to try Claude Design for a while, so the landing page got built there first — pure React + Tailwind, no build step, the hand-drawn-coach aesthetic I'd been carrying around in my head for months. That gave me a real surface to attach the newsletter to. For the video sales letter, I used HeyGen — recorded one solid take, let it handle the avatar lipsync and the cleanup. The footage embedded straight into the landing page hero. Saved a half-day of trying to film myself in a quiet room. For the Privacy and Terms pages — every site needs them, nobody enjoys writing them — I just asked Claude. It produced two real, brand-appropriate pages that hold up. Five minutes from "we need legal pages" to "legal pages are live."

Day 2 of the 7 day challenge. Claude Code and MCPs are already my daily drivers, so neither of those was new tonight. The new piece was Firecrawl, and to explain why it landed the way it did, I want to walk through the side of my world that has been heavy on scraping since the end of last year. A business I run called CreatorsForge (https://creatorsforge.co). CreatorsForge is a Shadow Operator setup. I find Instagram creators who have built real, engaged audiences but who have no monetisation in place. No products, no offers, no funnel. I partner with them on a revenue share. They keep posting, and behind the scenes I build the entire business under their name. Their brand is the front. My operation is invisible. The AI involvement is different at each price tier. - For low-ticket, Claude generates the digital product itself; the creator advertises it to their followers, who buy on my platform, and the whole thing rides on a 14-day launch strategy my Claude agents put together. - For mid-ticket and high-ticket, the creator records everything themselves. They are the expert in their niche, I am not, and that's the whole point. The videos and the 1:1 coaching live on my platform; my job is the launch strategy and the infrastructure, not the content. None of this works without knowing two things cold. The creator's audience: where they hang out, what they actually want, what language they use. And the creator themselves: how they talk, how they phrase things, the cadence of their voice. Because every digital product Claude generates has to sound like the creator wrote it, not like a generic AI did. For both of those jobs, since early this year, I've leaned on Apify. I use one Apify actor to find the right kind of creator: around 10,000 Instagram followers, strong engagement, comments full of buying intent and no link in bio. Once we're working together, two more actors do the heavy lifting. One pulls every Reel and Post the creator has ever published and extracts the transcript captions, which feed a Claude agent that builds a voice DNA file: vocabulary, cadence, recurring phrases, the way they open and close. The other scrapes the comment threads at scale, and a different Claude agent clusters the pain points and surfaces the audience's actual language. Voice DNA on one side, audience pain language on the other. Both feed the product design and the launch copy, which is how a low-ticket digital product can plausibly read like the creator wrote it themselves.

If you've been feeling overwhelmed by the constant stream of new AI tools, this video is my full breakdown of the stack I actually use day to day, ranked into a tier list. I cover what's earned a spot as a daily driver, what I've graduated from, and why a lean stack always wins. I also share the mindset shifts and decision framework I use to stay focused so new releases stop pulling me off my path.

From AI roles and first clients to live receptionist systems and enterprise training deals - this week inside AIS+ showed what happens when builders stop watching and start executing. 🚀 Standout Wins of the Week inside AIS+ 👉 @Griffin Maklansky went from being laid off to landing an AI Workflow Builder role in just 1 month. 👉 @Ahmed Bin Faisal landed another $2,000 USD client — an interior design firm — and broke down exactly what led to the close 👉 @Narsis Amin built a working AI restaurant receptionist handling bookings, availability, and CRM logging end-to-end. 👉 @Josh Holladay closed a $4.5K (+$1K) client with half up front today — and dropped his top 10 lessons from the close 👉 @Dion Wang received his first official testimonial, validating real client impact and around 40 hours/month saved. 🎥 Super Win Spotlight | @Duy Nguyen Duy started as an engineer who was curious about AI — but unsure how to turn that curiosity into something real. After joining AIS+, he went from learning passively to building his own AI-operated business, Sharper Automations. Since then, he has: • Built a 24-agent AI business operating system • Landed 2 local paying clients through word-of-mouth • Created a system that improves itself weekly through feedback loops • Started moving toward his goal of leaving his corporate job His biggest shift? From “Can I really do this?” → to building a real business around AI automation.

Massive congrats to the first-ever class of 7-Day AIS Challenge graduates! These builders showed up, put in the work, and shipped 7 builds in 7 days, from beginner foundations all the way through advanced territory. April 2026 Graduates: 🎓 Antra Verma 🎓 Darshan Patel 🎓 Grant G. 🎓 Takumi Nozawa Finishing the challenge isn't easy. It means watching the lessons, doing the actual builds, hitting every checkpoint, and submitting a capstone that proves you can put it all together. These four did exactly that. If you've been on the fence about starting the challenge, let this be your sign. 7 days, 7 builds, zero fluff. You can move at your own pace, but the structure is there to take you from day-one beginner to advanced builder by the end. Huge respect to our April grads. Can't wait to see who joins the Graduates wall in May. 🚀 Cheers, Nate #AISChallenge