1 - What I built An automated newsletter on Modal: it researches the week's news with Claude + web_search, builds the HTML in SimpleVAD's brand identity, generates an AI editorial hero image (KIE/Nano Banana) based on the dominant topic, validates it, and sends it by email. All with cost safeguards and a weekly cron 2 - One thing I learned That image models can't be fully trusted with exact text/numbers (they still then to hallucinate there), but they're great for visuals. 3 - One thing I'd improve Deliverability - it landed in spam. Next iteration starts by setting up the domain's DKIM/DMARC before sending anything, since that moves the needle more than any code tweak. the image is in Spanish, because of course Jesus speaks Spanish, but the learning has no language :)

Let's get to know each other! Comment below sharing where you are in the world, a career goal you have, and something you like to do for fun. 😊

👋 New here — built & sold multiple companies, retired at 45, now all-in on AI I built and sold multiple businesses to multi-million-dollar success and retired at 45 — all without AI, just strategy and hard execution. Then my family and I sailed around the world (UK to New Zealand, 46 countries). The operator track record, in brief: → Scaled a specialist safety firm to multi-million-dollar revenue, 50+ staff, over 18 years — then sold it → Founded and ran an e-commerce business alongside it → Led state-level delivery for a global sporting event (national governments + organising committees) → Chaired my industry's trade association and helped write the British Standards still in use I know how to find clients, price on outcomes, build teams, run a P&L, and turn a messy idea into a system that makes money. What I'm here to master is the one tool I never had: AI. Two things I'm here for: → To share the operator playbook most builders are missing — finding clients, pricing on outcomes, systems, hiring, scaling. Ask me anything on that. → To find people to build with. I've got live commercial ventures and client projects that need serious AI work — lead-gen and sales-conversion engines, ops automation, and custom agents. I'm the operator and the principal: I bring the strategy, the clients and the budget. I'm looking for the people who can build it — full-time professionals and agencies who can own delivery end-to-end and point to real client outcomes, not tutorials. If that's you, comment below with what you've actually shipped for a client and I'll DM the ones who fit. And if you can build but stall on the business side — comment that too, that's exactly where I can help. 👇

AI is going to reshape or replace millions of jobs, but you don't have to switch careers or start a business to stay ahead of it. In this video I break down six AI skills that will futureproof your career no matter what job title you hold, from becoming the AI person on your team to knowing when a task doesn't even need AI. I also cover the last skill most people never think about, which is building your own unemployment insurance with multiple income streams.

I finished first day of the #AISChallenge. Thank you @Nate Herk again for putting this together