👋 Quick intro, and a real ask for the builders in here. I'm not here to sell AI agents or my time — honestly the opposite. I'm an operator. I run a publishing business (mostly children's books on Amazon, multiple pen names, three LLCs, high six figures($600k+ per year and climbing toward seven). I'm here to ask — because the people in this group know AI things I need, and I'd rather partner with someone good than figure it all out alone. Here's the goal: turn the whole operation into a machine I mostly just monitor. I look at the niche research the Ai agent has done then hand another agent the brief, and the system produces a genuinely good book, creates all visual assets+audiobook, runs the marketing etc. Here's where I'm at. ⬇️ 🛠️ WHAT I'VE ALREADY BUILT (and want to refine) I'm not starting from zero. These already run as skills in Claude Code: ▪️ Amazon niche research — I feed a raw keyword export into an agent and get back the market gaps, the complaints mined from competitor reviews, and a book concept. ▪️ PPC + ad automation — my bid rules, negation logic, and weekly cadence are written into skills the agent runs against fresh ad data. (This is the heart of the business — ads are ~80% of my costs.) ▪️ Listing SEO — title, subtitle, description, and backend keywords, built as a writer/editor agent loop. ▪️ Weekly review — pulls from my tools and tells me what actually moved. So I know how to build skills. I want to go much bigger. 👇 🚀 WHERE I WANT TO GO NEXT (this is where I need you) 1. Books that are actually GOOD — not AI slop. 📚 Produced at scale, across different niches. This is the hard part and the one I care about most. I want manuscripts readers genuinely rate, not the obvious AI junk flooding Amazon.(I'm thinking something like a agent loop/goal that has a writer and editor looped agent and feed it other best selling books so that it gets the style and format down, but irons out all the shitty AI language and quirks.) 2. Pro-level covers with AI. 🎨

🤖 AI companies: "Our models are getting smarter every month." 👨‍💼 Small business owners: "That's nice... but can they help me make decisions 71 hours faster?" The British Army just shared a remarkable AI milestone. Its ASGARD platform reduced complex operational planning from 72 hours to about 1 hour by helping leaders process massive amounts of information and make faster decisions. ⚡ Insight: Most businesses don't fight wars—but they do fight delays. Sales forecasts, inventory planning, staffing decisions, proposal writing, and customer support all slow down when information is scattered across emails, spreadsheets, and disconnected systems. Competitive advantage isn't just having AI. It's compressing decision cycles faster than your competitors. 📊 One metric that matters: The British Army reports AI reduced planning time from 72 hours to 1 hour while enabling commanders to engage 10× more targets per day by accelerating analysis and coordination. 🤝 Business lesson: AI's biggest ROI isn't replacing people—it's eliminating the time between knowing and doing. Every hour you remove from your decision-making process is an hour your competitors can't get back. Sources Business Insider. (2026, June 24). AI cut the UK's war planning cycle from 72 hours to just one, British Army's top general says. https://www.businessinsider.com/british-army-head-war-planning-cycle-asgard-cut-72-hours-2026-6 Forces News. (2026, June 23). Armies decide war's outcomes, head of British Army says in speech outlining future force. https://www.forces.net/services/army/armies-decide-wars-outcomes-head-british-army-says-speech-outlining-future-force

Tried both Cowork scheduling and Claude code routines (local and Remote) . Assigned some research tasks .Though it was a simple task it took me more time to decide then making workflows or Automations. Looking for Finale.

Finally, I have taken on this challenge. At the start, I was confused, so I reached out to @Muskan Ahlawat , who shared a video on how to set up Claude Code in Visual Studio Code. That video covered the free Claude Code setup with its limitations. I then implemented the process that Nate Herk mentioned in his video. The best concept from it was WAT (Workflows, Agents, Tools), which gave me a clear vision for building automations. Following that, I successfully implemented the newsletter. I now have the confidence that I can build workflows. Thank you for giving me this confidence, @Nate Herk and Muskan Ahlawat. I know this is not a perfect implementation, but it has given me the belief that I can keep going. Thank You!

I have a John Hopkins degree in AI, and I don´t really know how to use it in my profit, any ideas?