Finished the 7 Days AIS Challenge. 7 days, 7 builds, no filler

Day 1: Turned a research brief into a real newsletter draft, complete with AI-generated infographics, sitting in Gmail ready to send.

Day 2: Pointed Claude at old personal Gmail accounts via MCP and it surfaced ~25 real SME contacts from 2020 fiber-install records I'd forgotten existed. 363 contacts later, my outreach pipeline actually has substance.

Day 3: Built a real skills library, daily-briefing, task-triage, urgent-reminder, research-brief, meta-client-onboarding, all triggered by slash command or plain language.

Day 4: Shipped a real cloud automation. Anonymous pageview tracking on my site plus a weekly analytics email, running on Trigger.dev, no laptop required.

Day 5: Already had this one covered, my site's been live on Vercel since I started the challenge.

Day 6: Added a second scheduled task to the same pipeline. Every Monday it pulls real AI/automation news and drafts me 4 platform-specific post ideas (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok), grounded in actual sources, not generic filler.

Day 7: This whole setup already was my executive assistant, context files, memory, a growing skills library, real tool integrations (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, CRM, WhatsApp).

Hardest part: reworking a Supabase client mid-deploy because its Realtime layer needed a WebSocket API my build container didn't have. Small thing, but it's the kind of gap you only find by actually shipping, not by reading docs.

What's next: less building, more selling. First paying client is the real milestone now.

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Finished the 7 Days AIS Challenge. 7 days, 7 builds, no filler