How we design, ship, and automate AI-native products. Working methods we use on real engagements, not theory.
I used AI to build an automated daily puzzle and a marketing machine around it. New puzzle at midnight, screenshot to five social networks at 08:00, reminder email at 06:00, stats dashboard refreshing itself. I went on holiday for a week. It kept shipping.
26 May 2026
A second mode for the daily word puzzle, and a fairer way to grade your solve.
09 May 2026
A 4x4 word puzzle where rows and columns both have to spell words. New one every day. Now living at its own home, tesserapuzzle.com.
28 April 2026
Specialists get compressed into agents. Generalists with taste, deployment scars, and a domain get compounded by them. Field notes on the role modern companies are quietly starting to need.
24 April 2026
Two AI content pipelines running at Sourceful. A Veo 3 video-ad workflow that replaced a production agency, and a six-agent OpenClaw system that researches, writes, publishes, and promotes blog posts end to end. Field notes, including the morning it trolled a supplier.
A few hours in Claude Design, a rebrand to roll out, and a reasonably honest review.
22 April 2026
Building a marketing site that serves four different audiences, welcomes AI crawlers, and prioritises accessibility from day one. Three weeks, two people, no agency.
22 January 2026
34 hours of actual work, 50+ production-ready components, and a story about where all that computational power actually comes from.
06 January 2026