Hi, I'm Rich.
Two decades in business strategy and consulting across manufacturing, electronics, and healthcare. I've sat on boards, led international expansion, built pricing models, and run cross-functional analytics teams. The work has always been about making complex operations make sense.
When AI tools started getting genuinely useful — not toy-demo useful but changes-how-work-gets-done useful — I decided to learn by doing. Not courses. Not certifications. Building.
Short Circuit is the result. Every project starts as something I don't know how to do. I sit down with Claude, Anthropic's AI, and figure it out. The whole process is documented — the prompts, the iterations, the failures, the fixes. Then I write it up in the newsletter and put it on video.
One person, one AI, real projects, no faking it.
If you're curious about what AI can actually do in practice — this is built for you. The newsletter covers AI and robotics in manufacturing and small business. The projects cover whatever I'm curious enough to build next.
