I'm Rich — a business strategist with a decade in manufacturing, now learning AI by building real projects and documenting every step. The wins, the failures, all of it.
Real projects built with AI, documented start to finish. Each one is a bet that hands-on building beats theory every time.
Not tutorials. Not toy demos. Actual tools and systems built with Claude and other AI, solving real problems from manufacturing, data analysis, and content creation.
Every project is recorded on video and written up in the newsletter. You see the prompts, the failures, the "oh wait that actually works" moments. Nothing is hidden.
Claude is the co-pilot on every project. This isn't about replacing humans with AI — it's about figuring out what happens when a curious person and a capable AI work together.
Each project started as a question I couldn't answer. The AI helped me figure it out. Here's what came out the other side.
A weekly newsletter covering AI and robotics in manufacturing and small business — researched, written, and assembled with Claude as co-author. Each issue includes industry news, a hands-on experiment, and a transparent "How We Made This" section.
A RAG-powered system that reads manufacturing documents and answers questions in plain English. Built to show what happens when you combine domain expertise with AI engineering.
From messy manufacturing data to exec-ready insights — using AI to clean, analyze, and visualize operational metrics that actually matter.
Using AI to build the workflow that creates the newsletter. Meta? Yes. Useful? Extremely. A case study in AI-powered content operations.
Every pixel of this site was designed and coded in collaboration with Claude. Because that's the whole point — this project IS the proof that AI can help you build real things.
The design system, copy, code, and deployment pipeline were all built through conversation with Claude. I told it what I wanted, we iterated, and this is the result. The entire process is documented in the newsletter.