About this video
Most founders are drowning in generic tools when they should be building their own personal AI engine. This video breaks down my exact tech stack for personal software and how I use agentic coding to automate my entire content and research workflow. Key Takeaways: - Why Warp is the ultimate AI mission control for founders. - Turning manual workflows into repeatable AI 'skills'. - How Claude serves as a personal architect for agentic coding. - Using Notion as a centralised database for AI-generated research. - The importance of human intervention in the final output.
The death of generic SaaS is the only way for founders to reclaim their time.
Generic software is designed for the average user, but as a founder, your workflows are anything but average. Most CEOs are trapped in a cycle of 'tool sprawl' where they pay for dozens of subscriptions that only solve 80 percent of their problems. The future belongs to the individuals who build their own personal software.
The philosophy of personal 'skills'
The breakthrough moment in my workflow was realising that AI is a blank canvas. Instead of looking for a tool that fits, I started building 'skills' inside Claude and Warp. These are bespoke programmes designed to handle the repetitive tasks that used to drain my energy.
My personal tech stack
To achieve this level of automation, I use a specific set of tools that allow for high levels of customisation:
- Warp: This is more than just a terminal; it is my mission control. By using natural language prompts, I can manage servers and move files without memorising complex syntax.
- Claude and Agentic Coding: This is the backbone of my system. I use it to create specific skills, such as my 'postwriter' which takes a video link and generates a full week of social media content in my specific voice.
- Notion as a Database: While many prefer Obsidian for local notes, Notion acts as the collaborative database for my entire team. It is where my AI agents dump research and draft articles for my approval.
- Whisper Flow: This tool handles my dictation, correcting my spelling and formatting my thoughts on the fly.
Turning workflows into assets
The mistake most people make is looking for an AI tool to solve a problem they haven't defined yet. My philosophy is simple: identify a manual process you do every single week, perfect it, and then turn it into an AI skill.
I don't let AI write my emails or make my decisions. Instead, I use it to do the heavy lifting of research and formatting. It provides me with the drafts and the data so that I can provide the human intervention that actually matters.
Conclusion
If you are a founder still doing your own content formatting or manual research, you are a bottleneck in your own business. It is time to stop being a user and start being an architect of your own personal software.
Transcript▾
AI is inherently a blank canvas of opportunity and I think people are so overwhelmed with what can be done, they just kind of do not know where to start. A while ago, I recorded a video describing exactly how I use AI, all the different ways I use it, and I kind of scrapped the idea because I did not think the video was good enough. However, based on what I just told you, I think it would be good to do a monthly series of how I am using AI and just give you demonstrations of it. Obviously, I recorded this a little while ago. You will see old versions of Claude in here as well. And I have hair. So, enjoy this blast from the past for a second and hopefully next month I can pick up where we left off. Leave comments down below. Ask me any questions and I will make sure they make it into the next video. Anyway, enjoy.
Right, the first place I want to start, the mission control is Warp, which is an AI terminal. And the reason why I love this is because not only can I run terminal commands, such as changing directories or downloads, and do all the normal things like splitting my windows, I can also press slash agent or realistically, I can just type a natural language prompt to say, move this file to this location, and it will do that for me. The most complex thing I have ever done with Warp is when I had issues with servers and I would say, SSH into this server, give it an IP address, and it will actually SSH in and try and figure out what is going on and free up space on a Docker server. I really like Warp. I get so many referrals even though I do not earn anything from them. Multiple emails a day because people keep signing up for Warp through my referral link. You have got a file system here. You can just code like normal. If I go into agent here, I can actually change from a list of all of the models they have available including the reasoning details you can provide it.
They have got a voice feature which I do not use because actually under the hood they use the exact same technology. In fact, this is another AI tool that I use, which is Whisper Flow. So I can say a bunch of stuff here and it will interpret it. But it will do three things for me. It will format it. It will correct my spelling but also if I correct the spelling then it will remember that. If I let go here you will see that it has actually formatted it for me. Now I love all that. But saying that, Warp uses Whisper Flow under the hood.
But with all that being said, this is where I run Claude, which is my main way of doing agentic coding. Now, I do so much with Claude code, and you will see this pop up time and time again, but skills are the backbone to pretty much everything that I do in my video project, which I have Remotion set up in. If we go into here, I have got Command AI captions, which styles the captions of my Command AI podcast show so that the first few seconds have captions on. And we have identified the font, the colours, and things like that and condensed it into a style guide. And I have created a skill from that, which then I can create a bunch of tiles. And you can even see me mid work here. And here it is. It is even loaded here. So this is a Remotion project and you have got all of our captions here.
Another one that I do, and this is a very long process that took time to create this skill. Using the entire transcript as a reflection point, I create posts that discuss building personal apps, websites, coding challenges, coding teams, AI, and AI automation. The undertones inform those about Jupiter and Draft services. Jupiter and Draft is my company and I want to kind of tailor the conversation and what we talk about more towards that stuff. Then I pass in the topics which it gets from the description of the video. So there is just a list of topics and then I just say it should be in British English, start with a provocative statement, all of this stuff to kind of fine-tune the actual format of the post. So every week after I have added the timestamps to that YouTube video, I just run the postwriter skill and give it a link to that video and then it just runs through everything. It then schedules all of those posts throughout the week on LinkedIn and I just let it go.
The big one here is OpenClaw. Now this what you are seeing right now is actually me remotely controlling my MacBook that is set up over there. Now, I know I have made videos on MacBooks being overkill for OpenClaw, and they are from a price and power perspective. And also, I do not want people worrying that they have to go out and buy a new computer or a Mac Mini because it gives them any sort of extra superpower. Long story short, unless you are running local models, you do not really need a Mac Mini. I am mostly doing things proactively with OpenClaw like running things in the background while I have a meeting. If I have something coming up I will get it to do something before it is needed, like run something before I start work.
I have got Command AI articles. Now this helps format the articles. Notion is the backbone as well to a lot of the database stuff. Now, some people would prefer Obsidian. If all they need to do is work on their local machine and they are not working with external people, you should absolutely go with Obsidian. However, I need to share things with people. I need people to contribute to things. I am already in the Notion ecosystem that it makes sense that Notion is my fundamental database to so many things. So you will see here that we have got a title, we have got an introductory quote here, we have got a list of talking points, and then we have a link. This format is exactly what goes on behind the scenes when we are making a podcast. This is how I formatted it when I was preparing the notes for the podcast. I then turned that format into a skill.
This is really important: you should be turning existing processes and workflows that you know work into skills. I find that a lot of people are searching for skills for things they do not know they even need or do not know that even work for them and then they are left with something that just does not work. So that is my philosophy: what am I doing over and over again? How can I turn that into a skill? So that is exactly what I have done here. This means if I find a link or there is an article that we have found, I can literally just use this skill, text it on Telegram, say /commandai articles and then give it a link and it will take care of the rest for me and then that dumps it into this Notion database and then you have got all of these ready for Friday's stream.
The daily Command AI article research basically three times a day sends me a text with three articles that it has found that it thinks would be suitable for the show. I then respond through Telegram telling it what articles look good, if any, and then it uses the skill to actually put it into the Notion database. So, it is really, really handy. I just get a text asking if any of those look good, and I say yes or no. It is proactively creating and producing the show basically, but then also if I am on Twitter and I see a cool bit of news I can then just use the skill independently. I hope this gives you an idea of what I do and how you can use AI systems to help get your work done. As you saw, there is not a lot of writing or a lot of emails particularly. I do still believe the human element is important somewhere. There should definitely be human intervention with signing off and things. If I do need to write an email, I will only create a draft. It is mostly to get things done that I was already doing a lot quicker. So, I will leave it there. Like, subscribe if you haven't already. Until next time, keep on vibing.