I think the promise of AI is to handle the work flows that maybe you don’t have time for. Or, maybe something that’s slightly out of your realm of expertise.
I read an article the other day that had this quote:
I keep waiting for someone to walk into my office and tell me what problems I should be solving with AI. Nobody’s come. (link)
This mind set, in my opinion, is fundamentally incorrect. If you are looking for problems to solve there are a vast number of them and you’ll be drowned in possibility. For me, AI has always been about gaining efficiency or adding capability.
If you haven’t noticed, I have a lot of side projects. I hope some day one of them hits the jackpot and allows me to retire to an island with all my family and friends. It’s unlikely, but hey, I’m allowed to dream.
I realized long ago that I’m not great at marketing. I don’t understand lead generation, i’m not super amazing at SEO (so i built a tool for it https://seoscoreapi.com), I’m not in the least bit artistic (that went to my brother (https://mrbenny.co). But what I am good at is problem solving and process creation.
I’ve been working on a concept of second brain for a while but I realized even a second brain needs to have tools. I started thinking about how to manage all of my side projects and how to interface with them through my preferred platform of Slack. (Sponsor me?).
I’ve come up with a business development agent that can handle the things that I don’t particularly specialize in. On the backbone of Claude Sonnet 4.6, I created an API Gateway that takes input from my Slack instance and can handle a variety of tasks.
- SEO – Using my SeoScoreAPI it can handle generating SEO reports
- Lead Generation – Using a variety of 3rd party API’s I have it looking for businesses that don’t have websites so I can pitch them some design services. Or, if their SEO is bad I can assist in fixing it
- Lead nurturing – From the above leads, i get reminded that “Hey – you should connect with this person”
- AWS Monitoring – It has read access into my AWS organization’s bills so that It can tell me if i’m over spending or just give me weekly overviews
- WordPress MCP – Each of my managed WordPress instances has the MCP connected to it with read access so that if any of the sites have plugin upgrades, connectivity issues, errors or anything else I can quickly resolve them
The result of this is quite simple, I’ve added another “worker” to my organization that can help me grow. These aren’t necessarily problems I was having. They are simply areas of work that I struggle with and, they have become easier now thanks to AI.
If you think this concept is cool, I’ll be setting up a Terraform module soon over at https://aiopscrew.com
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