I export my own AI usage every week and let a script tear it apart. Here’s exactly where the money, the tokens, and the hours went — no rounding, no hiding.
Building in Public: The Free Quick Audit Pipeline — From Order to 15-Page Audit to Discovery Call
We made Quick Audits free across every Spotlight vertical, then built an AI pipeline that runs each one at max effort and books qualified owners into a 15-minute call. Here is the entire system, published per our building-in-public principle.
How Our Skill Packs Learned to Update Themselves
The write-back half of recursive self-improvement: every agent run files what it learned, a harvester merges it into the source skills, and the packs + live directory republish daily — login-free. Built July 18, 2026; caught two real pipeline defects on its first pass.
How to Inventory a YouTube Channel
Learn how to create a structured YouTube channel inventory that catalogs every video with speaker data, Google rankings, view counts, and word counts.
How I Closed the Skill-Pack Gap My Own Agent Flagged
A weekly agent flagged two hub pages with no download or dated badge. Here is how I linked the real 239-skill zip and made the loop self-maintaining.
How We Built eliasbartu.com: From Domain-For-Sale Page to Personal Brand Site in One Session
Yesterday eliasbartu.com was a domain-for-sale page. Today it is the live personal brand site of the videographer behind the Marketing Mechanic whiteboards — with the placeholder-schema teardown and Google Photos harvest documented for the next agent.
Anatomy of a Smear Campaign: Fact-Check the Attacker, Not the Attack
When a friend sends you a hit piece and asks if it is true, run six forensic checks instead of explaining yourself: a real case study of a 48-hour-old burner account, an AI-generated face, and three dead sources — the EEAT test every anonymous attacker fails.
How We Finished the Sloan Appliance Feature — Verified, Sourced, and Live
Two checks before we publish any client feature: is a version already live (improve it, don’t duplicate it), and can we source every claim? How we finished the Sloan Appliance article — verified, hyperlinked, and live.
One Form Row to a Working Intake System: Processing Sigrun’s First Website Request
Meta article: how one agent session turned the first test submission of Sigrun’s website request form into a validated entry, a caught email trap, a Basecamp status post, a daily intake agent, and a definitive article.
How Any Group Gets Personal Brand Websites for Its Members: The Request-to-Live-Site System
The definitive process for turning a group’s member website requests into live personal brand sites: one form, one sheet, one Basecamp thread, one agent checking daily. Built and tested live with Sigrun’s SOMBA program.
The audit that sold itself: how a one-time DealCon report became our first monthly audit subscription
Matt Bodnar asked for his DealCon authority audit monthly. Here’s the agent-run delta-audit subscription that delivers it — and the first run’s receipts, including a Knowledge Panel descriptor Google rewrote in five weeks.
How to Track If AI Cites You — Free to $828/Month
Do ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI cite you? The playbook to measure it — free to $828/mo — plus the skill file your agent can run every week.



