The Daily AI Brief
The day's AI news translated for working creators. Published every weekday, free, no account. Read the brief.
Take what's useful, no strings.
Most of this needs nothing from you but a click. Where something does ask for an email, it says so on the card rather than after you've clicked.
The Buy-Back Playbook
PDF · 10 workflows — email required
Ten AI workflows that hand solo operators back 15–30 hours a month, with the exact prompts and where each one breaks.
Organised by the raw material you already have rather than by tool — things you photographed, things you said out loud, things you already wrote down. Different cut of the same problem as the Quick Wins guide, and deeper.
Guides & Downloads
PDFs and companion guides you take with you — the exact prompts, worksheets, and walkthroughs, with honest notes on where each one breaks.
Agent OS Readiness Checklist
PDF · 10 checks — email required
Ten yes/no checks that say whether your workflow is ready for an agentic desk — or whether you are still better served by chat tabs.
The score key includes a "not yet" band with an honest instruction to go fix the missing piece rather than buy anything, which is the band most people land in. Every check is readable on the page before you hand over an address.
The Anti-AI-Slop Toolkit
Resource guide · design + writing + detectors — no email needed
Every repo from the anti-AI-slop video: UI/UX Pro Max, Anthropic frontend-design, Impeccable, awesome-design-md, Humanizer, No AI Slop and the detectors, with verified install commands.
Star counts, last-update dates and install commands were checked against each project's own README on September 14, 2026 — including which ones are tiny experiments and which popular one hasn't been touched since March. Ends with seven taste rules no tool can do for you.
The Creator Stack: 10 Free GitHub Repos
Resource guide · 10 repos · checklist — no email needed
The full list from the video: all ten repos with links, licenses, real costs, the install commands, and a first-week setup checklist you can tick off.
Install commands were checked against each project's own README on September 13, 2026, and every section links back to that README so you can check it again when a project moves. The walk-through of the video lives on the blog as the companion guide.
25 AI Quick Wins by Craft
PDF · 8 pages — email required
Twenty-five things AI is genuinely good at right now, grouped by what you actually do — designer, filmmaker, musician, writer, marketer, builder.
Every win carries a note on where it breaks. Those limits are the part that decides whether a workflow survives contact with a real deadline, so they are in the guide rather than left for you to discover at 2am.
HookLab: the build prompt
PDF · 6 pages — email required
The exact ChatGPT Codex prompt that built a working YouTube title generator, plus the three-agent delegation sequence and what each of the six build stages added.
The prompt is verbatim from the build recording rather than tidied up afterwards, and the guide is straight about what the tool will not do — no fact-checking, no analytics, no proof any title will perform. Nothing in the prompt is Codex-specific; it works in any agent that can create files and delegate.
10 Ways Claude Code Buys Back Your Time
Companion guide · 10 prompts — email required
The walk-through companion to the video: all ten ways Claude Code buys back time for solo business owners, with a starter move and a copyable prompt for each.
Built to be worked through rather than read — tick each one off as you go. The prompts are the same ones used in the video, not cleaned-up versions of them.
Messy Notes to a Live Website
Companion guide · 7 prompts — email required
The exact three input files and seven prompts used to turn one page of messy notes into a live, deployed website with Claude Code.
Run the same build on your own idea. Every prompt is in the order it was actually used, including the ones that only exist because something went wrong the first time.
Every Prompt From the Claude Code Website Build
Prompt sheet · 10 prompts — no email needed
The seven prompts that took a site from nothing to live and deployed in one afternoon, plus the image style preamble reused verbatim across every generation.
Every prompt carries a badge saying whether it was typed in the build, reconstructed from the build log, or written for you afterwards — including the three vague ones ("make it as beautiful as you can") that did most of the work.
The 9 Fixes — Claude Fable 5.1 Prompt Pack
Prompt pack · 9 fixes — no email needed
Anthropic changed how Fable 5.1 behaves, and a lot of the prompt advice people copied two years ago now works against them. Seven copy-and-paste blocks, one setting, one habit.
Each block is marked for where it came from: adapted from Anthropic's own documented wording, or mine. Includes the one nobody talks about — 5.1 reproduces source wording without marking it as a quote more often than the last model did, which is a real problem if you repurpose articles.
Presentations That Do Not Look AI-Made
Companion guide — email required
Install design skills, feed Claude your real messy input, and get an interactive on-brand presentation out the other side.
The companion walkthrough to the video, including the design-skill install step most people skip — which is the actual difference between a deck that looks generated and one that does not.
Claude's AI Mark, Explained
Resource guide — email required
What Claude's watermark can and cannot prove, why the EU AI Act is behind it, and a five-step walkthrough to build a content workflow you can explain.
Written for the moment a client or platform asks you to account for how something was made. The limits are the useful part — a mark that proves less than people assume is worth knowing about before you rely on it.
The 30-Day Content Calendar Workflow
PDF · 15 pages — email required
The prompts, agent briefs and worksheets behind the video — a channel audit, a 30-day calendar and an interactive dashboard, from four inputs and three prompts.
Set up to run on your channel rather than mine, so the prompts are bracketed and the worksheets are blank. Includes a troubleshooting table for when the first run comes back generic, a scoreboard for the five metrics the agents cannot see, and all thirty rows of the calendar it produced as a quality bar.
Tools
Free, browser-based tools that run without an account, an API key, or a usage bill.
HookLab — the tool
Free tool · nothing to install — no email needed
Turn one rough topic into a complete title, hook and thumbnail kit. Four inputs in, ten titles across three strategies plus three opening hooks and five thumbnail phrases out.
Runs entirely in your browser — no account, no API key, no usage bill, and nothing is sent anywhere. The results come from deterministic templates rather than a model call, which is exactly why it can be free to use and free to run.
Watch & Read
The ongoing free streams — full workflow videos and written breakdowns, kept updated as things change.
The public channel
Video · free, always — no email needed
Full workflows built end to end, tool reviews that say who should skip the tool, and the AI news briefs.
The public videos are not teasers for the paid room. If a title makes a promise, the video keeps it — the members-only material is more of the same work, not the missing half of it.
Written breakdowns
Articles — no email needed
The long-form versions — what changed, what it means for working creatives, and what to do about it this week.
Written for reading rather than watching, and kept updated when a model release makes an older piece wrong.
What isn't on this page
The free material is genuinely useful on its own — it isn't a trailer. What it can't do is give you a room full of people who have already tried the thing you're about to try. That part is the membership:
- The versioned prompt library, with the model each prompt was tuned for and notes on where it broke.
- The weekly live build session, and the archive of every past one.
- The private Discord, sorted by discipline, and the project feedback threads.