Fractional CTO in Austin — 15 years, 50+ products shipped. Every Tuesday, The AI Leader's Weekly Playbook sends one practical AI play for your business: real builds, real numbers, what actually worked. No hype, no "10 ChatGPT prompts" filler. If you want AI doing real work in your company, this is your Tuesday edge.
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Justin McKelvey | Fractional CTO & AI Consultant
Fractional CTO in Austin — 15 years, 50+ products shipped. Every Tuesday, The AI Leader's Weekly Playbook sends one practical AI play for your business: real builds, real numbers, what actually worked. No hype, no "10 ChatGPT prompts" filler. If you want AI doing real work in your company, this is your Tuesday edge.
The 3-stage decision matrix non-technical founders need. Hi there, You're a non-technical founder with an idea. You need to ship something. The order matters. If you skip a stage, the next one breaks. 1. Vibe-code the prototype. Use Lovable, Bolt, Replit — whatever's fastest. Don't hire a developer yet. The point is to learn whether the idea has legs, not whether the code is good. Spend $20–200 here, not $20,000. 2. Hire a developer to ship v1. Once the prototype proves people want this...
10 AI tools I actually keep open. Most aren't ChatGPT. Hi there, ChatGPT is the default. It's not the answer to every question. On a normal workday I have at least 4 AI tools open. None of them is just ChatGPT. Here's where each wins: Claude — writing, analysis, anything where I need a clean first draft. Better prose than ChatGPT. Stays in voice. Cursor or Claude Code — coding. ChatGPT is fine for one-off scripts. For actual codebases, you want a tool that has the whole repo in context....
Should you build a custom AI agent? Is your industry about to be disrupted? Is it ethical to use AI on client work? Quick answers. Hi there, Format change-up this week. Three questions I keep getting, three answers. 1. "Should we build a custom AI agent for our business?" Almost certainly not yet. Custom agents are expensive to build, expensive to maintain, and almost always replace something a ChatGPT prompt could do for $20/month. The exceptions: you have a workflow that runs hundreds of...