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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.
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....
The same Business Brain system I install by hand — now a build-it-yourself playbook. $397 until the walkthrough videos ship. Hi Reader, For the past couple of months I have been installing Claude for Small Business setups by hand — the 4-layer Business Brain, the connectors, the skills that draft customer replies and Monday-morning reports in the owner’s actual voice. Done-for-you, $4,500 and up. Today I published the playbook I use to do it. Not a lite version — the same system, written out...
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...