Automation
A rule that reads a defined slice of your inbox and files it before you see it, so what is left is mail from people.
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You pick something you actually want. We give you the exact prompts and the steps in order. A couple of hours later there is a working thing you use, rather than a certificate you file away.
No card. You choose which Build it is, and you get the whole thing rather than a taste of it.
- Made for non-coders
- 1–3 hours per Build
- Updated when tools change
From the library
Real Builds
Things people came here to make.
Every card below is a Build that exists, with the outcome written the way the person following it would describe it afterwards.
Home
A week of dinners your household will actually eat, a shopping list in the order you walk the shop, and a saved prompt that redoes the whole thing next Sunday in about two minutes.
Creative
Six images that clearly belong together, made on purpose rather than by luck, plus the written recipe that lets you make a seventh next month that still matches.
Personal Productivity
A small web app, live at a real address, that does one thing you currently do badly in a group chat — and that you can send to someone tonight.
How it works
Pick one. Follow it. Use the thing you made.
Pick a Build
Every Build leads with what you walk away with, so you know before you start whether you want it. Sort by what you have time for tonight.
Follow the steps
Copy the prompt, paste it where we say, and check what came back against what we told you to expect. When a step goes sideways there is a note about that too, written by somebody it went sideways for.
Keep using it
What you made lives in your own account on whichever tool you used. We are the instructions, not the landlord, and nothing you build stops working if you leave.
Where Builds come from
Six corners of an ordinary week.
The library is organised by the part of life a Build is for, not by which model it happens to use.
Home
A meal plan and a shopping list your household will actually follow.
Work
Meeting notes that turn themselves into who owes what by when.
Family and friends
A trip companion that knows who is coming and what they can eat.
Small business
Answers to the same customer question, written once and reused.
Creative
A set of images that look like they belong to each other.
Personal productivity
A plan for the thing you keep putting off, broken small enough to start.
What every Build includes
The same six things, every time.
A Build is not an article about a topic. It is a set of instructions that has been run start to finish by somebody who wrote down where it got awkward.
- What you end up with, written down before you start
- Every prompt in full, with a button that copies it
- The steps in order, and a checkpoint after each one so you know it worked
- What to do when a step misbehaves, because sometimes it will
- Which tools it needs, what they cost, and whether the free plan is enough
- Your place kept as you go, so you can put it down and come back
What you end up with
Finished, and in use by the weekend.
- TravelA packing list built from your actual itinerary, your actual baggage allowance and whether there is a washing machine — plus a template that makes the next trip a five-minute job.Trip Packing Assistant
- Small BusinessA proposal you can send, drafted in about ten minutes from rough notes, built out of your own past proposals rather than a template that sounds like everyone else.First-Draft Proposal Generator
- Personal ProductivityA written plan for the thing you keep not starting, broken into steps small enough that the first one takes fifteen minutes.Personal AI Project Planner
- Family and FriendsOne sheet holding every birthday, every gift idea you have had during the year, and what you have already given — plus a monthly prompt that tells you who to think about next.Gift and Birthday Tracker
- WorkA saved prompt that turns messy meeting notes into who agreed to do what by when, plus a follow-up message you can send after one read.Meeting-to-Action Assistant
The library
A look at the shelf.
No highlight reel and no cherry-picked success stories, because there is nothing to cherry-pick from yet. These are the most recent Builds as they stand today, and a new one joins them every week.
Automation
A rule that reads a defined slice of your inbox and files it before you see it, so what is left is mail from people.
Home
A week of dinners your household will actually eat, a shopping list in the order you walk the shop, and a saved prompt that redoes the whole thing next Sunday in about two minutes.
Creative
Six images that clearly belong together, made on purpose rather than by luck, plus the written recipe that lets you make a seventh next month that still matches.
Personal Productivity
A small web app, live at a real address, that does one thing you currently do badly in a group chat — and that you can send to someone tonight.
Travel
A packing list built from your actual itinerary, your actual baggage allowance and whether there is a washing machine — plus a template that makes the next trip a five-minute job.
Small Business
A proposal you can send, drafted in about ten minutes from rough notes, built out of your own past proposals rather than a template that sounds like everyone else.
First-Draft Proposal Generator
Some experience helps1 hour to 1 hour 30 minTools used: Claude · ChatGPT
Free, and free for good
Your first Build is free. You pick which.
Almost nobody pays for something like this before trying one, so the free Build has to be worth doing on its own. Take anything off the shelf, follow it to the end, and if you never pay us anything you still have a working tool and a much better idea of what these models are good for.
Start your first Build free- Your pick of the library, not a shortlist somebody else chose for you
- The whole Build: every prompt, the steps in order, the walkthrough, the templates and files
- The same version members get, not a preview with the good parts taken out
- One Build, and you say which. The rest stay readable, but their steps stay shut
- An account with an email address. No card, no trial that quietly starts charging
- Yours to keep and redo whenever, whether or not you ever pay us anything
Membership
One new Build a week, and the whole shelf behind it.
One tier, one promise. Every week there is something new worth an evening, and everything published before it is already open.
- A new Build published every week
- The whole library, open from the day you join
- Prompts, ordered steps, videos, templates and the files where a Build needs them
- Progress kept on everything, and a shelf of the ones you have finished
- Builds you have already done get updated when a tool changes underneath them
What it costs
Two ways to pay for the same thing.
Monthly
$29a month
Stop any month, from your billing page.
Best value
Annual
$290a year
Works out at $24.17 a month.
See what is included
Your first Build is free either way.
Before you sign up
The things people ask first.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. If you can copy something and paste it into a box, you can do every Build in the library. A few of the harder ones touch tools that look technical, and those spell out every click.
Which AI tools do I need to pay for?
Most Builds run on the free plan of ChatGPT or Claude. Some need something else, and every Build says up front which tools it uses, what they cost, and whether the free tier will get you through it. If a paid tool is genuinely required, that is on the page before you start rather than in step six.
How long does one Build take?
Usually between an hour and three. Each one carries an estimate on the card, and the estimates are honest about the slow parts rather than optimistic about the fast ones.
Is the free Build actually free?
Yes. An email address and a password, no card at any point. You choose which Build it is, you get all of it, and it stays in your account whether or not you ever pay for anything.
Can I change which Build I picked?
Not from inside your account. The free one is chosen once, and we say so plainly before you confirm rather than burying it. If you picked the wrong Build by accident, write to us and a person will reset it.
Do you host what I build?
No, and that is deliberate. Whatever you make lives in your own ChatGPT, your own spreadsheet, your own Canva account. Nothing you build depends on us still being here.
What happens when a tool changes its buttons around?
We go back through the affected Build and fix it. Members get the updated version at no extra cost, including on Builds they finished months ago.
Can I cancel?
Two clicks from your billing page, no email to write. Access runs to the end of the period you have already paid for, and your progress and saved Builds stay in your account afterwards.
Free · no card
Pick one thing worth an afternoon.
The whole shelf is there to read. Take the Build that sounds most useful and see how far you get before dinner.
Start your first Build free