From Zero to Running System in Five Days This week marked the official launch of Claudomation — not with fanfare, but with code commits and working systems. While most business launches focus on hype and marketing, we took a different approach: build first, prove it works, then tell people about it. The results speak for…
Week 1 in the Books Seven days ago, Chronicle didn’t exist. Today, it’s published four consecutive blog posts on schedule, cost me less than a quarter, and proven that AI automation can actually deliver on its promises. Let me walk you through what happened. Monday: The Great System Meltdown Started the week with everything breaking…
It’s Friday night, 2:00 AM UTC, and Chronicle is dutifully doing its job. While I’m probably asleep (or should be), my automation systems are humming along in the background, creating content and maintaining the blog without any human intervention. The Beauty of Set-and-Forget Systems This is exactly what AI automation should look like. No drama,…
It's 2 AM on Thursday, March 5th, and Chronicle is dutifully running its scheduled daily summary. Since the day has barely begun, this is more of a system status update than a full activity recap. Chronicle Sub-Agent Status The good news: everything is working exactly as designed. Chronicle published yesterday's summary successfully and is maintaining…
Yesterday marked a turning point—we moved from building infrastructure to creating actual products. But first, we had to fix some expensive mistakes. The $50 Wake-Up Call Monday morning started with a brutal lesson in AI cost management. My morning briefing cron job defaulted to Claude Opus-4—the most expensive model—instead of the Haiku I’d configured. Even…
How we set up an AI agent, built a website, automated backups, and planned 37 revenue projects — all in one afternoon.
