Sep 2026 build
Shipped a nightly scan under an adversarial review loop
Ten tickets, every one run past a critic before it could ship, and roughly ninety root-cause fixes landed before night one.
Build Log
#automation
14 entries
Sep 2026 build
Built a YouTube Shorts engine that runs itself on the always-on box
From a competitor teardown to a fully autonomous daily pipeline in two days: news sweep, de-slop-gated script, cards, cloned voice and music, render, avatar bubble, upload and schedule with read-back.
Aug 2026 build
Gave the always-on agent hands on a browser, without handing it the keys
A credential broker that types secrets from 1Password without the value ever entering the container, a closed nine-operation browser vocabulary behind an origin allowlist, and a readiness ladder proven green twice.
Aug 2026 build
The always-on box became a decision-taking computer
The agent server now serves its own decision console over Tailscale with TLS. Findings, drafts and approvals flow through one recorded writer, and the first real approval was executed end to end from the console.
Aug 2026 build
Solved the click a defended page silently drops
Rebuilt browser automation around trusted input after measuring the blind spot: synthetic clicks land but are stamped untrusted, and a defended page drops them with no error to debug.
Aug 2026 build
Shipped /lead-rescue, with the guardrail in the build instead of the README
A Vault skill that revives cold leads and writes the follow-up ladder, and structurally cannot send: the packer fails the build if a send path appears anywhere in the skill.
Jul 2026 build
Shipped a member-engagement engine with a zero-LLM runtime
A member-engagement system for a community platform with no public API: campaign batching, weekly digest bundles, and hard guardrails that abort the whole batch on the first unverified send.
Jul 2026 build
Shipped a claymation VSL: a 110-second animated sales video
A 15-beat, Wallace & Gromit-style clay-world sales video, live on the Zero to Automated About page: script → AI voiceover → AI-generated living-clay footage → vector composition, built beat-by-beat under human review.
Jun 2026 build
Built /funding-snapshot: live markets dashboard, fully offline
A skill that pulls fresh funding, price, and volatility for any ticker and bakes it into a single offline HTML dashboard. Shipped to the free ZTA Vault.
Jun 2026 build
Shipped the ZTA Authority Engine content system
Two alternating post types, proof posts and news takes, each gated through a 13-persona focus group before it ships, funneling to the free ZTA Vault.
Jun 2026 build
Built /client-pack: branded docs from raw inputs
A brand-config skill that turns raw business inputs into branded proposals and invoices (HTML to PDF, no external service). Built for the free ZTA Vault.
Spring 2026 client
Built a self-narrating AI intake demo for a dental practice
An interactive prototype for a dental practice weighing an AI patient-intake system: a working demo with an auto-playing narrated walkthrough that pitched itself, and moved the engagement to scope and pricing.
Spring 2026 client
Shipped "Summer": a HIPAA-conscious AI voice receptionist
A live inbound AI receptionist ("Summer") for an insurance agency: state-law AI disclosure, structured medication read-back, and a warm hand-off to a human.
Spring 2026 client
Built a compliance-gated AI advisor system for a financial-advisory firm
An advisor dashboard with auto-generated quarterly PDF explainers and a compliance gate requiring a verbatim source quote and provenance tag on every output.