Things I built — so you can too.
Selfware is software you build for yourself with AI. Not a product subscription. Not a workflow for teams. Something that fits exactly the way your life works. These are the things I've built for mine — written up so you can replicate them in 30 minutes and make them yours.
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How I built my Morning Brief
7 minutes, zero code, runs itself every day
A Shortcut fires at 6:45am, reads my calendar, pulls the weather, and asks Claude to write me a 3-sentence brief. I open my phone and my day is already in focus. Here's exactly how I built it.
Pre-trip intelligence in one tap
Packing list, neighborhood guide, restaurants — in 30 seconds
Before every trip I used to spend an hour scattered across tabs. Now one Shortcut does it. I enter the destination and dates — Claude handles the rest.
The fastest way to capture an idea
Dictate → Claude cleans it up → routed to the right note
I was losing ideas because capturing them had too much friction. This Shortcut removed all of it.
My monthly money check-in
Plain-English summary of where the money went
Runs on the first of every month. I paste in a bank export, Claude gives me a plain summary and one thing to change.
Articles & guides
Reference reading
Deeper dives on AI skills, shortcuts, and visibility — useful alongside the builds above.
Skills Files
How to Use Skills Files: A Practical Setup Guide for MCP AI Agents
Skills files turn “prompting” into a reliable workflow. Here is the simplest setup that works across MCP-compatible agents — plus the checks that keep outputs consistent.
AI Growth
How to Use AI for Personal and Professional Growth: A Repeatable System
The most useful AI systems are not “chat assistants.” They are routines: weekly planning, learning loops, and workflow templates that keep you moving even when you are busy.
AI Search
AI Search Optimization Audit: A Checklist for Google + Answer Engines
If you want more organic traffic from Google and more citations in AI answers, you need pages that are both crawlable and citation-friendly. Use this audit to find the gaps fast.
AI Visibility
What Is AI Visibility? A Practical Guide for Teams That Want to Be Found
AI visibility is the layer between technical SEO and AI answer surfaces. It determines whether your site is easy for models and search engines to understand, trust, and cite.
Skills Files
Skills Files vs Prompt Engineering: Why Reusable Workflow Context Wins
Prompting can get an agent started. Skills files give the agent repeatable judgment, guardrails, workflows, and output formats your team can reuse.
AI Search
How to Prepare Your Website for AI Search, Answer Engines, and Agents
If you want more organic visibility in AI search, start with crawlability, then improve page clarity, schema coverage, and internal linking around real search intent.
MCP Workflows
The Best MCP Skills for Teams: Where to Start With Practical Agent Workflows
The best first MCP skills are the ones that remove repeated manual work, add guardrails to risky workflows, and produce outputs your team already uses.
AI Search
llms.txt Explained: What It Does, What It Doesn't, and How to Use It Well
`llms.txt` is not a magic ranking file. It is a lightweight discovery and policy signal that works best when the rest of your site is already organized and crawlable.
Agent Workflows
How Anable Skills Help Teams Scale AI Agents Without More Prompt Chaos
The transition from solo prompting to team-wide agent usage breaks down when the workflow only lives in someone's head. Skills files turn that knowledge into reusable infrastructure.
Skills Library
Download the AI skill files that power these builds.
Shortcuts Library
Download the iPhone Shortcuts used in these guides.