Stories from the Trenches
We use AI in real business — managing restaurants, running marketing campaigns, creating content, and automating everything we can. This is our journal.
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AI-Powered Inventory for Restaurants — From Excel Chaos to Full Traceability
How we went from an Excel spreadsheet that nobody updated to a system tracking 757 bags/month with unique Bag IDs and full audit trail using Airtable + SQLite + AI.
Control AI from Your Phone — A Remote Dev Setup That Actually Works
How to set up Tailscale + Termius + tmux to run Claude Code AI from anywhere using just your iPhone. No laptop required.
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View all11 AI Working Simultaneously — Agent Teams That Turn 3-Day Jobs into 2 Hours
Using Claude Code Agent Teams to run 11 AI instances in parallel — Strategy, Content, Media, Data, Design — they communicate, divide work, and we just approve.
AI Carousel Pipeline — From Writing to Posting Without Canva or a Designer
End-to-end: Claude Code writes captions → Gemini generates photorealistic images → Blotato publishes to FB + IG automatically. 30 minutes per carousel.
Client Dashboard in One Hour — Built with AI, Zero Login Required
How we built Client Summary Pages that clients can view on their phones to check project status, reducing 'how's it going?' messages. Now live for 4 clients.
Building a Chat Bot for Staff Inventory Reports — Just Type to Log
A chat bot where staff just type 'received 5 bags sirloin 12.5 kg' and the system handles the rest — Bag IDs, database entry, and real-time stock updates, all automatically.
Cost Overrun +30% — How AI Found the Root Cause in Our Google Sheet
Using AI to analyze sales data vs recipe specs in Google Sheets, we discovered a 30%+ cost variance in raw materials and pinpointed exactly where the waste was happening.