Transcribe a video locally for free (Whisper)
Two open-source tools and four commands to turn a video into text on your own computer, for free and without uploading anything.
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AI at work, one tutorial at a time
This is where I show how to put AI to work in a small business: Claude prompts to copy, agents, open-source AI tools, automations and security habits. Each tutorial gives the steps, the commands and the official link, with no sign-up. A new one comes out every day, often shown on video on Instagram.
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Remove an image background locally
One click in Preview for a single photo, one rembg command for a whole folder: two free ways to cut out images without uploading anything.
Get your Google Forms responses on Telegram
A Telegram bot and fifteen lines of script to get a ping on your phone the moment a client fills in your Google Form.
Test your offer with AI before you sell it
A copy-paste prompt that turns Claude into a demanding buyer, so you see what is wrong with your offer before the first meeting.
Send files without the cloud using LocalSend
A free, open-source alternative to AirDrop that works across all your devices, Android and Windows included, with no account and no cloud.
Install Claude's official skills
Anthropic's skills teach Claude to produce real Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files. Here is how to turn them on, in Claude or in Claude Code.
Turn a blog post into an Instagram carousel
A ready-to-copy prompt that splits your post into 7 to 9 slides, with a hook, short copy and a visual idea for each.
A daily AI summary of your inbox
A small Google script, a Claude API key, and your inbox summed up in a single email every morning, with no server to manage.
Check your domain's SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Three DNS records decide whether your work emails reach the inbox or the spam folder. Here is how to check them yourself.
Record your screen with automatic zooms
Cap, an open-source screen recorder for Mac and Windows, turns your clicks into zooms and exports a clean demo without video editing software.
A CLAUDE.md file for freelancers
A plain text file Claude Code reads at the start of every session, so you stop re-explaining your business, your tone and your rules.
Free automatic subtitles, made locally
One command to turn the voice in your videos into a subtitle file, for free and without uploading the video anywhere.
Run n8n for free with one command
The official n8n command sets everything up on your computer with Docker, so you can learn and test automations without paying for a subscription.
Check if your email leaked in a breach (HIBP)
A free, well-known website that tells you whether your email addresses were exposed in a data breach, and the steps to take next.
Convert PDF and Word files to Markdown for AI
A free Microsoft tool that turns PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files into clean text, ready to hand to Claude or another assistant.
A prompt that makes AI ask questions first
A copy-paste prompt that makes Claude ask the right questions before writing, for an accurate first draft instead of three rounds of edits.
Create your visuals with Claude Design
You have to send a client a deck or a sales page tomorrow, with no designer and no time for layout. Claude Design, Anthropic's official tool, builds it with you from your notes.
5 prompts so AI does not damage your documents
You ask an AI to fix one sentence in a contract, and it hands back a text where three clauses changed without warning. These five prompts force it to touch only what you asked, and to prove it.
Remove your data from directory sites with AI
You search your name on Google and find your home address and phone number on a directory you never signed up for. In the EU, the law lets you ask for erasure, and AI can draft the requests for you.
The Apple-style scroll effect with a Claude prompt
You have seen product pages where a video moves forward as you scroll, and you assume it is only for big brands. With a Claude prompt and a free library, your home page can do the same.
50 designer words for your AI image prompts
You ask an AI for a nice photo of your product and get a flat, generic image. These 50 trade words finally tell it which light, framing and material you want.
5 mistakes when starting with AI at work
You tried AI for a quote or a post, the result was bland or wrong, and you decided it was not for your trade. Often, it comes down to five avoidable mistakes.
Prepare your documents before using AI
AI makes up a price or promises a deadline you cannot meet? It does not know your business. Eight short documents are enough to bring it up to speed.
Find forgotten money in your name, with AI
An old savings account, a former employer's savings plan, a relative's life insurance: AI helps you list what to look for, without knowing anything about you.
10 free SEO tools and the action plan prompt
You know you should work on your SEO, but the free reports are hard to read. AI turns their exports into a ranked list of tasks.
Test: can AI read your website?
You ask ChatGPT to describe your business and the answer misses the mark. Sometimes your own site is shutting out AI crawlers: here is the two-minute test.
Build a WhatsApp agent with Claude Code
Your customers message you on WhatsApp in the evening and at weekends, then buy elsewhere when nobody answers. Claude Code can write the AI agent that replies, a small server you own.
Clone your own voice locally for voiceovers
You re-record a whole video voiceover because one sentence changed. An open-source AI model learns your voice from ten seconds of audio and reads for you, on your own computer.
Cut the token bill of your AI agents
Your AI agent works well, but the API bill keeps climbing every month. Prompt caching, the right model and two open-source compression tools bring it down.
Parallel Claude Code sessions, no conflicts
You start two Claude sessions on the same project and one overwrites the other's work. With a worktree each, several AI agents move forward in parallel without getting in each other's way.
Keep your Mac awake for an AI agent
You start an AI agent in the evening, close the Mac, and by morning nothing has moved. Three Apple settings and one command keep it working while you are away.
A second brain with Obsidian and Claude Code
Your ideas, meeting notes and decisions are scattered across notebooks and apps. With Obsidian and Claude Code, AI sorts them and finds them for you.
Make Claude answer from your documents only
You spend ten minutes digging through your terms or procedures to answer one question. A Claude Project answers it by quoting the right passage.
MCP connectors: plug Claude into your tools
You keep copying data from Notion or Stripe into Claude. An MCP connector gives it direct access, as long as you pick the right one.
Turn a screenshot into code with AI
A client sends you a screenshot of the page they have in mind and you start coding from scratch. AI turns it into a first draft of code in minutes.
An AI agent that browses for you: Agent Browser
You test your website's form by hand after every update. With Agent Browser, Claude opens the page, fills it in and shows you the result.
Claude Code hooks: a guardrail for your AI
You wrote “never touch the invoices” in your instructions, and the AI did it anyway. A hook turns that instruction into an automatic check on every action.
13 lesser-known Claude Code commands
You type your requests into Claude Code without ever opening the “/” menu. These official commands undo a mistake, summarise a session or measure your usage.
Claude for Excel: 5 prompts for business owners
You open your tracking spreadsheet at month end without knowing where a figure comes from. The Claude for Excel add-in explains it, cell by cell.
Claude in Chrome: 5 uses for a small business
You copy details from one site to another and compare offers tab by tab. The Claude in Chrome extension reads the page and does these steps with you.
Claude Code routines: scheduled AI tasks
Every Monday you put together the same project update by hand. A Claude Code routine prepares it on its own, at the time you choose, even with your laptop closed.
Install an AI skill without getting caught out
You found a promising skill for your AI agent, installed by thousands of people. Before you open your computer to it, here is how to check what it really does.
last30days, AI research on the last 30 days
Before a meeting or a tool choice, you spend an hour digging through Reddit and YouTube. The last30days skill does that research with AI and hands you a sourced summary.
caveman, shorter answers from your AI
Your AI agent answers in three paragraphs when one sentence would do. The caveman skill forces a telegraphic style, and its README is honest about what that saves.
grill-me, the AI that questions your idea
You ask Claude Code for a tool, it builds it, and it is not what you had in mind. The grill-me skill makes it question your idea first, one decision at a time.
skills.sh: find a skill for your AI agent
You explain the same method to your AI agent every session. skills.sh helps you find the skill that teaches it once and for all, and install it with one command.
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