Claude Automated My Entire Business (Not Clickbait)

I've got to the point where I can run my entire business just from my phone using nothing but cloud. And look, this isn't going to be one of those clickbait videos where, oh my god, cloud automated my entire business. I mean, it did, but there's nuance to it, right? And so for context, I run an AI automation agency. There's a lot of work that goes into that. I've got things like cold outreach systems running in the background. I've got a lot of efforts in content like the one you're seeing right now, mostly posting on YouTube, Twitter, expanding to other platforms slowly on the fulfillment side i've got a couple clients i'm working with to help automate their business i've got one particular canadian client in particular who has generated like 400k an extra 400k in the last quarter in the last 90 days all thanks to the systems i built and so you know they're happy and we're going to continue working together and most of the work that i'm doing is just you know prompting cloud and having it do the work for me. And so in this video, I'm literally just going to show you how I do all that. Like, how do I do this? How do you get to the point where you've automated basically like 90 to 95% of the business and all of it runs entirely on cloud, which is exactly what I've done. And I'm going to show you how I did that. Well, basically I've turned all of my work into a set of skills, into a set of workflows and code that cloud can run autonomously or with me prompting it to do all of my business tasks. And so in this video, I'm going to show you how to create really great, flawed skills that can take over different parts of your life for you, that aren't going to cost you a bajillion tokens every time you run them, because that's just slop, that actually reliably run their workflows, and they get work done without you having to babysit them, because that's a big one. You're not automating anything if you actually have to sit there and watch the agent go through everything line by line and make sure it's not going to break something. If you're sitting there watching your agent work, you haven't automated anything. You've just replaced one job with another. I'll also show you a few examples from my own personal skills, how I created them, how I run and manage them, and how you can recreate them for your own use cases. So let's go. Now before you go any further in this video, stop, think about what you actually want to automate because I know a lot of you guys are just building complete slop, useless apps, and automations that don't actually serve you at all. Like you're trying to automate tasks that don't even need to be automated or that save you like five minutes a week when you should really be, you know, automating a task that saves you like five hours a day. So I've already made a video on this. Go watch that. It's called something like what to automate or, you know, how to pick something to automate. Go watch that and figure out exactly the highest ROI tasks that you're actually supposed to automate because those are the ones that are actually going to save you time, save you money, save you energy and not, you know, automating random bullshit that you don't even necessarily do in your day anyway. Once you know exactly what you want to do, open up a new cloud chat and just interactively work through the task with cloud guided through the exact task that you want to perform. And you going to see this whole process is extremely simple to follow through with Now once cloud is achieving that task reliably once cloud has completed that task reliably with the correct output following the correct procedure and everything, ask it to turn the entire workflow into a skill. And this is, by the way, the best way to create a skill. Instead of trying to, you know, one shot a skill where you basically just tell cloud, hey, I want you to do this and this and this, and then just ask it to turn it into a skill, instead of that, you should have cloud perform the task at least once without using a skill, like literally just prompting it and interactively going through the task with it. And once you see that it can reliably complete it, that's when you ask it to turn it into a skill, because then it has the full context of all the intricate steps that go into that process. And then it can write that skill file way more accurately. So once you've done this, and you've asked cloud to turn the entire workflow into a skill, the next time you want to do that task, just run that skill again and then see if Claude can do that task correctly or not, right? Following the skill that it wrote in the previous chat. Odds are it probably will, but if it doesn't for some reason, which is very rare honestly, I can't remember the last time a skill failed for me, but if it does happen, see what went wrong and ask Claude to patch that part so that it doesn't break again. Now I'll be honest, in practice, at least in my experience, I've never had Claude fail a task for me more than once so yeah maybe the models are just that good or maybe that's that's just me and my prompting now once the skill is running reliably ask cloud to make it more deterministic that is a very important word and less token heavy the best way to do both of these things is to turn as many of the steps into code as you possibly can and that way claude can just run the code which will do 80% of the work for you without costing any extra tokens at all. Like running a Python script or something costs zero tokens. But having to do all of those steps by hand using cloud will cost you a lot of tokens. Plus this code is guaranteed to run the exact same way 100% of the time with zero changes in the steps. No hallucinations, no nothing. So you also get way more reliable skills as well as just less token heavy skills in general. Plus, if you have a skill that is mostly just, you know, reliable deterministic code, you can even have a cheap and small model like Haiku run the skill for you because there's less reasoning, less intelligence involved in the skill, right? I've got several, probably like 10 or more skills just like that, that literally use Haiku to run them because like 80 or 90% of the skill is just, you know, deterministic code. and the skill is just a wrapper so that I can you know use an LLM to perform it for me instead of me having to go into into the terminal and you know type the commands and everything and wait for the command to finish yeah an agent can do that for me and besides because the skill is entirely or mostly deterministic a model like Haiku can do it without even touching my usage limits because it's such a cheap and small model so yeah another little fun tip over there and also just off the top of my head let me give you an example of how exactly this is useful I building a couple mobile apps right in Kotlin in a native language and while I prompting Opus to build all these features for me it you know building the app it's creating the apk the signed you know apk files it's publishing the code to github creating releases for it writing the change logs and everything all of that is a lot of steps and they perform every single time I want to make a change in the app and publish that change over to GitHub. That's a lot of steps and they just keep getting repeated, right? And so I had like one or two chats with Opus that consumed a lot of tokens, even for basic features. And I just got curious and I asked it, hey, what was the most token heavy parts in this entire session and what we can do to reduce that or optimize that? And it just told me, hey, I spent most of the tokens just doing all of these tasks we could just write a script that does it for us and i was like yeah okay and though so that's exactly what we did and now i have a script like a bash or python script like release.sh or release.py and it's going to package the app it's going to build it using gradle it's going to install it on my phone it's going to publish the code on github write the release file write the you know change logs and everything it's going to do all of that without costing me any more tokens and I can just run this script or I guess Opus can run this script every single time it makes a new feature or some bug fixes in the app and it doesn't incur any more tokens. So that's the way I want you to think of these workflows. You want to turn repeatable workflows or tasks into skills. You want to then turn those skills into deterministic code as much as you possibly can. It's like a pipeline, right? And you want to get to the bottom of that pipeline as much as you can with as many tasks as you can. That is the overall philosophy that I want you to follow in this entire automation process. And by the way, if you're enjoying this video, make sure you like and subscribe. It really helps the channel. Your support means a lot. And you know, for a tiny channel like this one, even five likes or something is amazing. Now, let's go over some examples. The first one I want to talk about is an Excalibur B-roll skill. You're probably seeing the effects of that skill on this video already but it's basically a skill that Opus runs that will generate Excalibur style b-roll clips for the entire video using hyperframes behind the scenes. Now how does this work and how did I actually create it? Well I literally just went into Opus, installed the hyperframe skill, told it to create a you know b-roll section for a example video that I was recording and I asked it to follow the Excalibur light theme style right that design language in particular once it did that for that one particular video I went ahead and reviewed the video I asked it to make a couple changes there were some things I liked there were a lot of things I liked and there were a couple things that I didn't like and I asked it to tweak all of that and once I arrived at a video that I actually genuinely liked right I just told Opus in that same session to hey turn the entire thing into a workflow into a skill that we can repeat across other videos as well without sacrificing quality without making each video seem repetitive or something yeah and it did that that is exactly how i created this skill it is extremely simple and a very easy process to follow and now i literally just run that skill on every single video for context the first time i ran this entire workflow without a skill file right when i was just writing the skill in the first place it cost me like 400k or more tokens in a single session. Now with the skill, I perform the exact same task and it costs me like 100 to 150k tokens in a session to complete an entire video, which is a huge savings over there, right? I also have another skill called organized recordings. This is a very simple skill that can literally be run by a small model like Haiku. It literally just runs the phantom editor commands and phantom editor is a CLI that I built to automate my content creation process. I've talked about it a lot haiku literally runs a bunch of commands using this phantom cli under the hood that basically will take my recordings edit them finalize them write the metadata for them all of that stuff and then process them through the excalibur b-roll skill using opus to literally create a finished video that i can then review and post with very little input required from me how did i make this skill literally just having claude run through the entire process once interactively with me just by prompting Claude, then asking it to turn the entire thing into a skill. It did that and then I just run the skill. Easy. Lastly, I want to talk about my publish loom skill. This is a skill that will take a video that I record just like this one. It'll edit it through Phantom and it will publish it to my private video hosting platform which is at watch.hustondev.me and then give me the link to that video so that I can literally DM it to a client or something or a prospect and have them watch that video. It's a private video hosting platform that I built for myself and this skill will literally just take a video and publish it over there so that I don't have to go and do any of the steps manually. So now you have a clear idea of how to create some amazing cloud skills to automate virtually every aspect of your life. And so the final thing I'll say is don't limit your imagination. Literally as I'm recording this video literally last night at like I don't know fucking 1am or something Fable 5.2 dropped and I've created a couple projects with it I can you know I'll show you in a different video probably I'll record one after this and it is insane how good that model is I thought Opus 5.5 would be the peak of AGI and now we have Fable 5.2 so don't limit your imagination at all every day I'm discovering something new something crazy that these models can do and I'm a software engineer so I'm supposed to be aware of these capabilities and I'm not supposed to be surprised by them and yet I am. So don't let yourself think that your task is too complicated for the model. Judging by how smart today's models are and the fact that you're just watching this video I can probably guess that your task is pretty simple for any of the frontier models. Trust me on that. You can pretty much automate your entire business with Clod right now. And so yeah that is all. 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