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The Labs

I tried it. Here's what happened.

Every entry here is a real experiment: a question I actually had, a build I actually did, and the honest result — including the ones where the honest result was "not yet." This page grows as the work happens. That's the point.

A phone on a kitchen counter at dawn showing a plain text briefing beside a steaming mug

Running daily since March

Can AI run my morning briefing?

I wanted the first ten minutes of my day back. Not a dashboard — a briefing, the way a chief of staff would give it. Here's the build, and the three times it embarrassed me.

What actually happened Works, with a caveat. It's excellent at gathering and terrible at judging. I stopped asking it what mattered and started telling it what mattered.

→ The Chief of Staff build is in the LifeQuest dev track

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A home embroidery machine mid-stitch with thread spools and finished caps in a converted garage

Real client · shipped

Can AI help a home business launch online?

Aidan runs an embroidery business out of a garage. No website, no listings, a phone full of photos. We gave it eleven days and whatever AI could honestly do.

What actually happened Live storefront, product photography cleaned up, descriptions written, and — the part nobody talks about — a pricing model she understood well enough to defend.

→ This is the kind of work GrowthPoint does

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Handwritten index cards pinned to a corkboard in branching columns with hand-drawn arrows

In progress

Can AI turn one article into a class, a newsletter, and a post?

One piece of real thinking, four places it needs to go. I've been testing whether the split can be automated without the output going flat and generic.

What actually happened Halfway. The structure transfers cleanly. The voice does not — every draft needs a human pass, and I've stopped pretending otherwise.

→ The workflow is taught in the LifeQuest content track

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The hands of an older man on a laptop keyboard beside an underlined printed tutorial

Ongoing · month 7

Can a beginner really build an app with AI?

I'm a thirty-year technologist who had never shipped an app. I decided to find out in public whether the promise is real or a demo trick.

What actually happened Real — and harder than advertised. I shipped. I also spent two weeks stuck on something a junior dev would've solved in an hour. Both things are true.

→ The whole journey became the LifeQuest dev track

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The loop

Do itDocument itTeach itProductize it

A lab that works becomes a class. A class that works becomes a product. A lab that fails becomes the most useful thing I write all month.

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