Things to build
Ideas for work, private local systems, products, and creative practice. Each starts small enough to inspect before you add more data, tools, or autonomy.
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A decision memo with linked sources, a claim table, counterarguments, and explicit uncertainty.
Frontier model + web search
Use one decision you need to make this month and limit the first pass to ten sources.
A daily queue grouped by action, waiting, reference, and ignore—with drafts for the items that need replies.
Small cloud or local model
Export twenty representative messages, remove sensitive data, and test the categories before connecting anything.
Transcript, decisions, owners, due dates, risks, and a ready-to-send follow-up.
Speech-to-text + LLM
Use a recorded meeting you attended so you can judge the summary and speaker attributions.
Plain-language findings, anomaly notes, chart suggestions, and questions the data cannot answer.
Multimodal frontier model
Give it one sheet plus a data dictionary and ask it to list assumptions before conclusions.
Project library
A map of architecture, important files, setup traps, test commands, and starter issues for a new engineer.
Coding agent + repository tools
Ask it to explain one subsystem and verify every file reference before expanding scope.
Draft answers grounded only in approved help material, with a confidence signal and escalation path.
RAG + tool-capable model
Start with the ten most common support questions and a small approved answer set.
Structured obligations, dates, owners, notice requirements, and missing information for human review.
Long-context model + structured output
Use a non-sensitive sample and require exact page citations for every extracted obligation.
A workflow that checks a queue, takes low-risk actions, and stops for approval before consequential changes.
Tool-capable model + audit log
Automate read-only status gathering before authorizing writes, messages, purchases, or deletions.
Project library
Search and summarize your notes, manuals, PDFs, and archives without sending source files to a consumer chatbot.
Ollama or LM Studio + Open WebUI
Index one clearly labeled folder and test questions whose answers you already know.
A searchable guide to your preferences, recurring decisions, templates, and examples of work you like.
Local model + Markdown files
Write three short documents: how I decide, how I communicate, and what good work looks like.
Local transcription that turns rambling recordings into notes, tasks, drafts, and journal entries.
Local transcription + small LLM
Record a five-minute idea and compare the raw transcript with the edited result.
A private search layer for appliance manuals, warranties, receipts, renovation notes, and household records.
Local OCR + embeddings + LLM
Create a folder for one room or appliance category and define the metadata you need.
Project library
A consistent set of hero images, crops, backgrounds, and social variations from one approved art direction.
ComfyUI + FLUX.2
Approve one key image, then save a workflow that changes aspect ratio without changing the visual identity.
A shot list, approved keyframes, image-to-video clips, sound bed, captions, and a final edit.
ComfyUI + LTX-2 + editor
Make three shots under five seconds each and use image-to-video for control.
Organized ambiences, transitions, effects, and musical sketches matched to your projects.
Stable Audio 3 + DAW
Generate ten variations of one effect, normalize them, label the rights, and keep only the best three.
Moodboards, packaging or interface directions, critiques, and a decision log—not just a pile of images.
Frontier multimodal model + image model
Define the audience, constraints, and reasons to reject a concept before generating anything.
Before you automate
Let the system gather, classify, summarize, and recommend before it can change external state.
Have it prepare an email, update, purchase, deletion, or record change for review.
Require a human confirmation at the moment the action becomes consequential or difficult to undo.
Keep the input, selected tool, action, result, cost, and any override so failures can be investigated.