TPA · 01 · /RECIPES · TWELVE AUTOMATIONS · ALL BUILT AND RUNNING

The Recipe Shelf.

Twelve automations I’ve built and run myself. Each one is documented end-to-end. In the cohort you’ll pick yours based on what’s eating your week.

A recipe is a real, working system on my machine, not a theoretical pattern. Some replace subscription tools. Some replace habits. All of them are yours to keep when you build them.

The anchors are R-01 (the cohort keystone), R-06 (financial), R-08 (file hygiene), and R-12 (this site, built with Claude Design). The rest are below.

01

Foundations · the spine

The two recipes that make everything else possible. R-01 (Personal MCP) is the cohort’s first build. R-02 stacks on top of it.

R · 01FEATUREDREV · A

Personal MCP

Your private second brain. Notes, journal, project history, emails, indexed and queryable from any AI client. The spine of everything else.

We wire in your data wherever it lives. Notion, Google Drive, iCloud Notes, Apple Notes, OneNote, SharePoint, OneDrive, plain text files in a folder, whatever you’ve got. The cohort version of this build is custom to your stack.

STACK
Supabase + vector embeddings + your data sources
OWNS
You
CADENCE
Daily
BUILT IN
Weeks 2–3 (System 01 in the cohort)

This is the keystone. Everything else in the shelf works better when this is in place. In the cohort, we build it together. It’s the first system, and the foundation under everything you’ll build in weeks 4–9.

R · 02REV · A

Calendar MCP

Make your calendars AI-readable. Plan with the model, not against it. Read and write. Your AI can see what's scheduled and propose what's next.

STACK
Calendar APIs (Google / iCloud / Outlook) + MCP
OWNS
You
CADENCE
Daily
BUILT IN
Weeks 4–6
02

Context & Memory · teach AI who you are

Recipes that take you from “the AI is generic” to “the AI knows my work, my voice, my patterns.”

R · 03REV · A

Knowledge Ingester

Substacks, newsletters, articles, podcasts, auto-fed into your MCP. Read once, retrievable forever.

STACK
RSS + scraper + MCP
OWNS
You
CADENCE
Async, runs in background
BUILT IN
Weeks 4–6
R · 04REV · A

Personal Prose Context

Teach the model your voice. The way you write. Specific cadence, specific you. After this recipe, AI-drafted text in your name actually sounds like you.

STACK
Style corpus + context layer
OWNS
You
CADENCE
Calibrated weekly, used daily
BUILT IN
Weeks 4–6
R · 05REV · A

Personal Analysis & Coaching

Your patterns, your shadows, your loops, indexed. A coaching session that knows what last month's session said. Recursive memory across your own development work.

STACK
Coaching corpus + MCP
OWNS
You
CADENCE
Used in coaching sessions
BUILT IN
Weeks 4–6
03

Daily Life · run your kitchen

The recipes most people pick first. Concrete relief for things you do every day.

R · 06FEATUREDREV · A

Full Financial Automation

Replaces Quicken, Rocket Money, YNAB. Auto-categorizes transactions, surfaces what matters, runs itself in the background. Saves me about $200/month in subscription fees, and got me an extra $30k in tax refund last year.

STACK
Tiller (sync) → Sheets (source of truth) → Hermes (local agent) → MCP (context) → Telegram (review queue)
OWNS
You
CADENCE
Daily auto-run, weekly review
BUILT IN
Weeks 4–6 (one of three featured options for System 02)
R · 07REV · A

Email Automation

Triage, draft, file, surface. Stop letting your inbox run your morning. The agent reads, sorts into four buckets, and drafts replies for the ones that need them.

STACK
Gmail / Outlook API + agent + MCP
OWNS
You
CADENCE
Hands-off, runs at 7:30 AM
BUILT IN
Weeks 4–6
R · 08FEATUREDREV · A

File Hygiene

Inbox, Google Drive, desktop, Downloads, the works. Sorted by an agent that knows your work. Local clutter and cloud clutter, both. Never think about organization again.

STACK
Local agent + cloud APIs + MCP
OWNS
You
CADENCE
Weekly auto-run
BUILT IN
Weeks 4–6 (one of three featured options for System 02)
R · 09REV · A

Phone Call / Chatbot Agent

Stop spending time on dumb phone calls and dumber chatbots. Send an agent. It calls the airline, sits on hold, navigates the menu, and brings you the answer.

STACK
Voice agent + scripting layer
OWNS
You
CADENCE
As needed
BUILT IN
Weeks 4–6
R · 10REV · A

Automation Dashboard

A control plane for your stack. See everything running. Pause anything. One screen, all systems visible.

STACK
Local web app + agent registry
OWNS
You
CADENCE
Daily check
BUILT IN
Weeks 4–6
04

Outward Facing · you in the world

For when you're ready to put something into the world that you built yourself.

R · 11REV · A

Schedule & Automate Posting

Write once. Schedule across. Post on your terms, not in someone else's UI.

STACK
Social APIs + scheduler + your prose layer
OWNS
You
CADENCE
Scheduled, hands-off
BUILT IN
Weeks 4–6
R · 12FEATUREDREV · A

Personal Website

A site like this one. Designed, built, shipped by you. This page is the proof. I built it myself with Claude as co-designer in a weekend.You’ll learn to do the same.

STACK
Whatever fits, usually static site + Claude Design / Code
OWNS
You
CADENCE
Built once, edited as needed
BUILT IN
Weeks 4–6 (one of three featured options for System 02)

These are the recipes today. As I build new ones, they get added to the shelf. Cohort participants get access to whatever’s on the shelf when they show up, and contribute new ones back to it as they build.

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