CMO Builds AI‑powered Tools without Writing Code
I'm a CMO of a $100M+ ARR (boostrapped) company. And I have 7 parallel sessions of Claude Code running on my laptop right now. I've never written a line of code in my life. But in the past few months I've built: ▪️ A knowledge system that ingests all my meeting transcripts and weekly reports from ~30 team members, tracks every commitment I've made, and flags stale projects and things I'm forgetting. ▪️ A live SMM dashboard that tracks all social media activity across my team and surfaces their top-performing posts every week. ▪️ An interactive timeline of our social media promotions for Ahrefs Evolve conference, built from last year's campaign data. ▪️ A podcast prep agent: finds a guest's past interviews on YouTube, analyzes every transcript, extracts their best stories and hot takes, deduplicates across episodes, waits for my comments, and generates my prep notes. ▪️ A big update to my personal website (finally), including a podcast page that auto-fetches new episodes from YouTube. ▪️ 20+ skills and workflows for content production, competitor analysis, backlink auditing, and information management. And that's not even the full list. This isn't AI helping me "do research" or (God forbid) "automate comments on X." This is building real tools and workflows that I actually offload my everyday work to. A few folks I shared this with were surprised to see a CMO getting their hands this dirty with AI. So I thought I'd share it here too. .. What's the coolest thing you've built with AI? Drop it below.
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