My Journey
Every article here documents one real project — the problem, how it got built, what went wrong, and what you could reuse.
Claude Is My QuickBooks Data-Entry Clerk
Every month I dreaded manually typing my Wells Fargo Business Visa statement into QuickBooks Desktop, line by line. Now Claude reads the PDF and builds the QuickBooks import file for me — including catching its own mistake when a formatting quirk made QuickBooks choke.
Claude is the Perfect PC Cleaner
My seven-year-old laptop was lagging and the fan wouldn't quit. Everyone — including a $35 McAfee upsell — said it was old and overheating. Claude found the real culprit: seven duplicate registry entries I never would have guessed.
From Idea to Website in 4 Hours
I'm not a programmer — I barely passed Fortran in college. But I described a website to Claude and watched it go live in a single afternoon: search, filters, a blog, a custom domain. Here's exactly how it went, snags and all. Total out-of-pocket cost: $11.
Healthcare Organizations Adopting Artificial Intelligence
A practical framework for evaluating which AI vendors a HIPAA covered entity can lawfully deploy — what a Business Associate Agreement must include, the litigation risks of skipping one, and a vendor compliance scorecard you can use today.
Legal Organizations Adopting Artificial Intelligence
What U.S. v. Heppner means for attorneys using AI, the Kovel doctrine workaround that can preserve privilege, and the Data Processing Addendum terms a legal AI vendor must sign before it ever touches client data.