This week I finally built something I've wanted for years: one place that runs my entire business, and Claude Code operates it. Background: I run a few companies here in South Africa, an IT firm, a software dev company, a marketing agency, and a tech holding with a handful of SaaS products. For 20 years all of that lived in my head and in scattered folders. No single tool ever fit how I actually work. So I stopped looking for a tool and built my own operating system. Plain folders and markdown files, driven by Claude Code. What's inside it now: - Every business has its own home, with Marketing, Sales, Product/Dev and Operations/Finance sections - A full architecture map: who owns what, the % splits, the legal structure, and where I want it to go - My personal brand as its own space (LinkedIn, YouTube, X, and my Skool communities, this one included) - It knows every web app my dev team has built, and how to run and deploy each one - It references every other Claude project I've built this year, so nothing ever starts from scratch Here's the part that matters for this community: I didn't fill in a template. I told Claude Code how my business actually works, and it structured itself around me. When I had ownership wrong, I corrected it once and it fixed it everywhere. I dropped a channel I don't use, it adjusted. I added my communities, done in seconds. That's the difference. You're not learning someone else's system. You're building your own that understands your business better than anything you can buy, with an agent that can actually act inside it. If you've been on the fence about Claude Code, this is your sign. It stops being a chatbot the moment you start treating it like an operator. This is just the start of what I'm personalising. I'm going to record a full walkthrough showing exactly how I built it, step by step, and I'll drop it here when it's ready. Happy to answer anything in the comments.

Nate likes to always work in VS Code. What advantage would that have over using the desktop app? I learned in VS Code, and yes, it's a great learning experience, but once the desktop app came along it's so much cleaner. I guess my main advantage in the desktop app is that you can rename a chat and chats are organized under projects. When using VS Code you can't rename the chats or organize them at all really. What are the advantages of sticking with VS Code even after the desktop app came out? (Note, I use Codex but pretty much the same as Claude in VS Code and desktop versions I think.)

Stop learning n8n in 2026. Seriously. If you’re still trying to learn n8n in 2026, you might be focusing on the wrong thing. In this video, I explain why you should stop learning n8n in 2026 and what you should learn instead. If you’re thinking about learning n8n in 2026, watch this first. I break down why some creators say to stop learning n8n in 2026, what the better alternative is, and how you can stay ahead by learning the right automation skills instead. Enjoy!

In this video I walk through Paperclip, a free open-source tool that lets you build and run an entire company with AI agents. I set up a brand new company from scratch, show how the CEO agent hires engineers and delegates tasks, and break down how heartbeats, skills, routines, and budgets all work together. Whether you want to start a fully AI-run company or just automate a piece of your existing business, this covers everything you need to get going.