@Aaron Quiroz been crushing it as our Community Triage Lead. Inbound across Instagram, Skool, and Discord has gotten genuinely out of hand, and Aaron stepped in and built real order out of the chaos. He's fast, he's thoughtful, and he actually reads what you send before responding. That matters Going forward, if you're trying to reach me about work, partnerships, projects, or anything that needs a real conversation, please send it to Aaron first. He has visibility into my calendar and priorities, and he'll get things routed correctly. If it needs me, I'll be there. If someone else on the team can handle it faster, even better. I'm still around and still reading. This just makes sure your message actually gets seen and answered instead of buried under hundreds of others. Thanks for rolling with the change. And seriously, thank you Aaron.

I just landed a meeting that feels both terrifying and incredibly exciting. Tomorrow, I’m sitting down with the Head of AI and Implementation for the entire global group I work for—a corporation with 14,000 employees across 72 countries. The Backstory If you’ve followed my previous posts, you know I’ve been fighting "manual hell" in our D365 F&O system using Claude Code and Playwright. Since those posts, I’ve evolved the concept. It’s no longer just a one-off script; it’s a scalable framework that can handle almost any repetitive task in D365. The Bold Email Yesterday, I took a chance and sent a direct email to the Head of AI: "I was wondering if we will be able to use Claude Code in the near future? We have Copilot, but what about the rest? For me, this is about automating the boring, repetitive tasks in finance that a monkey could do." His response came today: "We are procuring Claude Code for developers now... Let’s have a short call. My calendar is open." The "Finance Guy" Advantage My boss, who has been with the company for 15 years, is skeptical. Her experience is that "high-level" AI projects rarely trickle down to the people doing the actual work. Corporate roadmaps are often too busy with the big picture to notice the daily grind. But that’s my edge. I’m not an AI specialist looking for a problem to solve. I’m a Finance Manager who is the problem. I have the domain insight they lack. I know exactly where the work hurts because I’m the one doing it. The central AI team has a roadmap to follow, but they aren't necessarily looking at the daily operations at the bottom of the ladder. The Goal: 4 Days down to 1 Hour The project I’m presenting tomorrow is a massive upgrade of my previous work. I’m aiming to take a task that currently takes 3 to 4 days of manual labor and cut it down to 1 hour. It’s 100x more precise than my first version, and because our processes are standardized, it’s scalable across all 72 countries. I’m heading into this meeting with the support of my boss and the time to make it happen.

I’m 99% in goal with my private project: www.thewheelofclarity.com. This is something I’ve dreamed of for a long time—writing an e-book based on the teachings of a mentor. The original material was difficult to work with; it felt too spiritual and wasn't grounded enough for most people to actually use. I had a vision of making it simple and relatable, but getting there has been a long journey of trial and error. The Battle with "AI-Speak" I’ve tried to create this book several times. If you saw the first drafts and compared them to where I am today, you wouldn't believe it was the same book. The first many versions were done in ChatGPT, but I almost gave up several times. No matter how much we tried to improve it, the AI couldn't stay on track across all the chapters. I eventually switched to Gemini, and that’s where the version I have today finally took shape. But then I hit a wall with the "AI mindset." When I started looking at marketing, the AI kept insisting the target audience should be "high achievers" and "fast-paced CEOs." But that’s not what this book is. It’s for everyone—from stay-at-home parents to office workers to CEOs. It’s about understanding why certain patterns repeat in your life and how to change them. I ended up going through the book chapter by chapter to make it more human and accessible. Even after I thought I was done and created an audiobook version using ElevenLabs, I could still hear too much "AI" in it. It used words and phrasing that real people just don't use. I spent many nights listening to every single section, manually stripping out the "AI-isms" until it felt like my own. Building the Site with Claude Code The audiobook idea actually came from a colleague. I used ElevenLabs to find the right voice, and while you can still tell it’s AI, I’m proud of the voice I created and I’m sticking with it. For the website, I saw a video by Jake about folder structures in Claude Code. It sparked my curiosity, and even though I didn't fully understand the structure yet, I just jumped in. We built the site www.thewheelofclarity.com slavishly from top to bottom. We focused on one section at a time—brand voice, colors, and layout—until I was satisfied. Once the foundation was there, I added the technical side, like heatmaps and tracking tags, to help me optimize it later.

If any of you have his twitter/linked in, totally comment and tell him to respond to my email. Want him to come chat with all of us and I think he would be happy to just need him to get eyes on, as someone who gets thousands of emails a day I would not be surprised if he never sees it even if it is valuable.

If you are curious what my late nights look like, its staying up till 2 Am to post videos like this. Twelve minutes on thinking machines. Descartes, Lovelace, Turing, Searle's Chinese Room, and why the AI consciousness argument we're having right now is already four hundred years old. Animations built with my automation structure. Script and content is all me though. Going to decide where this fits in the courses and maybe make a text companion. A new style I may keep for a genre of future videos if people like it. Let me know what lands.