👋 Hey everyone, Duy here. Originally from Brussels, currently based in Cambridge, UK. A bit about me. I'm an engineer by training, and I've spent the last 11+ years at a global engineering software company, though not in one role. I started in technical support, then did about six years as a technical trainer, flying all over Europe and the Americas teaching engineers embedded systems and technical software. A lot of engineering, maths and science, basically. After that I moved into authoring self-paced online courses for our clients. So I've been around "automation" for a long time, just the engineering kind, not the n8n/Claude kind. And watching what people have built with the AI tools of the last two years honestly floored me. Here's how I got here. Last year I attended a Shadow Operator workshop with Iman Gadzhi, then joined his VIP community. The idea was that you could use AI to help smaller creators monetise the audience they already have. So I started CreatorsForge (https://creatorsforge.co/) off the back of it, and that became my first real taste of AI automation. I built a system that scrapes Instagram to find creators, runs them through n8n to analyse their niche and how they could make money from it, then drafts a huge batch of outreach emails to get them on a call. The same system also pulls together the Gamma slides, writes the HeyGen voiceover scripts, and preps the questions for the qualification call. Doing all of that is where it really clicked for me. Then I found Nate Herk's content on AI automation, fell down the whole AI agency rabbit hole, joined his AIS+ community, and went even deeper on the tools. I've built a lot with Claude Code since, I'm already working with a few small clients, and I started my own agency, Sharpr Automations (https://sharpr.cloud/). It's built on an idea I borrowed from genetic algorithms: every project sharpens the internal system we build on, so each iteration comes out a little sharper than the last. That's the whole motto really.