WEEK 7 COMP⚙️ THE OPERATOR — RESULTS

Jake Van Clief

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WEEK 7 COMP⚙️ THE OPERATOR — RESULTS

(and a small change to how we run these)

Hello everyone!! 👋

First, the honest bit. This one is landing later than Monday, and on purpose.

Two things got us here.

One, a lot more of you are submitting now. If I am going to really sit with every entry and give it a proper look, a weekend is not enough.

This round I went through all of them, watched the videos, opened the repos, the full pass. That takes time and I would rather do it right than rush it.

Two, I could feel a few of you running hot. Weekly is a sprint, and burnout was starting to creep in for some.

So we are moving to bi-weekly.

More room to build, more room to breathe, and the time for me to actually review the work the way it deserves.

🎥 Quick word on the videos. They were a step up this round. Some of the animated walkthroughs and live demos were a genuine pleasure to watch, and yes, I weigh them. A clean demo that shows the thing actually working makes a real difference. However I don't want that to ALWAYS be a requirement.

Also you will notice the Heavy hitters that you usually see up here are not currently, some posted late and I decided to let the new entries and first timers also have a chance as well! But certainly, check the original post as every submission has something for you to learn from : 💰 Competition 7

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🛠️ A FEW THAT STOOD OUT (in no order, and if you didn't make it, it doesn't mean yours wasn't great)

The Pipeline Operator —

@Jayden Forshee

Runs a whole sales pipeline. Paste a lead and it grades it, writes the outreach, and moves the card itself. The live board where you watch cards move on their own, sat right next to a normal chatbot, was one of the clearest ways anyone has shown what an operator actually is. https://github.com/griffainai/studio-pipeline-operator

Board: https://pipeline-operator.vercel.app/board

job-fit —

@Jodi Paige-Lee

a job posting and your resume and it tells you whether to apply, where you would get screened out, and what to fix before you do. The neat part is the model never picks the number, the code does, so the same inputs always give the same answer. Comes with a 90-second check anyone can run themselves.

https://github.com/jmarielee/job-fit

Live: https://jmarielee.github.io/job-fit/

Subscription Auditor —

@Sunny Singh

Paste your subscriptions and it tells you what to keep, downgrade, or cancel, with the reason it made each call and a savings total. Simple, useful, and you can point it at anyone's setup by editing one table.

Everybody has this problem. https://github.com/ms-codehorizon/subscription-auditor

Porter —

@Arjen Stet

Reads a project manager's inbox and handles each email end to end. Files it, replies, makes the right card, or flags the few that are really yours. It learns from your corrections and hands you a tidy dashboard instead of a wall of unread mail. https://github.com/astetic-dev/porter-intake-operator

They also have been building some AMAZING other projects out side of this so props for the out put seriously.

Walkthrough: https://youtu.be/V3rkvH7QL6w

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🏆 THE WINNER

Nightwatch —

@Gabriel Azoulay

On-call alert triage for a small team with no big tooling budget. Drop in an alert and it makes one call, page, ticket, suppress, or flag, and drafts the message for you.

What put it over the top is that the judgment lives in the folder, not in Gabriel's head. It scores on real business impact instead of whatever the alert shouts loudest, so the one customer paying you eighty grand a year outranks a cosmetic warning every time. And before he shipped it, he tested it cold on a fresh model with three alerts it had never seen. It called all three the way he would have. That is the whole assignment, done clean.

He also shipped a second one, Claimwise, a first-pass claims adjuster running the same discipline in a totally different domain. Range like that is useful in this day in age, and it stood out.

Nightwatch: https://github.com/NFTYoginis/nightwatch

Live: https://nftyoginis.github.io/nightwatch

Claimwise: https://github.com/NFTYoginis/claimwise

🎟️ Gabriel, your seat in The Lyceum is yours. See you in there.

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🎖️ HONORABLE MENTIONS,

ReviewedIt — Mark Gubuan Makes the call on manual journal entries for finance teams. Approve, revise, hold, or escalate, with the standard it is citing right there. Already running inside a real company. https://github.com/mgubuan/ReviewedIt

SentinelRx — Xavier Vincent Scan an over-the-counter medicine label and it tells a caregiver whether it is safe to give, safe with a timing gap, a hard no, or a call-the-pharmacist. Real safety data sitting behind every answer. https://github.com/Xavier-XVI/SentinelRx

Ledgerline — Carla Bosteder Handles replies to payment reminders. Works out who is paying, who is disputing, who needs a plan, and routes it without bugging the owner. First time entering, and she came in with a working app on top of it. Loved to see that. https://github.com/smiln32/Ledgerline

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🚀 ONE LAST THING

That is four specialists now for your portfolio.

Coach, Researcher, Operator, and this set, all sitting together as proof of range you can link from anywhere.

And here is the bigger picture.

The platform we have been building, the one where you license and rent your own workflows out to other companies on your own terms, is getting close.

We sat down with a few investors today who want to back a larger version of it for all of you.

That is genuinely exciting.

I am also taking it slow. I care a great deal about who we partner with on this, because it is your work and your livelihood, and I will not hand that to the wrong people just to move faster.