This week I asked my own assistant to tell me everything it could do. For the first time, it gave me the whole answer. Until now it only named about half, so most of what it can do stayed hidden, even from me. That assistant is MakerOS, a private AI assistant for one maker business. It runs on your own computer, under your own Claude subscription, with no third-party server in between: your files and settings stay on your machine. You talk to it in plain sentences. Once you have answered its setup interview, it knows your name, your brand, your voice and your limits, and reads that back every time. A day with it looks something like this. "Give me my morning brief." Your calendar and your inbox, read back with the day's top priority named. "I just finished this piece, give me a caption." One sentence in, and a caption with hook options, a Reel voiceover and a Story prompt comes back. "Help me price this piece." It asks for materials, time and overheads, one at a time, then hands back a breakdown and a suggested price. "Draft my returns policy." A first-draft UK returns policy, built around your own return window, ready for a solicitor to check. It will not send an email, post publicly, spend money on an image, touch your calendar, or delete a file, without asking you first. Day-to-day housekeeping no longer stops to check. Anything that spends or publishes always does. It drafts and it queues. You press the button. This is v1.26.0. It is the release that finally gives you the real answer to what it can do, organised by outcome rather than a partial list. It also checks, on a new machine, for the three things most often missing, and tells you exactly what to fix if one is not there. And a new brand colour palette is now tested against six readability checks before it is used, not just generated and handed over. MakerOS lives in the premium classroom here, as a download. You need the Claude desktop app and your own Claude subscription. Install is one command, then a setup interview: twenty to thirty minutes if you answer everything, nearer ten on the safe defaults. If you want to see what it does with your own brand behind it, that is where to start: https://www.hamedarab.academy/makeros

FreeFlow is my free dictation app for Windows 11, built for jewellers, makers and anyone else on Windows who types all day: emails, listings, quotes, prompts to Claude or ChatGPT. Hold Alt+1 in any app and speak. Release, and the cleaned text lands wherever you were typing, in about two seconds, no separate window, no copy and paste. v2.4.0's one change: the floating gadget is gone by default, replaced by Ghost, a small pill that appears beside your cursor while you dictate and fades once the text is pasted. My own logs made the case for it: 57 days, 2,847 dictations, and the old gadget hidden almost every time I opened it. The gadget is still there, one click away in the tray. Install: 1. Download FreeFlow-Setup.exe from GitHub. 2. Run it. 3. Paste in a free Groq API key when it asks. Windows will flag the installer with a SmartScreen warning because it isn't code-signed yet: that's expected, click More info then Run anyway. The Groq key is free at console.groq.com, no card needed, and covers ordinary daily use on its own. Everything, including screenshots and the source: https://hamedarab.academy/freeflow What do you dictate most, or which app would you most want FreeFlow to behave differently in?