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Jul 25 •
Welcome to The Build Lab—Your Hub for AI and Automation!
I'm Dan McCoy—former healthcare CEO turned AI strategist. I've helped organizations save millions through smart AI and automation strategies, and now I want to help you build the same capabilities. This isn't another theory-heavy AI group. This is where we roll up our sleeves and actually build things with AI. What you'll find here: 📚 The Classroom → Start with "AI Automation Fundamentals" for AI tools and workflows that deliver results in days, not months 🔬 Private Practicum Forum → Exclusive space for our graduate students from the AI and automation practicum program. (Invitation only, but everyone can engage in the broader community discussions) 🎯 Weekly Deep Dives → I'll share the exact AI prompts, automation workflows, and tools we use at RocketTools to transform how businesses operate Your first mission: Drop a comment below with: Your biggest AI or automation challenge right now One task you'd love AI to handle for you What you're hoping to automate or enhance with AI in the next 30 days I read every response and often turn your challenges into our next classroom lesson. Fair warning: I believe in learning by doing with AI. Expect hands-on projects. Expect to actually build AI-powered solutions. Expect to surprise yourself with what's possible when you combine human creativity with artificial intelligence. Ready to turn your busywork into breakthrough work with AI? Let's automate the ordinary and amplify the extraordinary through intelligent automation. — Dan
Sep 30 •
Using Notion Agent to Organize Your Life
Just published: I Hired a $24/Month Employee Who Runs My Entire Business Tuesday afternoon. 47 unread emails. Three client meetings. Notes scattered everywhere. Asked my assistant to organize it. 14 minutes later: Filed, linked, summarized. The assistant? Notion AI agent. Cost: $24/month. The insight: Everyone's focused on AI creating more content. The real problem? Organizing all the content AI helps you create. You're generating 10x faster. Capturing every meeting. Researching in minutes. But where does it all go? What I cover in the article: Why "second brain" systems fail (and what finally worked) The actual bottleneck killing executive productivity in 2025 How AI agents changed the game from creation to curation The "$24 question" that reframes how you think about AI pricing My complete system for managing clients, projects, and content The bottom line: I've evaluated thousands of AI tools as a healthcare AI consultant. This is the best integration of AI into an existing platform I've seen. Not because it's powerful. Because it's indispensable. Read the full breakdown: https://blog.rockettools.io/i-hired-a-24-month-employee-who-runs-my-entire-business/ Have you solved the organization problem yet? What's working for you?
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Sep 24 •
Google just dropped a game-changer: Context URLs
I spent the last 3 hours building something in n8n that would've taken me 3 days to code from scratch. No web scraping. No API limits. No blocked requests. Here's what happened: Google quietly released Context URLs - a way to pull structured content from ANY website without traditional scraping. Think of it as giving AI agents x-ray vision for web content. In my n8n demo, I'm pulling real-time data from a sites that normally block automated requests. The Context URL feature treats it like a human browser session, but returns structured JSON that my AI agents can actually understand. The workflow I built: - Input any website URL - Google's Context API extracts the meaningful content - n8n processes it through my custom AI agent - Output: Clean, structured data ready for analysis What used to require complex proxy rotations and headless browsers now takes 3 nodes in n8n. Success rate? Not 100%. But, it still works great! No rate limits hit. No captchas triggered. No IP blocks. The real power isn't just avoiding scraping headaches - it's that Context URLs understand the semantic structure of pages. For anyone building automation workflows, this changes everything. You can now build reliable data pipelines from sites that were previously off-limits. Who else has tried Context URLs yet? What's your biggest challenge with web data extraction that this might solve?
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Sep 24 •
🚀 N8N Just Changed the Game with Data Table
Quick heads up on something that's about to save you hours (and probably thousands in infrastructure costs). N8N just released Data Tables, and I've spent the last 24 hours going deep on this. What this means for us: You can now store and manage data directly inside your N8N workflows. No external database needed. No SQL knowledge required. No separate infrastructure to maintain. Real build I just tested: Created a complete lead scoring system that: - Captures form submissions - Stores contact data in N8N's native table - Automatically enriches with API data - Scores leads based on behavior Time to build: 22 minutes. Cost: $0 extra. Technical details that excited me: - Full CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete) - REST API access to your tables - Real-time syncing - Export to any format - Query from any node in your workflow For the solopreneurs here: Test your MVP ideas without technical debt. I watched a founder yesterday replicate what would normally be a $5k/month database setup in about an hour. Challenge for the community: What's one manual process in your workflow that you could eliminate if your data lived inside your automations? Drop your use case below. Who's already playing with this? Share your experiments!
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