After Notion's developer platform launch, Workers and Dashboards make a credible BI stack for most small teams. Why it's now my default recommendation, and where the warehouse-plus-Tableau setup still has the edge.
Five small, purpose-built apps I vibe-coded to replace SaaS tools, fix the missing 10% of off-the-shelf platforms, and stop the recurring bills.
Five layers — files, plugins, sub-agents, memory, and scheduled tasks — that turn Claude Cowork from a chatbot into the coworker running ops before you've had coffee.
We built a contact enrichment pipeline for our Notion CRM using Apollo.io, HarvestAPI via Apify, and Zapier — for roughly $0–5/month. Here's the full architecture, the cost breakdown, and why CRM vendors charging $2–3K/year for the same capability is a broken model.
Lessons from building multi-turn AI agents across Zapier Agents, Notion Custom Agents, and Relevance AI — covering context window management, system prompt bloat, sub-agent trade-offs, and context rot.
How reusable AI skills across Claude, Notion, and Linear have replaced prompt engineering as the highest-leverage way to make AI tools actually useful.
