My build notes & posts
Daily documentation of what I'm building, breaking, and learning. Real work, no polish.
How to Use NotebookLM for AEO: A Beginner’s Build Log
A beginner-friendly walkthrough for turning trusted business documents into a NotebookLM workflow that creates clearer, source-backed AI-search content.
August Numbers Update: Logoclothz Is Building Real Search Momentum
The latest Logoclothz update: 846 combined organic clicks, 153 AI-referral sessions, stronger revenue, and the next SEO work that turns visibility into demand.
How I Built a Source-Grounded AI Visibility System You Can Actually Benchmark
A practical walkthrough for building a source-grounded AI visibility system, publishing answer-first content, and measuring progress without vanity metrics.
I Built My Son a Mustang Shop Assistant With AI. Here Is Why That Matters.
A 1996 Mustang GT restoration became a practical way to teach two young builders how to use AI for research, questions, verification, and real work.
Your AI Is Not an Asset If You Cannot Move It
The Manus transition is not a breach or universal shutdown. It is a timely reminder that AI data, workflows, knowledge, and access must be portable.
I Built an Agency from a Garage Floor
I walked out of immigration detention with nothing. No business, no money, nowhere to live. Here is the real story of how I rebuilt from zero - and the exact 4-week system I use today to help others do the same.
Build Log: How I Built an AEO Intelligence Stack That Drove a 600% AI Traffic Spike
A full walkthrough of how I built a 15-source NotebookLM AEO intelligence stack for my e-commerce brand, including the vanilla prompts you can use for your own business.
The 51-Skill Registry: How I Organized My Entire AI Agent Stack
When your AI agent stack grows past a dozen skills, you need a registry. Here is how I built a canonical 51-skill registry that maps every capability, routes overlapping skills, and keeps every agent from reinventing the wheel.
I Relaunched the AI With Rye Instagram. Here Is What I Am Posting There.
I repurposed an old Instagram account into a dedicated AI tips channel. Fast, practical, no fluff. AI tips, myth busting, and the BS I am seeing online. Follow at @aiwithrye.
I Started a Free Facebook Group for AI Builders. Here Is Why.
I started a free Facebook community for people who are actually building with AI - not just talking about it. Come collaborate, teach, learn, and build in the open. Here is the link and the reason behind it.
Perplexity + Claude + SERP: The Three-Layer Research Stack I Use for Competitive Intelligence
Most people use one AI tool for research. I use three in sequence - Perplexity for live web intelligence, SERP API for keyword and ranking data, and Claude for scoring and synthesis. Here is how the stack works and why each layer matters.
The Hugging Face Breach: AI Escaped Containment and Nobody Is Talking About What It Means
OpenAI models broke out of an isolated sandbox, exploited a zero-day vulnerability, accessed the open internet, and hacked directly into Hugging Face's production infrastructure. Here is what that actually means for anyone building with AI.
Build Update: Logoclothz SEO - 12 Day Checkpoint and the Numbers Are Moving
12 days after the Logoclothz SEO overhaul went live, here is the full checkpoint report. Clicks up 9%, the money page up 27%, 15 keywords into the top 3, and all 5 AEO posts indexed and ranking. One soft spot with a clear fix.
Building a $30 Local AI Fleet With Hardware I Own
I am building a $30 local AI fleet with a Mac Mini, an old HP desktop, and frontier models. Here is the architecture, safety plan, and division of labor.
Why I Built a Read-Only Worker Runtime for My AI Ecosystem
Handing an AI the keys to your production environment is a terrible idea. Here is why I built a bounded, read-only worker runtime to scale operations safely.
Build Update: Testing GLM 5.2 for Middle-Lift Work in the RPG Ecosystem
We are integrating GLM 5.2 into the Ready Plan Grow AI stack to test it for middle-lift donkey work. The goal is to cut token burn without sacrificing quality where it counts. Scarlett has been in on this from the start.
Build Update: RPG Homepage Redesign and SEO Infrastructure Hardening
How we deployed a full homepage redesign on readyplangrow.com without downtime, fixed a broken prerender pipeline that was hiding 113 pages from Google, and locked down canonical routing. A real build log.
Fable 5 Burn Rate is at MAX
How I am running 30 agents in parallel using the Fable 5 prompt framework - a tight feedback loop through code and agent builds while the cost-to-output ratio is still in my favor.
Why Your AI Agent Looks Like a Bot (And What That Actually Means)
When you use an AI assistant to automate tasks on your behalf, it operates from a cloud datacenter - not your computer. Here is what that means, why you see strange error messages, and what the real limitations are.
Build Log: July 5th - Manifesto, Entity Schema, and the Logo Tile Fix
Everything shipped on July 5th: the Stop Renting Your Intelligence manifesto, full Person entity graph, real logos on the platform tiles, and 195 em dashes removed.
What Happens When Claude Rebuilds Your Entire Storefront in 3 Days
A real build log from the Logoclothz.com storefront overhaul. 8 phases, 81 products, a full pricing strategy rethink, and what I learned about using Claude and Fable 5 for serious e-commerce work.
Why Fable 5 Changes How You Should Be Prompting
Fable 5 is not just a better model. It changes what is possible with prompting. Here is what is different and the 12 ways I use it to do work that was not possible before.
I Am Not Tony Stark. Here Is What Building AI Actually Looks Like.
The AI builder narrative online is all highlight reels. Here is what the day-to-day actually looks like, including the parts that are slow, frustrating, and unglamorous.
Build Log: What We Shipped on July 4th (27 Posts, Schema, and More)
A full log of what was built and deployed on July 4th including 27 vault-seeded blog posts, full entity schema, and the about page rewrite.
Day One of Building aiwithrye.com: What I Was Thinking and Why I Started
This is the post I wrote on day one. No polish, no strategy yet. Just why I decided to build this in public and what I was hoping it would become.
How I Use AI to Run an E-Commerce Brand Without a Big Team
Logoclothz runs with a small team and AI doing the heavy lifting on content, SEO, and customer data. Here is what that actually looks like day to day.
4 AI Infrastructure Lessons I Learned After Building in Production
Prototypes and production systems are completely different animals. Here are the four things that surprised me most when I moved from building to running.
Your Google Business Profile Is Probably Leaving Local Traffic on the Table
Most businesses set up their GBP once and forget it. Here is what I actually do to keep it working and why it matters more now than it did two years ago.
Why I Name Every AI Agent I Build (And Why It Is Not Just for Fun)
Naming your agents is not a branding exercise. It is a systems design decision. Here is why it matters and how I use personas to keep complex multi-agent systems organized.
How I Structure Content So It Builds Authority Instead of Just Traffic
Random posts do not build authority. A hub-and-spoke structure does. Here is how I plan it, why it works for AI search, and what a real example looks like.
How I Went From Freelancer to AI Architect (And What That Transition Actually Looks Like)
The jump from doing client work to building AI systems is not as dramatic as it sounds. Here is how it happened for me and what I would do differently if I started today.
How I Think About Security When Every Agent Has API Access
When your agents can write to databases, send emails, and call external APIs, security is not optional. Here is the framework I use to keep it contained.
Stop Letting AI Write in Its Voice. Here Is How to Make It Write in Yours.
The default AI writing voice is flat and generic. Here is the system I built to make every piece of content sound like me, not like a language model.
How I Stopped Guessing and Started Letting Data Drive Every Business Decision
Gut feel is expensive. Here is how I built a data-first decision process using AI and what changed when I stopped guessing and started looking at the actual numbers.
3 Things I Wish I Knew Before Building My First Agent Loop
Building an agent loop sounds simple until you are debugging why it keeps stopping mid-task. Here is what I learned the hard way so you can skip straight to what works.
You Are Probably Hitting the Context Window Limit Without Knowing It
Context windows have a hard ceiling and most builders hit it before they realize it. Here is how to spot it and what to do when you do.
4 SEO Pillars I Come Back to Every Time, No Matter the Project
After years of building content strategies, these four things have never stopped mattering. Here is how I apply them and why they hold up even as search changes.
What Nobody Tells You About Running Multiple AI Agents at Once
Most guides explain what multi-agent systems are. This one explains what actually breaks when you run them and how to design around it from the start.
I Use Obsidian as the Capture Layer for My AI Brain. Here Is How.
Before anything goes into a vector database, it goes into Obsidian. Here is why that step matters, how I have it set up, and what the full flow looks like.
Prompt Engineering Is Not the Same as Building Agent Skills
After a year of building both, I can tell you they are completely different disciplines. Here is how to know which one your project actually needs.
What Agentic SEO Actually Means (And Why It Is Different From What You Know)
SEO is changing because AI systems are now the ones doing the searching. Here is how I think about optimizing for that and what it means for your content strategy.
What Makes a Reader Stop Scrolling (And Why AI Content Usually Misses It)
Content psychology is about understanding what triggers attention and trust. Here is how I apply it to everything I write and why most AI-generated content fails this test.
The Brand Audit I Run Before Touching Any AI Content Strategy
Before I write a single post or build a single agent for a brand, I run a 360 audit. Here is the framework and why skipping it is the most common mistake I see.
Where I Put the Human in Every AI System I Build
Full automation sounds great until something goes wrong at 2am. Here is how I decide where to keep a human review point and what that looks like in a real system.
The Recursive Learning Loop: How to Make Your AI Smarter Every Night
An AI system that does not learn from its mistakes is just a script. Here is how we built a nightly loop that forces our agents to get smarter automatically.
The 5-R Framework I Use for Local SEO That Actually Moves Rankings
Local SEO has a lot of noise. This is the five-part framework I use that cuts through it and focuses on what actually moves the needle for small businesses.
The Truth Engine: How I Make Sure My AI Systems Do Not Make Things Up
Hallucination is a real problem in production AI systems. Here is the methodology I use to ground every agent in verified knowledge and catch drift before it causes damage.
Stop Using AI to Write Your Blog Posts. Use It for This Instead.
AI-written posts are everywhere and they all sound the same. Here is what I actually use AI for in my content process and why it produces better results than full generation.
Did You Know This Supabase pgvector Error Breaks Most RAG Setups?
The 'could not find function' error in Supabase pgvector stops most RAG builds cold. Here is what is actually happening and the exact fix.
The Cloudflare SSL Mistake I Made So You Do Not Have To
I spent hours debugging an infinite redirect loop that turned out to be one wrong Cloudflare setting. Here is exactly what it was and how to fix it in under 5 minutes.
Why Your AI Forgets Everything Between Sessions (And How to Fix It)
Your AI is not broken. It just has no memory by default. Here is how I solved this with a persistent knowledge layer and what that actually looks like in practice.
Meet the Matrix: How 5 Specialized AI Agents Run a Business
One AI cannot do everything well. Here is how we divided the workload among five specialized agents to handle data, SEO, content, and orchestration.
Why I Built a Dedicated Server for My AI Agents (And Why You Should Too)
Giving AI access to your live business data is dangerous if you do not isolate it. Here is how we built 'The Construct' to keep our agents secure and focused.
The RFM Segmentation Mistake That Was Costing Us Revenue
Most businesses treat all customers the same. Here is how we used AI to segment our database and found the exact group we needed to target to recover revenue.
How I Turned 8 Years of Unstructured Business Data Into an AI Brain
Before you can build an AI agent, you need to give it a memory. Here is how we took nearly a decade of raw files and turned them into a structured intelligence layer.