Jose Palacios

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

For years the wall was not my ideas. It was not having the skill to build them.

I am not a developer. AI is. So I hand it my wildest "is this even possible" idea and get the answer in about a minute, with the steps.

The limit now is how far I can imagine.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

Most AI gives you more to read. The build worth paying for gives you a decision.

This week: AI worked out whether our inventory fits the space, and framed a design choice the owner could pick in seconds.

Not output to decode. A call you can make.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

I cancelled an app I was paying for and built my own. It works the way I operate, captures what I decide matters, and my data stays on my machine, not their servers. When you build instead of rent, the tool fits your work and you own it all. That's what I build.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

I used to open seven spreadsheet tabs to check how my operation was doing.

Now it's one app, organized the way I think, with notes that give my AI the context behind the numbers.

Not generic AI. AI that knows my business.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

Somewhere in your company, the same report gets rebuilt by hand every morning.

I had my AI build the thing that kills it. A script that pulls the numbers and writes them to the dashboard on its own, before anyone clocks in.

The build I'd set up for your team.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

I didn't buy a tool to audit my carrier invoices for overcharges. I built one.

It found the carriers were billing right. The miss was my own warehouse not logging box sizes.

A refund saves you once. Fixing that saves every shipment.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

A partner asked me for two months of order data. I didn't open a spreadsheet.

My AI turned the request into columns and rows and pulled it straight from our order system's API.

When your team gets a request like that, do you do it by hand, or does something do it for you?

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

My morning briefing told me 4 things on my list had been overdue for 40 days. I'd forgotten 2 of them.

Most briefings show your calendar. The one I built shows what you're avoiding, and for how long.

What's the oldest item on yours?

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

Most AI takes notes. Mine has skills.

Three different meetings this week. My meeting-prep skill drafted all three in the same shape, first pass. Because the format is in the procedure, not a chat note.

I do this for businesses on the side. DM me.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

While I read my book, my AI compared cleaning services on insurance, bonding, real reviews, price. An hour of Google and Yelp work, done in a couple of minutes of my attention. The leverage isn't generating more, it's taking back the hour I'd have spent. #ClaudeCode

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

A checkout test broke shipping for 3 days. Numbers, sheet, card, leadership loop-in usually take hours across the day. Yesterday they bundled into one chair with AI. What does your incident response loop look like: stages or bundled?

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

I didn't want 20 apps to check on me each morning. So I'm building one brief: body data + my journal, synthesized at 7:15. Advice gets specific, fast. One place that knows your head AND your body.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

Managers don't have one inbox. They have six: Slack, project boards, email, calls, texts, and tasks stacked on tasks.

AI lets you take on more. More also means more to track.

The win isn't AI that produces. It's AI that keeps all of it in your head.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

Most AI demos are about producing. One of the biggest gains is finding what you already produced. Found a number I wrote down 6 months ago in seconds today. If you've ever spent 30 min hunting for one, this is the use case.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

AI that can read a report is a tool. AI that knows why March and November look different in my operation is a thinking partner.

Every tab I build is less about the chart and more about teaching my AI what my business actually means.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

Most AI is generic. I'm building mine to know my business.

Last night I started a local data layer on my laptop. Years of scattered ops spreadsheets moving into one place my AI can read.

The point isn't the data. It's the context around the data.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

AI compressed a half-day forecasting call into 20 minutes this morning.

The slow part of operations was never the analysis. It was the cross-referencing in between.

Now I get more time on the part I actually enjoy: coming up with ideas worth pursuing.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

We went 17 versions deep. I've never written code before. My team clocked in on it this morning.

#AI #Operations

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

My warehouse team was logging hours in a spreadsheet. People kept breaking formulas. Last night I sat down with AI and built them a real web app. PIN login, task switching, admin panel, corrections flow.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

Problem to working prototype in one afternoon.

The fix wasn't better training. It was removing the friction that made the old process fail.

#Operations #AI

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

My warehouse team kept typing timestamps manually instead of using the hotkeys we set up. Entries off by hours. Others just missing.

Every morning started with me chasing yesterday instead of planning today.

[Jose Palacios @josepx95]

So I asked AI to mock up three fixes. Not a list of ideas. Actual visual mockups I could compare side by side.

Winner: a web form that auto-populates the spreadsheet. No hotkeys to remember. Just tap and go.