Permission to Build
Learn enough to build it, test it, and keep it alive.
Plain-English lessons for people who ask the obvious questions experts skip. We use one product from blank page to production instead of pretending a pile of prompts is a course.
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Build Your First Useful AI Automation
Build one real lead intake and routing app from a blank idea to a deployed system with planning, context, test cases, token budgets, logs, alerts, retries, privacy controls, and a rollback plan.
- One complete lead intake and routing product
- Deterministic tests plus honest AI evaluation
- Logs, alerts, privacy controls, and rollback
The product you will ship
Lead Relay
A small app for an automation studio. A visitor explains the repetitive workflow slowing them down. The app validates the request, scores fit with visible rules, optionally summarizes messy notes with AI, stores the lead, sends the right response, and gives a human a clean review queue.
The browser validates obvious missing fields but never replaces server validation.
The API assigns a correlation ID, validates and normalizes the payload, and refuses requests without contact consent.
The system detects a duplicate using normalized email plus company within a 30-day window.
Visible business rules calculate a score and choose priority, review, or education routing.
The optional AI summarizer turns notes into painSummary, currentTools, desiredOutcome, unknowns, and confidence. It cannot change the score or route.