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Life SystemsCreative Media

Sarah Rose Siskind, HelloSciCom

Science comedy writer and founder at HelloSciCom

Uses AI as a creative writing partner, personal support tool, and experimental life mirror — from brainstorming comedy to training a custom LLM on pregnancy-era audio and text as a strange, funny comparison between human and machine learning.

ChatGPT
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Life SystemsPersonal Productivity

Andrew Wilkinson, Tiny

Cofounder at Tiny

Built a set of personal AI apps for everyday life and work, including a relationship/personality analyzer, a custom email client, a meeting-pattern detector, and a wardrobe system that texts outfit ideas each morning.

Claude CodeReplitLindy+3
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Personal Productivity

Yash Tekriwal, Clay

Head of Education at Clay

Built a custom AI-powered Slack dashboard that turns 150+ daily notifications into a focused Kanban-style inbox organized by urgency: Action Required, Need to Read, and FYI.

OpenClawPerplexitySlack+3
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Prototyping & DesignMarketing & Content

Jamey Gannon

AI Creative Director at Brand Sprints

Uses mood boards, Midjourney style references, personalization codes, Nano Banana, Flora, and Figma to create consistent AI-generated brand imagery that can be packaged into reusable client-ready visual systems.

MidjourneyPinterestCosmos+3
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Company AI AdoptionBusiness Operations

John Kim, Delight.ai

Co-founder and CEO at Delight.ai

Built a company-wide AI adoption system at Delight.ai with an internal automation marketplace, gamified quests, AI usage tiers, secure app templates, and personal knowledge workflows like The Gardener.

ClaudeClaude CodeCodex+3
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Creative Media

Dave Clark, filmmaker

Filmmaker at Independent

Made the AI sci-fi short Borrowing Time without a traditional camera shoot, using AI image, video, and voice tools to create a proof-of-concept film and attract attention around a bigger story world.

MidjourneyRunwayElevenLabs
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