Everything from September 1

1. Meeting people, on purpose

What this is

I'm an introvert, and networking has always been a cap for me, so I built the follow-up I'd never remember to do on my own. Something captures a person I just met, Claude fills in the gaps and drafts a short specific note overnight, and I wake up, read it, and hit send. Full credit to Tina Lopez, who showed me a version of this first, because that's what the night was really about, you solve your own problem and someone else in the room has the same one.

Where it runs

In a claude.ai chat, and if you have an iPhone the capture step becomes an Apple Shortcut so you can do it from your pocket. No iPhone is fine too, since a notes app and this saved prompt do the same job, and the habit is the part that matters.

The prompt

I want to build a simple system for following up with people I meet.

How I meet people: [conferences, church, client meetings, wherever you actually meet them]
How I want a follow-up to sound: [warm and short, or formal, or however you write]
Where I keep contacts today: [phone contacts, a spreadsheet, a CRM, nowhere]

Help me design a capture-and-follow-up system that:
1. Captures a name, where we met, and one thing they said, in under thirty seconds.
2. Uses that to fill in their role, company, and context, and tells me when it is guessing.
3. Drafts a short, specific follow-up message in my voice, using the one thing they said.
4. Leaves it for me to read and send myself. It never sends on its own.

If I have an iPhone, walk me through building it as an Apple Shortcut step by step,
and write the exact prompt the Shortcut sends you each time someone new gets captured.
If I do not, give me the saved prompt I paste in each time, with the three blanks I fill.

Steps

1. Open claude.ai, start a new chat, and paste the prompt with your three bracketed lines filled in.
2. Answer the questions it asks you, and it will ask two or three, because the capture step depends on how you actually meet people.
3. If it hands you a Shortcut, open the Shortcuts app on your iPhone, tap the plus, and build it action by action exactly as written, then add it to your home screen.
4. Save the follow-up prompt it wrote you as a Project instruction or a pinned note so you paste the same thing every time.

You know it worked when

Make it yours

The two lines worth editing are the voice line (make it sound like you, and paste in a real message you've sent if you want it exact) and step 3's "in my voice", which you can widen to "and suggest one specific next step" once the basic version is running.

2. One link that does the work

What this is

Everything I do sits behind one link in my bio, and I built it with Claude for free. One page, your name, what you do, and the three or four places you want people to go.

Where it runs

Built in a claude.ai chat, downloaded as one HTML file, and put on the internet in section 3. No code, no framework, no monthly fee.

The prompt

Build me a single-page HTML link-in-bio site.

Who I am and what I do: [describe yourself in two or three sentences]
What I want linked, in order: [Instagram, LinkedIn, my site, my calendar link, whatever you want people to click, most important first]
The one thing I most want people to do: [book a call, follow me, buy the book]
Colors and feel: [clean and dark, warm and bright, minimal, or name a site you like]

Rules:
- One HTML file with all the CSS inline. No frameworks, no external scripts.
- Looks good on a phone first, since that is where people will open it.
- The one thing I most want people to do is the biggest button.
- Ask me anything you are unsure about before you start, then give me the finished file to download.

Steps

1. Paste the prompt into a new claude.ai chat with your four bracketed lines filled in.
2. Answer what it asks, then look at the preview it shows you and tell it what to change, in plain words, until it looks like you.
3. When you're happy, say "give me the finished file to download" and save it as index.html. The filename matters for section 3.

You know it worked when

Make it yours

Come back to the same chat any time and say "add a link to X" or "change the colors to Y", then download the file again. Section 3 is where you replace the old one.

3. Put your page on the internet

What this is

That page Claude just built you is a single HTML file, so getting it live needs no terminal and no install, and it takes about three minutes on Cloudflare Pages, which is free.

Where it runs

In your browser, at dash.cloudflare.com. You'll need a free account, and the email confirmation is the slowest part.

Steps

1. Put your index.html in a folder on its own, and name the folder anything you like.
2. Go to dash.cloudflare.com, make a free account, confirm the email, and sign in.
3. In the left menu click Workers & Pages, then the Create button, then the Pages tab.
4. Choose Upload assets, type a project name (this becomes yourname.pages.dev), and click Create project.
5. Drag your folder onto the upload box, wait for the file to show, and click Deploy site.
6. Cloudflare shows you the live URL. Open it on your phone.

You know it worked when

Make it yours

To update the page later, go back to the same project, click Create deployment, and drag the folder in again. To put your own domain on it, the Custom domains tab on that project does it from the same screen and you won't have to rebuild anything. No affiliate link anywhere in this, it's just genuinely free.

4. The four agents, as files

What this is

These are the four agents that did the most to make my life with AI better, and on stage all you got was their names. Here they are as files you can drop in and run today. A chief of staff that reads what changed and tells me what needs me, a skill builder that turns anything I've explained twice into a tool, a completeness auditor that catches what's missing before anything ships, and a stress tester whose whole job is to say no. Each one is a trimmed-down version of the file I actually run, with my private setup stripped out and the behavior left in.

Where it runs

Pick where you build. The choice sticks, and you can flip it any time.

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5. Your $50 in API credits

Credits attach to an Organization in the Console, so you paste in your Organization ID, and a Claude.ai user ID gets rejected. Each person can claim once. Anthropic runs fraud protection on this program and watches it closely, so a second attempt or a second profile gets the account flagged and at risk of being deactivated for good, and the credits team has no way to undo a bad submission. Claim it once, the right way, and the $50 is yours.

Steps to create your Organization and find the ID

1. Go to console.anthropic.com and sign in, or create an account. This is a separate login from Claude.ai.
2. If it asks you to create an Organization, do it, and name it anything you like.
3. Open Settings, then Organization, and copy the Organization ID.
4. Open the credits link above, paste the Organization ID, and submit.

You know it worked when

Worth saying plainly, the credits live on the API side and can't be spent on Claude.ai, so nothing you built in section 1 or 2 touched them. The friendliest way to spend them is the Workbench inside the Console, which is a chat window running on the API, and the four agents above run there too.

6. What's next in Chicago

The date lands first in the Claude Community Chicago Discord, and the two September events on the calendar are full with waitlists open, so grab a spot on the list if either one fits.