Chris Explains AI : Command Center

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Chris Builds AI (agency) CRITICAL

Phase 0 — build pre-customer

40%Last touched 2026-05-30

Next: Sales site v1 + v2 built (local, not deployed). Next: rename site copy/nav from 'Architect Agency' to 'Chris Builds AI', run code-review + QA, swap in the real demo dashboard, then deploy and flip Railway to Hobby before driving traffic. Google Cloud OAuth (Step 0) deferred until the Tier 1 app exists.

Agency cockpit tab · Build plan · Worker engine · Worker repo

Notes

Renamed to 'Chris Builds AI' 2026-05-30 (was 'Architect Agency'; brand architecture in BUSINESS-PLAN.md — Chris Explains AI = education, Chris Builds AI = done-for-you, verb pair). Site rename pending before deploy. Two-tier productized AI agent agency. Tier 1 LITE $197 one-time, Tier 2 FULL $597-797 + $150/mo. Step 1 (auto-proposal pipeline) COMPLETE 2026-05-29: all 4 accounts wired (Supabase + Resend domain-verified + Firecrawl free tier + Railway), worker deployed from private repo chrisexplainsai/agency-worker and verified processing a real lead end-to-end from the cloud (claim -> Firecrawl scrape -> awaiting-draft -> Resend ping). /draft-proposal dry run passed. Sales site v1 (/agency) + v2 (/agency-v2) built locally, plus a clickable demo dashboard (Chris-approved). Railway on FREE TRIAL ($5/30 days) — flip to Hobby before agency marketing starts. Google Cloud OAuth (Step 0) deferred until Tier 1 app exists; runbook + form copy + 120x120 consent logo prepped.

Content engine (build-in-public, both arms) CRITICAL

Unblocked, not yet started

0%Last touched 2026-05-30

Next: Kickoff on the redirected angle (BUSINESS-PLAN.md): build-in-public, agency-and-agents-led. Show Chris's real Claude Code setup + the agent systems he builds; gate the how-to. Pick the platform mix, set a light starting cadence (a few posts/week while recording, ramp to daily at launch), decide carousel tooling (Python/Pillow vs Figma).

Business plan (content strategy) · Launch plan

Notes

Strategy redirected 2026-05-30: front door for BOTH arms (courses + agency). One content stream = trailer for the Claude Code courses + proof for the agency + credibility for the Architect Method. Videos lean toward the agency / agent systems Chris builds; carousels carry tips + AI updates + shorter concepts. Gating rule: show what I can do, not how I built it. Automation machinery unchanged (Python/Pillow templating, Publer, Twitter/Grok research workflow); only the content angle moved. Phase 1 funnel closed 2026-05-28.

Course ladder (Architect Method + 2 Claude Code courses) CRITICAL

Course 1 slides done; recording next

70%Last touched 2026-05-30

Next: Record The Architect Method (Chris is the bottleneck; all slide decks + teleprompter docs are done). M1-M4 approved; M5-M10 await Chris's Google-Slides review. Then build courses 2 (Claude Code Beginner) + 3 (Claude Code Advanced), neither started.

Course ladder (Business plan) · Draft · Slide workflow

Notes

Education arm = a 3-course ladder (see BUSINESS-PLAN.md): (1) The Architect Method — prompting foundations, draft + all 11 slide decks done (engine locked, renderer-agnostic, audit-clean), recording is the next step; (2) Claude Code Beginner — not started; (3) Claude Code Advanced — system-building, shares subject matter with the agency, not started. Lead magnet content complete.

Also open1

Idea Factory (SYSTEM-VISION Layer A)

Built — running ideas

100%Last touched 2026-05-27

Next: Engine is built and live. Ideas in flight (parallel session): video-reverse-engineer at Gate 3 (final plan, awaiting Chris); micro-tools at Gate 2 (verdict, awaiting Chris). Resume per the /factory SOP.

Build plan · Vision doc · Folder convention

Notes

BUILT 2026-05-27 at full scope (pipeline + dashboard), overriding launch-first ordering. Engine at ideas/_engine/factory.py + /factory skill; per-idea state under ideas/<slug>/; decision queue at command-center/data/factory-queue.json; Factory board on the cockpit. Idea Bank store live (16 ideas). Two ideas currently moving through the gates in a parallel session.

Recently done5

Launch track

Phase 1: Funnel (closed); Phase 2 next

100%Last touched 2026-05-28

Next: Phase 1 closed. Start Phase 2 (content engine + traffic) in a fresh session. Deliverability is monitor-only from here: watch Promotions placement improve as sender reputation warms over the first ~100 sends.

Launch plan · Phases checklist · Live site

Phase progress · 4 phases

Phase 0: Pre-launch polish 6/6 · 100%

✓ Brand and logo final review
✓ CE monogram and full asset suite (16 SVGs, 16 PNGs)
✓ Brand guide locked
✓ Lead magnet content final pass (universal prompt template)
✓ Lead magnet PDF formatting + reusable PDF template (HTML/CSS + Playwright, supersedes Word template)
✓ Polished lead magnet PDF ready for distribution

Phase 1: Launch the funnel 12/14 · 86%

✓ Cloudflare Pages account created (stood up during cockpit deploy 2026-05-26)
✓ GitHub account / repository set up — `chrisexplainsai/site` repo created 2026-05-27
✓ MailerLite account created (2026-05-27)
✓ Astro project scaffolded (2026-05-27, Astro 6 + Tailwind v4)
✓ Landing page hero and copy draft 1 (2026-05-27, 13 iterations → final)
✓ Email capture form wired to MailerLite (2026-05-28, fetch POST to MailerLite endpoint w/ fields[name]+fields[email])
✓ Lead magnet auto-delivery on signup (2026-05-28, MailerLite Automation: Waitlist join → branded HTML welcome email with PDF link)
○ Welcome email sequence (3-5 emails) — 1 of N done (the welcome). Drip sequence deferred until first batch of subs.
✓ Site live at chrisexplainsai.com (Cloudflare Pages, both apex + www, SSL enabled, 2026-05-28)
○ First real (non-Chris) email subscriber
✓ MailerLite sender domain authentication (DKIM/SPF, authenticated 2026-05-28)
✓ Cloudflare Email Routing for chris@chrisexplainsai.com → gmail forward (2026-05-28)
✓ MailerLite From email swapped from chrisexplainsai@gmail.com → chris@chrisexplainsai.com (2026-05-28)
✓ Cloudflare Web Analytics installed (auto-injected at edge, confirmed 2026-05-28)

Phase 2: Content engine 0/8 · 0%

○ Publer account setup
○ Image templating script (Python + Pillow) working end-to-end
○ First Figma carousel template designed
○ Twitter/X-via-Grok content research workflow operational
○ First batch of 7 days of posts scheduled
○ First short-form video published (TikTok / Reels / Shorts)
○ 2 weeks of consistent posting hit
○ First 100 followers across primary platforms

Phase 3: Course delivery 0/8 · 0%

○ Supabase Auth set up
○ Stripe account verified
○ Course content migrated to Astro content collections
○ Member-only middleware in place
○ Member dashboard design
○ Video hosting decision and account
○ Payment flow tested end-to-end
○ First paying customer

Notes

Phase 0 COMPLETE 2026-05-26. Phase 1 SHIPPED end-to-end 2026-05-27 -> 28. Funnel closeout 2026-05-28 evening: From swapped to chris@chrisexplainsai.com, welcome email stripped to personal-note format, PDF re-uploaded in MailerLite, From-name set to 'Chris', subject set to 'Your prompt template', DMARC TXT record added at Cloudflare (p=none monitor mode), Cloudflare Web Analytics confirmed running (auto-injected, 142 PV / 23 visits in last 24h), recipient-facing gmail addresses swapped on Footer/privacy/terms/index, 'check Promotions' hint added to signup success state. Multi-inbox retest result: consistent Promotions placement (improvement from the spam result this morning). Reputation warmup over first ~100 sends is the remaining lever for Primary.

Command Center dashboard (v1)

v1 shipped

100%Last touched 2026-05-26

Next: v2 ideas tracked in the plan file. No active work; revisit after launch.

Hub page · Plan

Notes

All 6 steps done 2026-05-26. Code-reviewer PASS WITH NOTES (fixes applied), qa 61/61 pass. v2 deferrals: auto-derive last_touched from tagged log entries; pull real multi-window-payoff % into the AI snapshot card.

Claude Code infra deepening

Complete

100%Last touched 2026-05-27

Next: No next action set.

Plan

Notes

All 5 chunks done. E + F + G + H shipped 2026-05-26. Chunk I (Personal/ workspace at C:\Users\chris\Documents\Personal\) shipped 2026-05-27 — folder scaffold, CLAUDE.md, HANDOFF.md, travel/reference/HOWTO.md, .gitignore, forest-green VS Code theme. Anthropic 2FA confirmed enabled 2026-05-27.

Overnight research run (competitor + audience)

Complete

100%Last touched 2026-05-26

Next: Pull from competitors/_summary.md + pain-points/_themes.md for Phase 1 landing-page copy + lead magnet positioning.

Competitor summary · Pain-point themes · Status

Notes

Ran end-to-end 2026-05-26. 235 verbatim audience quotes + 20 competitor deep dives + 2 strategic synthesis files. ~35 min compute, 12 parallel Sonnet sub-agents. Recurring observation: nobody complains about AI cost — only effectiveness, identity, job security. Strong positioning signal for Architect Method.

Brand Phase 0 (logo + asset suite)

Complete

100%Last touched 2026-05-25

Next: No further brand work until launch posts call for new templated assets.

Brand guide

Notes

CE monogram, full asset suite (16 SVGs + 16 PNGs), tagline, descriptor, color palette, typography all locked.

Insights rule-based, all-time

info

Dominant focus: Infra/CC with 21 of 36 tagged entries (58%).

If this matches your stated priority, good. If not, the day-to-day pull is away from the top of the plan.

info

Peak hour: 11p with 14 entries.

If this is outside your day-job window, you've found your deep-work block. Defend it on the calendar.

claude

In-progress phases on the launch track: Phase 1: Launch the funnel.

Either check items off in phases.md, prune what's no longer planned, or move stalled items to a backlog.

Recent activity last 5

2026-06-16 20:15

OtherHandoff: editor rebuilt into the command center; Chris off to Charleston (back ~Jun 21-22)

End-of-session handoff before Chris's Charleston trip (Jun 17-21). The /edit review experience is now an in-command-center local web app and all the bugs Chris hit are fixed + verified. Resume path + pending creative graphics pass written to [HANDOFF.md](HANDOFF.md).

2026-06-16 20:13

Phase 2[P2] /edit video editor rebuilt into the command center + all review bugs fixed

Re-architected the `/edit` review flow into an in-command-center web app: new [serve.py](command-center/serve.py) local server (127.0.0.1:8765) serves the whole cockpit + an editor API; the Editor tab is now a video gallery whose Edit button opens [edit.html](command-center/edit.html)`?slug=` to cut/restore/range-cut/toggle-graphics/Lock&re-render in-page with live stage+elapsed progress (multiple videos supported). New Desktop "Command Center" shortcut launches it (replaced "Edit Video.bat"). Fixed: CUT was never implemented (could only un-cut) — now click a word to cut, again to keep, shift-click a range, wired through [edit.py](content/editor/_engine/edit.py) `apply_corrections`; stuck render button (now writes per-stage + terminal status, server tracks live rebuild threads so stale "running" files are ignored); HEAD 501 hid the final video (added do_HEAD in [review_app.py](content/editor/_engine/review_app.py)); cloud Editor tab showed a black video + dead localhost button (now read-only gallery + poster + banner). Verified a full real re-render end-to-end (~10 min, terminal done). Republished the cloud cockpit (read-only gallery + poster). 6 lab-notes entries captured. Chris off to Charleston Jun 17-21.

2026-06-15 23:07

OtherHandoff: social analytics + caption pipeline + #7 republished

Pulled the full batch-1 performance analysis ([active/analytics/2026-06-15-batch1-publer-data.md](../../../active/analytics/2026-06-15-batch1-publer-data.md)) — key finding: big video reach but ~0 site click-through, the bio-link path is the #1 conversion fix. Built the [/caption skill + engine](../../../content/captions/_engine/caption.py) and republished video #7 to YouTube as a Short. HANDOFF.md updated; next chat verifies the TikTok/IG bio link is tappable + watches batch-2 /free clicks.

2026-06-15 23:04

Phase 2[P2] Rebuilt video #7 with captions + republished to YouTube as a Short

Diagnosed #7's flop (recognized as a Short but got zero Shorts-feed distribution — a quality-filter/processing miss, not a strike). Rebuilt it through the new caption engine, Chris approved the look after a few style iterations, and republished it to YouTube only (as a Short, Public, with title + caption + 9 hashtags) via Publer — confirmed "Successfully posted" and live on the channel as a Short for a fresh feed shot. Also verified batch 2 (Jun 15-24) is still intact on the Publer calendar (the home-page "no scheduled posts" widget was glitchy).

2026-06-15 23:02

Infra/CC[INFRA] Built /caption skill + burn-in caption engine

Built [.claude/skills/caption/SKILL.md](../../../.claude/skills/caption/SKILL.md) + engine [content/captions/_engine/caption.py](../../../content/captions/_engine/caption.py). Drop a raw clip in `active/captions/inbox/`, it transcribes the real spoken audio (faster-whisper, word timestamps), fixes brand mishears (clawed→Claude, chachi pt→ChatGPT) + collapses the spoken URL to chrisexplainsai.com/free on one line, and burns the Chris-approved CapCut style: Nunito rounded indigo title box + Outfit white/black-outline captions with the active word turning indigo word-by-word, centered. Fonts instanced from Google Fonts variable files. Going forward Claude writes all captions/titles and burns captions from the dropped clips (auto-matching each to its script).

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