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AI Builders Club – Club Meeting Minutes | Ep. 2: Build Your AI Inbox AssistantMeeting Agenda: Tame email chaos with smart, personalized automationTopic: Can AI help you stop dreading your inbox?Welcome back to the AI Builders Club meetup.This week, Chase and Aaron take on a daily productivity drain: overflowing inboxes that bury priorities and delay decisions. From cold outreach to forgotten follow-ups, what if AI could categorize, prioritize, and even pre-draft your emails, all while sounding like you?In this session, we covered:Why existing tools (Gmail, Superhuman, Notion Mail) still leave too much manual triageKey inputs: Gmail or Outlook access, prior email history, calendar, CRMs, Notion, Slack, personal writing samplesIdeal outputs: labeled and sorted messages, pre-drafted replies, daily actionable briefs with audit trailsThe tech stack behind the magic: LLMs (Claude Sonnet, GPT-4o), scheduling logic, email APIs, embeddingsThe human factor: preserving your unique voice and priorities so AI augments instead of flattensBonus tangent: rethinking the inbox interface to support agentic workflowsClub Takeaway: Your inbox can finally work for you, but only if you build a system that reflects your logic and your language.Adjourned with: “Please don’t replicate my physical mailbox digitally.”See you at the next meeting. Don’t miss the invite in your inbox.

AI Builders Club – Club Meeting Minutes | Ep. 1: Let AI Prep Your Next MeetingMeeting Agenda: Fix the chaos of external meeting prepTopic: Can AI rescue us from last-minute scramble syndrome?Welcome to the first official AI Builders Club meetup. This week, Chase and Aaron kick things off with a common workplace pain: external meetings that start with zero prep. Scattered emails, forgotten threads, missing context, what if AI could wrangle it all into a clean, five-bullet brief before you walk in?In this session, we covered:Why current prep tools fall short, and how custom flows can do it betterKey inputs: calendar events, CRMs, Slack, LinkedIn, meeting notesIdeal outputs: fast, focused summaries delivered via Slack or email (with optional coaching tips)The tech stack behind the magic: LLMs, APIs, vector databases like Pinecone or SupabaseThe human factor: when AI should step in, and when it should step asideBonus tangent: yak shaving and the hidden costs of workflow bloatClub Takeaway: Start small, ship fast, and build workflows that make humans sharper, not obsolete.Adjourned with: “Now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” – John SteinbeckSee you at the next meeting. Bring snacks.

AI Builders Club – Club Meeting Minutes | Ep. 0: Welcome to the ClubInitiation Agenda: Who we are, what we’re building, and why this club existsCongratulations, you made it past the velvet rope. This is your initiation meeting into the AI Builders Club.In this special kickoff episode, co-founders Aaron and Chase invite you behind the curtain to share why they created this podcast and what it means to build real solutions with AI. Forget the hype. Forget the headlines. This club is for the doers, the builders turning AI into tangible tools for work and life.In this episode, we covered:Why the AI hype cycle keeps repeating, and how to break out of it with meaningful buildsWhat Plumb is and how it’s helping creators craft agentic, no-code AI workflowsThe weekly format: real-world use cases, raw build breakdowns, and honest debates about what’s worth buildingOur core build principles: smaller bites, start small, and always reduce riskHow we’re building a community of AI champions, founders, solopreneurs, and internal innovators, who are sharing and shaping the future togetherClub Takeaway: This isn’t just another AI podcast. It’s your official entry into a builder’s guild, where we sweat the details and share the blueprints.Adjourned with: “Every club needs a code. Ours? Build smart. Build responsibly. Build for real people.”Welcome aboard.