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Walk me through a Tuesday.
Not the pitch version. The real one. Who comes in first. What they open. What they re-type. The thing your team has done the same way for ten years — that's what I'm looking for. You don't have to know it's a problem. I'll point at it.
Working software.
Owner-operated small businesses in the NC Triangle with one painful workflow everyone is compensating for by hand.
"We copy this into three places." "Nobody trusts the numbers." "Only Dale knows how it works." "It falls apart when the phone rings." Notice none of these say the word "problem."
Send the messy version. I name the shape of the absurd part after I see how the day moves.
Prove AI Can't Help
Think your work is the exception? Prove it.
Name the job, workflow, or task. If I can't show a practical way AI improves it, I pay you $1,000. The point is not hype. It is that almost every job has at least one measurable place where AI can make the work faster, cheaper, sharper, or less miserable.
Name a real workflow
Pick one specific part of one real business — not "creativity" or "human connection" in the abstract. A task someone gets paid to do today.
I attempt it
I build the AI system that takes a swing at it. You see the inputs, the outputs, the prompts, the tool calls — all of it. No hand-waving.
You judge against the human baseline
You and I agree on the test before I start: what counts as "AI did it better," who scores it, what the inputs are. If the human still wins on that test, you get $1,000.
Public outcome
Win or lose, the result goes on the site. Loss is good marketing — it means I found a workflow worth respecting. Don't submit if that bothers you.