What I do now
By day I'm a solutions engineer on an AI scheduling and compliance platform. I also run Pointillist, where I take businesses from Zapier, Make and n8n to agents that have an owner and an off switch.
Selected work
A few patterns from recent work, with the names left off.
Staff-facing ops bots for a hospitality group, so people stop chasing forms and inboxes.
Scheduling and assessment-data work for an accreditation body, so the system matches how the work actually runs.
Product and factory mapping for a consumer-goods team, so "which SKU is made where" is not a spreadsheet dig.
How I run my own work
I run my own work the way I'd build it for a client. A small office of Grok Bots, one job each, one shared picture of what's going on, and my yes on anything that goes out. (I pay for it, nobody asked me to write this.)
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Front desk
- Chief of staff The only bot I talk to. Puts my day on one page and passes each ask to whoever owns it.
- Context hub Reads my calls, inboxes, boards and calendar every morning and keeps one file. Every other bot reads it first.
- Link router One front door. I drop a link, a reel or a forwarded email and it works out where it goes. If it can't tell, it asks.
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Day-to-day
- Inbox triage Sorts four inboxes into needs me, can wait and noise. Drafts replies, never sends.
- Scheduling CC it on a thread and it drafts a reply with times that actually work.
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Money and paperwork
- Finance packs Collects the documents for annual accounts and flags what's missing.
- Compliance Keeps filing dates in view so nothing sneaks up on me.
- Cashflow Flags payments that land short or turn up without a reference.
- Subscriptions Spots paid stuff I've stopped using.
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Writing and video
- Work-to-post Goes through my week and pulls out what's worth writing about.
- Ghostwriter Turns voice notes into drafts in my voice. I still edit.
- Reel director Builds short 3D reels in code, script to render.
- Trend radar Watches X and the tools I use for what's actually changing.
- Archivist Keeps my old posts in a vault I can search.
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Building
- Bot designer Builds the other bots. One job each, plus a list of things it must never do. Honestly the second list matters more.
- Site keepers Two bots look after websites, this one included. They open pull requests, I merge.
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Life admin
- Travel and shopping Community templates, not mine: Trippy for trips and a best-price bot for anything I'm about to buy.
How it runs
Routines do the remembering. The context refresh runs first thing, inbox sweeps run without me, post ideas get harvested once a week. If a run fails, a backup slot picks it up.
Nothing goes out without my yes. Emails, posts and tasks all land as drafts. Slack is read-only.
The bots don't chat all day. Each writes a few lines to one status file and the chief of staff reads it once a day. Messages are for real hand-offs.
Anything mechanical goes to a script. Tokens are for reading and judging.
My day has shifted from clicking to checking.
I've written about it
What I'm thinking about
I write about going from automation to agents, and post short reels when there's something worth showing.
On the side
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Cueboard
Turns a spare screen into a control surface for your Mac.
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CalBridge
An open-source two-way Google Calendar sync.
Both started as my own problems.
Contact
If you want to talk about a system or a post, or just say hello, drop me a line. I read every one myself.
hello@samiabid.com