Frontier AI Labs with Wil Waldon

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Jun 2026

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Hi 👋 I'm Wil Waldon. I build products with Claude and I teach others how to do the same. I've been writing code for 15+ years. Fullstack product engineering, MVPs for early-stage founders, a couple of exits. These days most of my workflow runs through Claude. Claude Code, the API, system prompts, MCP servers. I use all of it daily. This channel is where I break down how I actually use Claude to build and ship work. Not hype. Not demos that fall apart outside a screen recording. PROMPTS --- https://www.skool.com/ai-and-automation-3750/about

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June 15, 202611 min

Automate the boring parts of your business with Claude

Today I want to walk through the difference between an AI tool and an AI system, because the gap between those two things is where most of the money is. We're working with Claude and Claude Cowork today, nothing else. By the end of this you'll understand why one-off prompts don't compound no matter how good they are, you'll be able to spot where a system pays for itself within the first month, and you'll know how to map the processes already running in your business onto AI workflows. Before any of that makes sense I should explain what these two tools actually are.Claude is an AI assistant. Same general category as ChatGPT, made by a different company called Anthropic. You can use it free at claude dot ai in your browser, and there's a paid plan at twenty dollars a month that gives you more room to work. Inside Claude there's a feature called Projects, which is basically a folder with a memory, and that's going to matter a lot today.Claude Cowork is a desktop app from the same company. If regular Claude is a conversation in a browser tab, Cowork is closer to a coworker with access to your computer. You point it at a folder, it can read the files in there, create new ones, run jobs on a schedule, and keep working through multi-step tasks while you do something else. It comes included with the paid Claude plan.

June 10, 202611 min

How to Sell Software Built in Free Claude for $200 a Pop

Most people think selling software means building an app. It doesn't. A static HTML, CSS, and JS file solves real problems for local businesses, costs nothing to build with Claude's free tier, and sells for $200 a pop with the right framing. This episode walks through the whole process — what kinds of businesses buy this, what you actually hand them, and how to price and pitch it without a portfolio or a product page.

May 28, 20268 min

How to choose what systems to automate with Anthropic's Claude

Most service businesses either automate the wrong things or try to automate everything at once. This episode walks through a simple process using Claude to figure out what's actually worth automating, what order to do it in, and what to leave alone.What You'll Walk Away With1. A method for tracking where your time actually goes each week2. A scored automation roadmap based on frequency, consistency, and risk3. A filter for catching the automations that sound good but won't work.Spend one week logging every repetitive task in your phone's notes app. Paste the full list into Claude and ask it to group by type and estimate weekly time per category. The patterns are easier to see from the outside.Score each task on frequency (how often), consistency (how similar each time), and risk (cost of a mistake). For most service businesses, the first automation is almost always the initial response to new inquiries.Skip anything requiring real judgment on specific situations, anything with volume too low to justify setup time, and anything your customers expect a human to handle. Pressure-test each candidate by describing real examples to Claude and asking whether it's a good fit.

May 27, 20268 min

The Podcaster's Claude Workflow That Turns One Episode Into Ten Pieces of Content

Wil walks through how he repurposes each Frontier AI Labs episode into a newsletter draft, five or more social posts, and a set of show notes using Claude. He covers how to set up a Claude Project with your own writing samples so the output matches your voice, how to prompt for each deliverable in the same conversation, and what the whole workflow costs. About thirty minutes of work after recording for ten pieces of content.0:00 — What the episode covers and what Claude is2:30 — Bio3:00 — Setting up a Claude Project with writing samples and voice context4:30 — Getting a transcript from your phone5:00 — Newsletter: writing a standalone issue from a transcript, not a summary7:00 — Social posts: pulling five posts from different sections of the episode9:00 — Show notes: specific descriptions, timestamps, and keywords for discoverability10:30 — Cost and weekly workflow11:00 — CTApodcast content repurposing, Claude for podcasters, AI newsletter workflow, social media from podcast transcript, podcast show notes, Claude ProjectsFrontier AI Labs: [youtube.com/channel/UCX3HDBasMU2qS3svgtuzD2g/]Claude: [https://claude.ai]Book an AI Systems Audit: [https://wilwaldon.com]

May 25, 202611 min

Why Most AI Chatbots Make Your Business Look Worse

Today I want to talk about something I see constantly, which is small businesses putting AI chatbots on their websites and thinking they've solved a problem when they've actually created a new one. I'm going to walk through a better approach using three tools, Claude, Make, and Tally, and by the end you'll know how to replace your chatbot with a form that actually performs better, capture leads without annoying the people visiting your site, and respond to inquiries faster than the chatbot would have anyway.Get a free AI evaluation for your business - https://wilwaldon.com

May 24, 202613 min

ChatGPT vs Claude for Business Owners

Today I want to walk through the differences between ChatGPT and Claude and a third tool called NotebookLM that most people haven't heard of yet. By the end of this you'll know which tool to reach for in which situation, how to stop paying for two subscriptions that overlap, and how to pick the right one depending on whether you need content, research, or operations work done.Book your free evaluation - https://wilwaldon.comAI Business Community -https://www.skool.com/ai-and-automation-3750

May 23, 20269 min

How a Roofing Company Can Book More Jobs with AI

Today I want to walk through how a roofing company can use AI to book more jobs without hiring more office staff. The tools are Claude, Make, and Cal.com. By the end of this you'll know how to respond to inspection requests within a minute, generate quote ranges from photos and a zip code, and let customers book the inspection themselves without a phone call.Get help here >> ⁠⁠https://wilwaldon.com ⁠⁠Join our business automation community >> ⁠⁠https://www.skool.com/ai-and-automation-3750

May 22, 20269 min

The AI System Every Real Estate Agent Should Be Running

Today I want to walk through how to set up an AI system specifically for real estate agents using three tools. Claude, Make, and Tally. By the end of this you'll know how to qualify buyer leads before you waste time on a call, draft personalized follow-ups for cold prospects, and generate property descriptions from a handful of bullet points.Get help here >> ⁠⁠https://wilwaldon.com ⁠⁠Join our business automation community >> ⁠⁠https://www.skool.com/ai-and-automation-3750

May 21, 202610 min

Automating Customer Support Without Sounding Like a Chatbot

Today I want to walk through how to automate the customer support side of a small business using three tools. Claude, Make, and Gmail. By the end of this you'll know how to set things up so incoming emails get triaged by urgency automatically, the common questions get personalized replies drafted for you, and anything that actually needs a human gets flagged so you don't miss it.Get help here >> ⁠https://wilwaldon.com ⁠Join our business automation community >> ⁠https://www.skool.com/ai-and-automation-3750⁠

May 20, 20269 min

The $500 AI System I'd Build for Any Small Business

Today I want to walk through how to put together a simple AI system for a small business using three tools. Claude, Make, and a form builder like Typeform or Tally. By the end of this you'll know how to set things up so new customer inquiries get answered automatically, leads who go quiet get followed up with, and a two-minute voice memo turns into a week of social media posts.Before any of that makes sense I should probably explain what these tools actually are.Claude is an AI assistant. Same general category as ChatGPT, made by a different company called Anthropic. You can use it free at claude dot ai. People who use AI for real work tend to prefer it because it writes in a more natural voice and handles bigger documents better.Make is an automation platform. The way to think about it is that it connects apps to each other so they can pass information back and forth without you copying and pasting. You build little flows where one thing triggers another. If you've heard of Zapier, it's the same idea. Make is usually cheaper and gives you more room to do interesting stuff.Typeform and Tally are form builders. Drag and drop, no coding, you put a form together in maybe ten minutes and paste a link to it on your website.Reach out >>> https://wilwaldon.com