The Recap AI

@recap_david crazy

I built a "Video Factory" that turns a single phone selfie video into a fully edited short-form video automatically. I drop in raw A-roll. I get back a polished video ready for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts (see example below). The editor is Claude, powered by a harness of custom skills I built on top of open source video editing skill packages (video-use & hyperframes). Here's how it works: → I record a talking head on my phone and drop the raw file in → Claude edits it like a real video editor: cuts, animations, pacing, structure → It layers in B-roll from dozens of CoinLedger product clips → It generates new B-roll with image models when it needs something that doesn't exist → A research harness pulls in viral news angles to ride → Everything runs on a video-use skill plus the open-source HyperFrames skills The result: one raw clip in, one high-quality short out. One-shotted. (See the before/after below.) I spent hundreds of hours testing and building with the generation models i.e. Veo, Sora, and Kling. Building robust editing agents like Video Factory turned out to be 10x more useful for the actual marketing work. "Video Factory" is going to allow me to scale to hundreds of thousands of qualified impressions per month for my businesses and products. No edit bay. No editor. No 12-hour timeline. Just sit down, record a talking head, dump to Claude, get final output 15 mins later. Repeat. I'll be doing a full breakdown of Video Factory and the skills powering it in a future tweet storm and YouTube video.

@recap_david do as i say not as i do

Go-to-market is the largest hiring category at OpenAI. Roughly one in five open roles sit across sales, partnerships, and revenue functions, with enterprise account executives among the company’s most aggressively recruited positions. The same is true at Anthropic. The companies building the AI that’s supposed to replace your sales team are the ones hiring sales reps the fastest.

@recap_david Newsletter

If I had to start one AI side hustle in 2026, this would be it. A local newsletter that pulls $2K+/month run entirely by a team of 4 AI agents. The founder (Lucas Walter) has never written a single edition. This is a copy/paste-able system that could by applied to any city in the world. Here's the agent setup👇 → A Growth Engineer agent scrapes every local news site, subreddit, and event calendar at 6am daily. It also manages all the Facebook ads for the subscriber growth → A Content Director reads the database and writes the weekly newsletter in his voice every week → A Sales Director handles every inbound advertiser — email back-and-forth, package pitching, AI-generated ad creative → A CEO agent orchestrates all three and reports back to him Results from Lucas's newsletter, 'Spokane Pulse': - 7,400 subscribers - 47.5% open rate (industry avg 20–30%) - ~11% click-through rate - $2K/month in ad revenue and growing - Under 4 hours/week of human-in-the-loop Now imagine running this same system for YOUR city. I linked to Spokane Pulse in the comments so you can check it out for yourself. Like & Comment "Newsletter" and I'll send you the full course that gives you the playbook + the exact agent setup as a one-click import. (must be following so I can DM)

@recap_david newsletter

I know a guy running a $2K/month local newsletter business with 4 AI Agents. It's called 'Spokane Pulse" and has 7,400 subscribers, 47.5% open rate, ~11% CTR. Here's how the agents work: → A Growth Engineer agent scrapes every local news site, subreddit, and event calendar at 6am daily. It also manages all the Facebook ads for the subscriber growth → A Content Director reads the database and writes the weekly newsletter in his voice → A Sales Director handles every inbound advertiser — email back-and-forth, package pitching, AI-generated ad creative → A CEO agent orchestrates all three and reports back to him The result: a real local media business that runs like a company instead of a stack of cron jobs. This business is live and real (you can check it out yourself (link in comments) If you want the full course giving away the exact blueprint, do this: Like this post + Comment "NEWSLETTER" (must be following so I can dm) I'll send you the complete course and the city-by-city playbook — see video below.

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@lucas_fabric AGENTS

I built a zero-person newsletter business that makes over $2k/month (and I have the receipts to prove it). It’s run by 4 AI agents. No humans on payroll. The numbers: 6,000+ subscribers, $2,000+ in ad revenue last month, less than 4 hours of my time per week. Here's how the org chart works: → A CEO agent monitors company metrics, hires AI Agents, and delegates work → A growth engineer builds scrapers, wires its own daily routine, and ships features → A content director drafts every newsletter edition from real local event data → A sales director sells ad inventory on autopilot → Each agent runs on Paperclip AI with its own skills, memory, and scheduled routines This is how you build a media business without needing to hire. Today, this playbook crushes. A month from now, every operator on AI Twitter will be running one. These windows of opportunity are only open for so long... Follow + Comment "AGENTS" and I'll DM you the full setup video that you can use to build your own (must be following so I can dm you).

@recap_david AGENTS

@recap_david AGENT

I built a Reddit marketing agent that gets your business mentioned by ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. Not a spam bot. Not the kind that gets banned by mods. An agent that drafts genuinely valuable answers grounded in your company's actual content and slips in a brand mention only when it actually helps. Google is paying Reddit $60M a year just for their data!!! If your business isn't showing up in that data, your competitors are, and ChatGPT is recommending them instead of you. Here's how the system works: → A Claude routine pulls the target subreddit's JSON endpoint every hour for new posts → A Phase 1 checklist filters every post — is it answerable from our wiki, factual, on-brand, mod-safe? → The answer engine queries an LLM Wiki built from our blog, guides, and help center (Firecrawl ingested every page into a raw → wiki → index structure) → Claude drafts a casual, value-first answer that grounds every claim in our content → Every draft lands in Slack for human-in-the-loop review before it posts — no fire-and-forget, no bans I built this in a week for CoinLedger, the crypto tax software I've been running for 8 years. 10% of our new signups already say they found us through ChatGPT. This system is how we push that number a lot higher. If you want the exact Claude skill I built: Like & Comment "AGENT" (must be following so I can dm you) I'll send it over for free.

@recap_david ZERO

I spent 6 months building a zero-person AI newsletter business that is now making $2,000 per month (and I have the receipts to prove it). The business: Spokane Pulse, a local newsletter for the city of Spokane. The team: 4 AI agents. The numbers: 6,000+ subscribers, $2,000+ in ad revenue last month, less than 4 hours of my time per week. I packaged the entire process into a 6 hour course walking you through my exact playbook that can be cloned for any local city of your choosing. Here's what the course actually covers: → How to build the 4-agent team (CEO, Content Director, Growth Engineer, Sales Director) — every prompt, every skill → How to set up the local data scraping pipeline that feeds your newsletter → How to run Facebook ads to grow your subscriber base → How to use Reddit to pull in even more subscribers → How to turn your Instagram into a local events page → How to build the inbound advertising funnel so your agents can close ad deals without you → The exact playbook my Sales Director used to close a $750 deal last week — without me ever picking up the phone This isn't a get-rich-quick thing. You're building a real local media business. But it's a compounding wins business. More subscribers → more valuable list → more ad deals → more reputation in your city. If you're interested, comment "ZERO" below (must be following so I can DM). I'll send you the full curriculum + early-bird link.

@recap_david PULSE

I built a zero-person AI newsletter business that did $2,000+ in revenue last month. No team. No payroll. No freelancers. Just 4 AI agents running the entire operation (and I spend less than 4 hours a week on it). Here's how the system works: → A CEO agent sets the vision and orchestrates every hire → A Growth Engineer scrapes local news, Reddit, and event venues into a daily JSON database → A Content Director reads that database, curates the best events, and writes every Thursday newsletter in my voice → A Sales Director fields every ad lead, generates ad creative with nano banana, and closes deals over email → All orchestrated through Paperclip AI & powered by Claude Code Spokane Pulse (my local newsletter) now has 6,662 subscribers and a 47.5% open rate, almost double the industry average. Local newsletters are quietly printing money. Naptown Scoop does $320K/year. Wichita Life clears six figures. The model is wide open in almost every city, especially when building it in an AI-native way. If you want the full blueprint and step-by-step walkthrough video, Like, RT, and comment "PULSE" (must be following so I can dm you) I'll send you the exact Paperclip AI company export I use to run Spokane Pulse. You can clone it, swap in your city, and ship.

@recap_david RENOVATE

I turned a Zillow listing into a cinematic property renovation video for $15 (no camera, no drone, no film crew) Just listing photos + Calico AI. Most agents are paying $100-$500 per property for videos at this quality. Offer this to realtors in your area and print money. Here's how the workflow breaks down: → Grab listing photos from any property (Zillow, Redfin, take your pick) → Lock in one consistent renovation style across the whole house → Generate photorealistic after-renovation images → Animate the transformation in every room → Build a cinematic closing shot with the realtor's contact info → Drop in a custom music track → Stitch it all together The result: a scroll-stopping property video that gets buyers dialing — built entirely from photos that were already on the listing. No videographer. No staging budget. No waiting around for golden hour. Comment "RENOVATE" and I'll send over the full workflow + every prompt + a step-by-step walkthrough video (gotta be following so the DM goes through!).

@recap_david CALICO

I know a real estate agent that got 2 million views on Instagram posting AI-generated property videos. $0 spent on videographers. $0 spent on editors. Here are 4 AI video formats agents are using to go viral on social media: 1. Room renovation animations (before-to-after transformations that build themselves) 2. Listing photo walkthroughs — cinematic videos with music, voiceover, and captions 3. Day-to-night property transitions 4. Home construction timelapses (new builds assembling from the ground up) Most agents are still posting the same 10 listing photos. You need to build video hooks that actually stop the scroll of your buyers/sellers. I put together a free PDF with the exact prompts for all 4 along with full tutorial videos. Comment "CALICO" and I'll send you everything (must be following so I can dm you!).