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Nomad Eats — Monthly AI Content Engine
A full content operation for a food & lifestyle media brand. Monthly delivery of SEO-optimized long-form articles, AI-generated food photography-style visuals, Instagram carousels, and a scheduled content calendar.
Result: Organic traffic up 620% in 6 months
12 articles/month + 30 branded AI images
3 keywords ranked #1 on Google by month 4
Nomad Eats had great food content on Instagram but zero Google presence. I built their entire SEO content engine — a keyword strategy targeting 180+ terms, monthly long-form articles hitting 1,800–2,500 words each, and AI-generated visuals that matched their warm, editorial brand aesthetic. Six months in: 620% organic traffic growth, a newsletter that grew by 4,200 subscribers, and three #1 Google rankings for their core keywords.
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I think I'm pretty good at it
I watch two Anthropic engineers for 2 HOURS
Claude's engineer explains Skills from scratch
the first 5 minutes
wait. Skills are just folders?
folders that hold onto your workflow?
your domain? your expertise?
pause. rewind. I watch again
I think about every prompt I've rewritten from scratch
every context I've explained 100 times
every session that forgot everything
this shouldn't have happened like that
16 minutes. everything changes
skill issue detected:
is there a video? can you share the link to it? i'd like to watch
Creative brains, help me settle this 👀
Which redesign direction hits harder for the redesign of a weight loss website I am working on?
⚡ Option A — Bold & Cinematic
🧼 Option B — Clean & Premium
Which will guarantee more conversions?
9 voted
30%
21 voted
70%
30 votes
Closed
Will go for the clean and premium own which is the option B
PROJECT NAME
AION PYR — The Aitherioi
CONCEPT / PROJECT DESCRIPTION
AION PYR is a one-minute instrumental progressive-rock film by The Aitherioi, a fictional trio of pale pre-terrestrial beings older than Earth.
They were here when the planet was born from heat, basalt, and lava, and they remain calm as that world dissolves into stardust. The film follows them performing inside a collapsing volcanic cathedral while lava, steam, lightning, and stone slowly give way to void.
The music is built only from guitar, bass, and drums: slow, heavy, repetitive, bass-led, and cathartic.
PROCESS
I started by defining The Aitherioi: a fictional pre-terrestrial trio with a shared visual identity, pale ethereal bodies, severe faces, long dark hair, and calm expressions.
Then I built the visual system around contrast: fossil-dark basalt, living lava, white steam, lightning, and their stillness inside collapse.
I created character assets, face studies, wardrobe references, instrument references, environment plates, keyframes, and individual video scenes.
The music was built first as a strict one-minute instrumental progressive-rock track using only guitar, bass, and drums. The video was then structured to follow the track: bass opening, wide trio, basalt corridor, guitar catharsis, drummer pulse, matter dissolution, and final void.
Finally, I stitched the scenes together with clean cuts so the film follows the music without extra transitions or title cards.
FEEDBACK ON BUILDING WITH MELIUS
Melius worked best as a production canvas rather than a single-prompt generator.
The node-based workflow made it possible to build the project in layers: character identity, environments, audio, keyframes, video clips, and final assembly. That helped keep the concept coherent while still allowing corrections when individual shots needed refinement.
The biggest challenge was visual continuity, especially keeping The Aitherioi consistent across scenes. The most useful approach was creating strict reference assets first, then using them as anchors for keyframes and video generation.
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