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Not a developer. Not a designer. Not a marketer - The one who makes sure THEY can actually do their jobs 😅
Behind every smooth-running business is someone asking the uncomfortable question nobody else thinks out loud:
"Wait… how does this actually work around here?"
That's the favourite question - That's the whole job!
Chaos into structure. Heads into documents. Founders out of their own way.
Sometimes that means building processes and documenting workflows. Sometimes it's coordinating teams, managing projects, chasing follow-ups, untangling calendars, or simply making sure nothing important falls through the cracks.
Real estate tech. Financial services. Software Houses - Different industries, same story !! Brilliant people, drowning in their own business.
Not because they weren't capable - But because nobody had written anything down 🥲 Or because they were spending their days buried in tasks that someone else could have taken off their plate.
Here to share what that journey looks like from the inside - the wins, the lessons, and the occasional "how has nobody fixed this yet" moment.
Stick around, ..& I promise it's going to be fun✨
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Wonder Spark is a concept for a lightweight design tool that is supposed to help capture inspiration from everyday objects and transform them into clean SVG assets.
This was my first time using Wonder and experimenting with an MCP workflow. I used Wonder to explore the visual direction and design the experience, then switched to Codex CLI in VS Code to begin building the interface and interaction flow before deploying the prototype with GitHub Pages.
While this submission is an early prototype still in progress, the challenge was a great opportunity to learn a completely new workflow. I enjoyed exploring Wonder's design capabilities and combining them with AI-assisted development, and I'm excited to continue building Wonder Spark beyond the challenge. View workflow video in comment.
Links: Wonder File:
https://app.wonder.so/rashida/files/019f33ce-5a7f-77af-aa96-9ca61aaf8952
Github repo: https://github.com/RashidaBuilds/Wonder-Spark Githubpages:
https://rashidabuilds.github.io/Wonder-Spark/
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A roofing company was spending $70,000 a year on a 4-person manual inventory and procurement operation.
I replaced it with a zero-touch pipeline. No human data entry. No spreadsheet handoffs. No "did we order that?" Slack messages at 9pm.
The system runs on Airtable, Python, and OpenAI. It took 3 weeks to build. It paid for itself in the first month.
Here's what I've learned after 20+ years of operations work and building these systems across hospitality, e-commerce, SaaS, and construction:
The expensive problem is almost never the one you think it is.
It's not the software. It's the 6 spreadsheets nobody wants to touch. It's the workaround that became company policy. It's the process that only works because one person memorized it.
I build systems that replace all of that: the CRM, the automation, the AI agents, the dashboards, the content pipelines. One architect, one connected system, everything built to work together from day one.
Recent builds:
Recovered 20 hours/week for a multi-venue hospitality operation
Unified 5 e-commerce storefronts into one automated command center
Built an AI system that replaced 8 improv actors per venue per night (yes, really)
Turned a hiring round into a one-button AI content pipeline
What's the one manual process in your business that you know is costing you the most time, but you haven't fixed yet?
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