Managing My Finances with Claude and MCP
How I used Claude Cowork to build a personal finance automation system from bank statements to Excel dashboard, replacing vibe coding and SaaS tools.
Automating Client Onboarding for a Small Law Practice
In small professional services practices, admin often grows around the work rather than being designed to support it. One client had exchanged over 60 emails with a single client just to gather the information needed to prepare a visa submission. I worked with an immigration lawyer to fix that —
Building a Smart Form Validation Workflow with AI and Make.com
How I used AI to classify form submissions and prevent spam from reaching members. A practical workflow using Make.com, Claude, and strategic CRM routing.
Why We Built In-App Alerts for Nucleus Instead of Sending More Emails
Our internal systems worked well for developers, but we had no way to reach administrators inside Nucleus itself. Email was noisy and arrived at the wrong time. Release notes were forgotten by the time clients needed them. This post covers how we built a cross-instance alert system to reach admins i
Simplifying the Awards Navigation List in Nucleus for entrants
The 2025 focus has been admin tools, but this post is about the entrants. Nucleus was designed as a form builder, and BAFTA's Awards team have pushed it to its limits. What started as 7 forms became over 16, and the Create Entry screen was overwhelming users under deadline pressure. How we added gen
Improving Judge Creation in Nucleus
How a support ticket led to a small but useful workflow fix for creating and communicating with judges.
What I’m Building in 2026: AI and Automation Across Product Platforms
An outline of what I’m building in 2026 across automation, AI, and platform work, including Product Scope consultancy projects, BAFTA roadmaps, and applied prototypes.
Rebuilding Nucleus Around Content: The Story of Media Library
Each entry had space for exactly one video file. If someone submitted to multiple categories, they uploaded the same 4–10GB video each time. Painful for entrants, wasteful for BAFTA. My first fix didn't work. So I stopped patching and redesigned the entire workflow. That's where Media Library came
The Nucleus Admin Redesign: Modernising a Decade-Old Interface
A potential client once told me he'd seen two types of products in the awards management space: well-designed but lacking features, and feature-rich but lacking design. Then he said Nucleus fell into the latter camp. I couldn't disagree. This comment was the catalyst for something we'd known as a te
Building an Automated Video Transfer Workflow with No-Code Tools and AI
I built an automated video transfer system using Make.com, AI, and webhooks that handles file routing, metadata extraction, and error handling automatically.