Guides & playbooks

Practical, step-by-step guides for building with AI. Grab setup instructions, prompts, and skills.

  1. Guide · Claude Code

    The Fable Orchestrator Setup

    Let Fable plan and judge while Opus writes the code—save tokens while you have a few days left on Pro (as of 11/14/26).

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  2. Guide · AI workflows

    Prompt, Loop or Graph: Which One Your Task Needs

    Use a 10-second test to pick the right pattern: a one-off prompt, a pass/fail loop, or a multi-step graph with exits.

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  3. Guide · product management

    A PM's Prototype Used to Be a Picture. Now It's Software

    Five habits for learning from AI-built prototypes without letting polished screens make product decisions for you.

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  4. Guide · marketing

    Win Back Customers Who Quietly Stopped Buying

    Find lapsed customers, group them by buying history, and send each a win-back offer that fits why they may have left.

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  5. Guide · business context

    Stop Re-Explaining Your Business to AI

    Give every AI agent the same reliable picture of your business with one source of truth, built through a guided interview.

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  6. Guide · sales

    Build a Quote Builder Skill: Job Details In, Branded Quote Out

    Teach Claude your real pricing once, then turn job details into a branded quote you can review and send.

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  7. Guide · growth

    Build a Free Tool Instead of a Free PDF

    Turn your expertise into a useful calculator, checker, or generator that gives potential customers a result of their own.

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  8. Guide · workflows

    Build Your Automation Backlog

    Rank recurring work by impact and risk, choose one task, and test it in shadow mode before handing it over.

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  9. Build breakdown · OpenAI API

    How I Built Savepoint in One Week

    A one-week build with Claude Code and OpenAI's API, turning short-form videos into structured, searchable playbooks.

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  10. Guide · thinking

    Run a Pre-Mortem Before You Start Anything Big

    Ask AI to imagine why a project failed, find the earliest warning signs, and change the plan while there is still time.

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  11. Guide · agent workflows

    Loop Engineering for Product Builders

    Move from prompting agents one turn at a time to building loops that do useful work, verify the result, and keep product judgment with you.

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  12. Guide · product

    Turn Customer Calls Into a Ranked Problem List

    Use two prompts to extract customer problems with evidence, then find patterns across calls without inventing a roadmap.

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  13. Skill of the Week · #1

    Give Your Coding Agent a Map of Your Codebase

    Set up CodeGraph so your coding agent can query code relationships, trace callers, and check the impact of changes.

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