John Rice / Build Notes
The decisions behind
the finished thing.
A product starts with choices: whose problem to solve, what to build, and how to tell whether it works. These notes connect the projects to the methods you can try yourself.
BUILD NOTE / 01
Expertise,
made usable.
made usable.
Turning a specialist’s method into software.
Inside Your Post Coach: how a focused coaching method becomes feedback a writer can use, with Tony Albrecht’s expertise at the center.
BUILD NOTE / 02
A brief,
with evidence.
with evidence.
What a meeting assistant needs to show its work.
Inside an agency assistant prototype: source references, unresolved questions, and the review steps behind a meeting brief.
BUILD NOTE / 03
The work,
understood.
understood.
Before you automate it, understand the work.
A practical way to choose your first AI workflow without turning a small experiment into a systems overhaul.
BUILD NOTE / 04
A better
handoff.
handoff.
Your agent needs a handoff, not a pep talk.
Give an agent a clear destination, enough context, and boundaries it can actually follow.
BUILD NOTE / 05
Make it
repeatable.
repeatable.
Build a prompt you can use again next week.
Turn a promising one-off prompt into a small working tool with examples, checks, and an owner.