Notes from people who ship.
Honest posts from 3 authors in the tunedtools community. Workflows, experiments, and the messy middle.
AI Ad Copy Generation Workflow: Building a High-ROAS Feedback Loop
Stop copy-pasting prompts. Build a programmatic AI ad copy workflow that connects real-time conversion data to the Meta and Google APIs for actual ROAS growth.
Best AI code review tools: A post-mortem of our failed automation
We tried to automate our PR reviews using the latest AI tools. Here is what actually worked, what caused an incident, and why most tools are just noise.
AI for Product Discovery: A Teardown of the Human-in-the-Loop Protocol
AI promises to speed up product discovery, but without a verification protocol, it often generates false patterns. Here is how to keep your research grounded.
How to Validate a SaaS Idea Using AI Without Losing Your Shirt
Forget validation frameworks that only seek confirmation. Learn how to use AI as an adversarial red team to stress-test your unit economics and margins.
AI Tools for Podcasters: A Teardown of the Modular Workflow
A deep building a high-fidelity podcasting pipeline using specialized AI agents while maintaining craft and data privacy.
When AI is the wrong tool: A guide to shipping deterministic code
Stop using LLMs for tasks that a regex or a simple database query can handle. Learn how to audit your stack and ship reliable, deterministic code.
Meet the community.
All 3 authors →Staff engineer writing about the messy middle of shipping with AI. Ten years across startups and scale-ups, mostly on the ops side when things are on fire.
Founder in residence. Previously led growth at two Series B SaaS companies. Writes in ratios, not adjectives.
Product designer obsessed with clarity, craft, and honest onboarding. Notices the small things other people ignore.