Austin AI Club
Everything we’ve figured out about AI, written down.
Step-by-step guides for people who run a business, not a lab.
The first hour.
Four things, in order.
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Buy one tool
The free tiers are demos. A paid seat runs about $20 a month.
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Learn when you need an agent
Usually you don’t. Six minutes here saves you building the wrong thing.
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Point it at your inbox
The triage rules, the draft prompts, and the parts we left manual on purpose.
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Take our prompts
Voice files, checklists, schemas. Change the names, keep the structure.
No guide is behind the membership. Read what you need and go.
Which one to buy
People lose weeks comparing these. They’re all good now. If you have no strong opinion, take the first one.
Best at long documents, writing that sounds like a person, and anything code-adjacent.
Image generation, voice, and the biggest plugin ecosystem. Pick this if you want everything in one place.
Reaches into Docs, Sheets, and Gmail natively. Worth it if your company already lives there.
Bring it something real — a messy spreadsheet, a proposal, a week of email. Riddles and trivia tell you nothing about how it handles your work.
The library
20 guides
Every one came out of something we built and ran. The numbers in them are ours.
The one thing to get right before you get comfortable.
Four habits that separate useful answers from generic ones.
The most common small-business use, and the checks that keep it honest.
Where voice agents work, and where they quietly lose you customers.
The easiest win here. Ten minutes to set up.
How we write, edit, and ship 52 issues a year in 90 minutes each.
The Figma, the copy file, the tests, the numbers.
What actually moves the needle when search itself is changing.
The content engine that turns one idea into a week of output.
A two-minute decision tree. Most “agents” should have been a function.
A local assistant that actually knows your stuff.
Hard limits, tool gates, and the kill-switch to add on day one.
Seven agents, three human checkpoints, features that ship overnight.
The triage rules, the draft prompts, and what we stopped automating.
Voice prompts, real send numbers, the line on personalization.
The three signals that say the bot is making things worse.
Fifty labelled tickets, one prompt, one router. That's the build.
Five small style overrides that stop the giveaway look.
Veo to Runway to Resolve. The cuts, the prompts, the project file.
Track spend per user and per prompt before the bill surprises you.
No guides at that level yet.
Templates & snippets
Every prompt, voice file, schema, and checklist the guides point at.
Who runs this
It started in the consulting calls. Same questions — which model, which tool, what would you actually use — over and over, then typed again into five different emails afterward.
So we started keeping the answers in one place. AustinAIguy.com is the front door for the paid work; this is where the rest of it lives. The stacks were ranked for clients anyway. The guides were already written three times each. Nothing here was planned — it all came from someone needing it first.
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Membership
The guides stay free. Membership is for when you’d rather ask a person than read another page.
Reading
- Every guide, start to finish
- Every prompt and template
- New guides as they land
No account needed.
Membership
- The member group chat
- Monthly group office hours
- A monthly roast of your stack
- One 1:1 call a month
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Questions
Do I need to know how to code?
For most of the library, no. Guides marked Beginner are copy-paste and clicking. The Advanced ones assume you can read a bit of TypeScript or SQL, and they say so up front.
Is this actually free, or free-until-the-good-part?
Free. Every guide is complete on the page. The membership buys access to us, not to hidden chapters.
Who writes these?
The Austin AI Guy and the operators in that network. Everything here came out of work we did for a real business, which is why the guides have specific numbers instead of round ones.
What if I just want someone to do it for me?
That's the other site. The AI Once-Over maps where AI belongs in your business and builds the first system with you.
How often do new guides go up?
When we finish something worth writing down. We'd rather publish one real build than four roundups.
Rather have someone do it?
The AI Guy maps your business, finds where AI actually saves time or makes money, and builds the first one with you.
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