Jun 28, 2026
AI Workflows·12 min
Building an AI Receptionist for a Recording Studio
How we replaced a $2,400/mo answering service with a Twilio + GPT pipeline that books sessions, handles pricing questions, and escalates to a human when it matters.
Long-form and short. Postmortems, prompts, playbooks, half-formed ideas. Everything we've written down worth reading.
How we replaced a $2,400/mo answering service with a Twilio + GPT pipeline that books sessions, handles pricing questions, and escalates to a human when it matters.
Institutional memory is the cheapest competitive advantage nobody buys. A short argument for writing things down before you think you need to.
Two days, three carriers, one wrong APN. A postmortem on assuming the modem was broken when the SIM was fine.
A repeatable playbook for launching a store in a weekend — theme choices, app stack, and the three settings that actually move revenue.
What worked, what didn't, and the one opening line that outperformed everything else by 4×.
Design system, copy, deploy, and DNS in under six hours. The stack, the constraints, and the parts we deliberately skipped.
How we replaced a $2,400/mo answering service with a Twilio + GPT pipeline that books sessions, handles pricing questions, and escalates to a human when it matters.
Institutional memory is the cheapest competitive advantage nobody buys. A short argument for writing things down before you think you need to.
Two days, three carriers, one wrong APN. A postmortem on assuming the modem was broken when the SIM was fine.
A repeatable playbook for launching a store in a weekend — theme choices, app stack, and the three settings that actually move revenue.
What worked, what didn't, and the one opening line that outperformed everything else by 4×.
Design system, copy, deploy, and DNS in under six hours. The stack, the constraints, and the parts we deliberately skipped.