Hey, I’m
James
- Building
with Claude - Founder,
TradeSmart Systems - Sparky by
trade
I teach people to use Claude. I can only show you the way I use it myself. Every agent and skill I build for myself, you get.
Read it, or run it.
The newsletter is written for you to read: the full story behind each post, with every source linked so you can check it yourself. Skills are files your AI can run: paste one into Claude, tell it what you need, and let it do the work.
No email, no sign-up. They're free because somebody did the same for me.
How Claude Fable 5.2 wants to be prompted
Anthropic's guide to prompting Fable 5.2 has a few things in it worth changing: effort, early stopping, the ownership sentence, and your old "never" rules.
Read the full write-up, sources and all →Hear when there's something new.
Every so often I send what I'm working on and any new skills that have gone up. A skill is a file you paste into Claude that does a real job for you, and they live on this site for free whether you sign up or not.
It's optional, and you can leave any time. No pitch, no spam.
TradeSmart Systems.
The business I actually run. Software that takes the admin side of a trade business off the owner's plate, so the paperwork and the missed calls stop piling up for the evening. Separate company, its own website, and not what I'm selling you here.
It's on this page because it's the reason anything I teach is worth listening to. I'm not explaining AI from the outside. I'm running a business on it, and everything I show you is something I needed for that first.
Who I am.
I'm from the Central Coast in Australia, and I build AI systems and businesses. I'm the founder of TradeSmart Systems, which takes on the late-night admin that eats a lot of tradies' evenings: the quoting, the paperwork, the calls that pile up after the job is done. The point is giving that time back.
Every skill on this site is one I wrote because I needed it first. I write down what actually worked, so you can skip the part where you find out the slow way.
What I post.
New Claude features and what they're actually good for, other AI worth knowing about, and whatever I'm building at the time. Each post is the short version, and the full write-up lives in the newsletter.