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Full Tutorial: Build an AI Life Co-Pilot with Claude Code in 25 Minutes | Alex Finn

Learn how to build a "Claude Life" operating system that automates your research, AI news consumption, brain dump analysis, and business metric tracking.

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Sep 07, 2025
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Dear subscribers,

Today, I want to share a new episode with Alex Finn.

Alex is a founder who has built a complete "Claude Life" operating system that automates his research, news curation, brain dump analysis, and business metric tracking. I asked him to walk through exactly how to set up this system using Claude Code slash commands and sub-agents in just 25 minutes.

Watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.

Alex and I talked about:

  • (00:00) How Alex uses Claude Code to automate his life

  • (04:18) Inside "Claude Life" — Alex’s life operating system

  • (05:29) The newsletter research agent that saves hours weekly

  • (09:09) How to use custom slash commands and sub-agents

  • (14:41) The most important skill that everyone needs in 2025

  • (18:01) Brain dump analysis to find new content pillars

  • (21:14) Daily brief agent that aggregates AI news


🎙️ Coming up next on Behind the Craft

I don’t think there’s a team out there that’s more AI native than the Claude Code team, so I’m lucky to interview:

  1. Cat Wu, Claude Code’s product lead, on how she works as an AI-native PM

  2. Meaghan Choi, Claude Code’s design lead, on her Figma to production workflow

I’ll share these exclusive interviews via my Youtube, so subscribe to get them soon:

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Top 10 takeaways I learned from this episode

A snapshot of Alex’s “Claude Life” project with folders for his top AI workflows
  1. Create an AI operating system for your life. Set up folders for brain dumps, newsletter research, and business metric tracking in your project so that Claude Code can access and analyze all your relevant context.

  2. Build slash commands for repetitive tasks. "Every Thursday I wake up, type /newsletter and it finds all the top content from other newsletters and even writes a draft. This saves me couple hours a week." Alex does this by creating custom slash commands that spawn sub-agents to handle multi-step tasks.

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