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I Built a YouTube Research Agent (And It Changed How I Plan Videos)

I was planning YouTube content from vibes. Then I built a research agent that uses real YouTube data — and the results changed everything about how I approach video strategy.

Kim Doyal 7 min read

I Let an AI Agent Audit My Content Strategy. It Found 37 Posts I Forgot Existed.

I built an AI agent that audits my content strategy, scores gaps, and prioritizes opportunities — and the biggest thing it found wasn't what I was missing, but what I already had that nobody could find.

March 1, 2026READ MORE

AI Tools

I Stopped Using Other People's Systems. Here's What I Built Instead [VIDEO]

I've tried more project management tools than I can count. None of them ever stuck. So I built my own — a personal operations hub that combines my business and my life in one place, designed around how my brain actually works. Here's what it looks like and why people keep saying "I want that."

February 26, 2026READ MORE

AI Builder

I Rebuilt My SaaS in a Weekend (Here's What 6 Months of AI Learning Made Possible)

I rebuilt SPARKlinks from scratch in a weekend — not patched, not fixed, rebuilt. Four days from first prompt to a live app with authentication, a dashboard, and a referral system. Here's the real process behind the build and what six months of daily AI practice actually looks like when it all comes together.

February 8, 2026READ MORE

There's No Such Thing as Being "Behind" in AI (And Why That's Liberating)

I had coffee with a brilliant entrepreneur last week who apologized for "being so behind on AI." She's running a successful consulting business, has two kids, and is managing aging parents. Her idea of being "behind" was not having played with ChatGPT for writing her newsletter yet.

February 7, 2026READ MORE

Content Strategy

The Marketing Shift Manifesto: Why Yesterday's Playbooks are Dying (And What's Working Instead)

Last week, I opened an email that made me set down my coffee and reply. Jessica Stansbury, someone who's been in the trenches of online business for years, had sent a message that captured everything I'd been feeling but hadn't quite articulated.

January 11, 2026READ MORE

Tools & Resources

Google AI Series Part 3B: The Motion & Sound Studio for Creators

In the last post in the Google series, Part 3A, we covered Google's visual creation tools—images, graphics, and typography. The tools that replaced stock photo subscriptions and enabled us to create Pixar-style characters in minutes.

January 4, 2026READ MORE

Tools & Resources

Google AI Series Part 3A: The Visual Creation Studio

For a long time (in AI years), if you wanted AI-generated images, you went to Midjourney. If you needed stock photos, you paid for Deposit Photos (often via AppSumo) or spent 45 minutes scrolling through Unsplash, hoping to find something that didn't look like every other blog post.

December 16, 2025READ MORE

Content Strategy

Your Content Doesn't Need to Impress Everyone (Just the Right People)

For a split second, I almost changed something that was working. I was looking at my Pixar-style 3D images, the bright, colorful, slightly whimsical graphics I use in all my content, and I had this fleeting thought: Is this too childish?

December 15, 2025READ MORE

AI & Building

Google AI Series Part 2: Building Your "Second Brain" with NotebookLM

A few weeks ago, I was trying to refresh my memory on an ads training system I'd used months earlier. I had all the materials—worksheets, training documents, strategy guides.

December 7, 2025READ MORE