Scenario playbooks
What do you want to make?
Pick the outcome first. Each playbook is a working sequence — which tool handles which step, in what order, and what to watch for at each one. No need to know what the tools are called before you start.
Turn a pile of documents into a private knowledge base you can question
Drop in PDFs, Word files and web pages, then ask questions in plain language and get answers with the source passage attached. It can run entirely on your own machine.
An afternoonModerate4 steps02Turn a recording into minutes with action items
An hour of audio goes in; a speaker-separated transcript, structured minutes and a who-does-what-by-when list come out.
Half an hour to set upLow3 steps03Turn one article into several vertical short videos
Feed in a paragraph or a topic and get visuals, voiceover and captions assembled into a publishable vertical video. No editing skills required.
An hour for the first oneLow to moderate4 steps04Turn screenshots and scans into searchable text
Hundreds of images, screenshots and scanned contracts converted into copyable, searchable text that you can find again by keyword.
An hourLow3 steps05Get up to speed on an unfamiliar codebase
Inheriting someone's project, or returning to your own repo from six months ago: have the structure and call graph explained before you touch anything.
Half a dayModerate3 steps06Automate the work you repeat every day
Copy-paste, export-import, watching a site for changes: hand that to scheduled jobs and browser automation, and deal only with the exceptions.
An afternoonModerate3 steps07Produce a full set of visuals single-handed
Covers, illustrations, product shots, avatars, background removal: establish a style once, then produce in batches instead of re-describing every time.
Two daysModerate3 steps08Ship a website from zero over a weekend
Idea to a reachable URL: pages, components, deployment, and a form that actually collects feedback.
One weekendModerate3 steps09Produce an AI short drama or motion comic
Start from a novel or script and produce characters, storyboard, shots and voiceover as one releasable short drama. Character consistency is the hard part.
Two to five days for the firstHigh5 steps10Write long-form — and make it not read like AI
Topic, structure, research, draft — plus a final pass that removes the tell-tale AI cadence. The goal is prose a reader doesn't clock as machine-written.
Half a day to a dayModerate3 stepsEvery tool referenced here is already in the directory. Playbooks describe how tools connect — they don't claim a best-in-class winner, and no vendor pays for placement.