# Build: business recipes for solo creators

URL: https://insidethemachine.ai/build
Claude conducts, your machine builds.

- Claude does the planning, the hard writing and the final review. That takes few tokens.
- Local models do the bulk work on every item, for free and in private.
- Every recipe shows receipts: Claude tokens (this recipe vs doing it all in Claude), local minutes and dollars.

Blueprints now, numbers later. We run every recipe on a 128 GB Mac Studio from 10 Nov 2026, then publish the receipts.

## Families

- Content studio: Make more from each video: clips, titles, thumbnails, the newsletter. (3 blueprints)
- Creator ops: The private back office: inbox, sponsors, admin. Nothing leaves your computer. (1 blueprint · 2 tools)
- Creator commerce: Sell to your audience: products, offers, store copy. (None yet; it comes after the first real runs)

## Blueprints

| part | recipe | family | what it does | Claude's first job | local parts | runs from GB | status | markdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-01 | Shorts cutter (flagship) | Content studio | Turn one long video into a handful of Shorts. Your machine does the listening and cutting. Claude picks the best moments. | Reads one-line summaries of the top moments (not the whole transcript) and picks the 3 to 5 that stand alone. | Transcriber, Decider (Local Jev), Drafter | 8 | Blueprint, not run yet | https://insidethemachine.ai/build/shorts-cutter.md |
| B-02 | Videos → newsletter | Content studio | Turn this week's videos into a newsletter draft. Your machine drafts each section. Claude writes the intro and does the final edit. | Writes the subject line and the intro: the hard writing. | Transcriber, Drafter, Decider (Local Jev) | 8 | Blueprint, not run yet | https://insidethemachine.ai/build/videos-to-newsletter.md |
| B-03 | Thumbnail & title lab | Content studio | Make many title and thumbnail ideas on your machine, score them all, and let Claude pick the few worth testing. | Writes a short brief once: the angle, who it is for, and three title rules. | Drafter, Decider (Local Jev), Image maker | 8 | Blueprint, not run yet | https://insidethemachine.ai/build/thumbnail-title-lab.md |
| B-04 | Sponsor inbox | Creator ops | Sort every sponsor email on your own machine. Real offers rise to the top, scams and mass pitches drop out. Nothing leaves your computer. | Writes the replies to the best offers only, from a short summary you approve first. | Decider (Local Jev), Drafter | 8 | Blueprint, not run yet | https://insidethemachine.ai/build/sponsor-inbox.md |

## Tools that run today

Tested on a small model in a cloud container, on the CPU. Speed not measured.

| part | recipe | family | what it does | Claude's first job | local parts | runs from GB | status | markdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-05 | Local Jev | Creator ops | A decide-only model on your own machine. It answers typed questions about each item: pick one, give a score, or yes/no. It never writes. | Writes the questions once. | Decider (Local Jev) | 8 | Runs today (CPU test, speed not measured) | https://insidethemachine.ai/build/local-jev.md |
| B-06 | Claude's local intern | Creator ops | A small MCP server that lets Claude Code hand bulk jobs to your own machine: draft, sort, transcribe, caption. Each job comes back with a token receipt. | Plans the work and hands the bulk to the intern. | Drafter, Decider (Local Jev), Transcriber | 8 | Runs today (CPU test, speed not measured) | https://insidethemachine.ai/build/local-intern.md |

"Runs from" is the smallest memory size where every local part has a model that fits. Parts run one at a time.

## Receipts

Every recipe page shows: Claude tokens, this recipe; Claude tokens, all in Claude; Local minutes; Claude dollars (estimate). Each reads "not run yet" until a run is approved.

YouTube does not pay for mass-produced or repetitive videos (its "inauthentic content" rule), and it asks you to label realistic AI-made content. So every recipe ends with a step only you can do: make it yours.

## Site MCP server

https://insidethemachine.ai/mcp (remote MCP over Streamable HTTP, no key needed to read).

- Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http insidethemachine https://insidethemachine.ai/mcp`
- Cursor, Windsurf and other clients that take a URL: `{"mcpServers":{"insidethemachine":{"url":"https://insidethemachine.ai/mcp"}}}`
- Clients that only run local commands (stdio): `npx -y mcp-remote https://insidethemachine.ai/mcp`

Tools:
- `what_fits`: What runs on a memory size or a machine: the smartest model, the model for each recipe part, and which build recipes run there.
- `search`: Search recipes, models, machines and tools.
- `list_recipes`: Every build recipe, with its status.
- `get_recipe`: One recipe: Claude's job, the local parts per memory size, the steps and the receipts.
- `get_model`: One model: memory need, score and run command.
- `get_runs`: Approved runs for a recipe. Only runs a person has approved.
- `submit_run`: Share your run: numbers only (machine, models, stage times, token counts). It goes to a review queue first.

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