Case Study: my 10 hour a week dashboard


Hey Reader,

I used to spend 30 minutes to an hour every single day logging into Instagram, Google Analytics, and half a dozen other tools just to see how my business was doing.

And I'm literally an engineer with 25+ years of experience.

That's 10 hours a week of pure busy work.

Here's the exact system I built to get those hours back.

You are the bridge. That's the problem.

Every morning you log into tool A, look at a number, and carry it in your head to tool B.

You're a human bridge between apps that don't talk to each other.

Not good.

So I made Claude the bridge instead. It plugs directly into the tools you already use, like Stripe, Instagram, and Google Analytics.

The setup takes about 2 minutes per tool.

But connections alone aren't enough. There's a second problem nobody warns you about.

AI forgets your business every single day.

By default, Claude has no memory of you.

Every chat starts from zero, and you waste time explaining your accounts, your tools, your data all over again.

It learns over time, but that's automatic and not reliable.

So I fixed that with one prompt.

Now Claude remembers my whole business: which Instagram account is mine, what data it can pull, and how I like my reports.

And I never explain myself twice anymore.

The result is one dashboard.

Followers, reach, top posts, audience data.

One dashboard that updates itself every time I open it.

No logins. No spreadsheets. No developer, and I used to be the guy you'd hire for this.

In the video below, I walk through all 5 steps, including:

  • How to connect tools Claude doesn't support yet
  • Data privacy and how to keep your data safe
  • The exact prompts I used to build this

Watch the full setup here:

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Talk soon,
Rob

Robin Ebers

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