Automating my vacation rental led me to a career I love.
I'm a Santa Barbara entrepreneur and AI and Automation Workflow Consultant at XRAY.tech, where I build systems that replace manual, repetitive work for clients. My first client was me. La Maison, my boutique hospitality business, hosts a thousand guests a year, and running it used to take 20+ hours a week. I automated my way down to 5 (while still netting six figures a year).
I didn't just make the video. I built every tool in it: nine apps, multiple skills, and several plugins, including the plugin below that makes training videos of apps like mine. Together they've given me back 50+ hours a month.
My team needed a walk-through of an app I built, so I built a plugin that makes one. Give it a link. It reads the app, writes the script, takes real screenshots, marks each button, and narrates in a friendly voice.
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Airbnb and VRBO bookings land on one shared calendar, and cleaners get a text when a stay changes.
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Your cleaner picks dates by text and is added to your shared calendar.
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You get a text only if a day still has no cleaner.
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Every guest and contractor gets a unique code that is revoked after checkout and never reused.
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One tap from the inspector texts the right contractor, who picks the next open time.
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A script turns booking payouts into the city's lodging tax form and checks that the totals add up.
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Bookings, reviews, money, guest messages, and cleaning coverage arrive in one Slack post each morning.
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A daily check fixes any price that is off for the next 12 months and reports to Slack.
Teams covering several houses see which tasks are on track, due soon, or overdue, and finished tasks earn points.
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- Training Video makes a narrated walk-through video of any web app. Give it a link and it reads the app, writes a plain-English script, takes real screenshots, and narrates them in a friendly voice.
- GitHub Portfolio Builder helps you highlight your strongest work, explain your contributions, and show employers, clients, and collaborators why your projects matter. Share your profile or a repository to get a prioritized plan for what to feature, improve, and add.
- Questions Worth Asking helps you know what to ask next. It turns meeting transcripts and notes into useful follow-up, with each question backed by the exact words that support it.
- Turn Off AI Data Sharing scans your default settings across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, and Meta AI. It explains each toggle in plain English and tells you exactly what to switch off.
See all my plugins on the Agent Plugins Directory.
- Publish a Plugin helps you prepare a Claude Code plugin for directory review. It checks the package, explains validation findings, and applies the fixes you ask for.
- Find Automatable Workflows helps you find repetitive work that could be simpler. It asks a few questions about your work and writes a specification for building the automation you choose. Its fictional case study shows the decisions before a build.
- Airtable AI Webinar: follow one real job through four versions of the same Omni interface, with a focus on building fun into the product and putting your own creative stamp on it. The Family Neighborhood case study explains the decisions behind each version.
- Skills for You: practical AI skills you can take, tweak for your setup, and make your own.
I lead Automate Your Business workshops in two series: in person at Kiva Cowork in Santa Barbara and online with XRAY. Every workshop and handout is in the Automate Your Business repository.
- Hands-on walkthrough
- Q & A
- Leave with a tangible solution
Two workshops to start with:
- The Team Bot: design one shared AI teammate for your business. This is the story of how I built my Grok Bot.
- The Morning Brief: design the short list an agent brings you before your day starts.
Soft Fork is my daily AI tools podcast. My Muse agent researches, writes, and voices each episode every morning, and the hosts actually laugh.
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I build automations like these for other business owners.