I emailed Anthropic with an idea. Then I realised I maybe didn't need to.
Yesterday I got an email from Anthropic, the company behind Claude, asking me to fill out a survey about how I use it. Normal enough.
Except, while filling out my answers, I started thinking.
And the lightbulb pinged to life!
Here's the pitch I want to make to them, informally, in public:
hire me to document what happens when someone who isn't a developer, who's a bit older than the average founder, and who's got a graveyard of half-started ideas, actually builds things with Claude instead of just thinking about them.
For years I've had ideas.
Loads of them.
What I never had was the ability to execute without a developer, a budget, or six months I didn't have.
Claude changes all that for me.
I've already built stuff I never thought possible a few months ago.
Tools that work, that have utility.
Tools that actually add value and make my life better & easier.
So I emailed Anthropic's marketing team and suggested they pay me to show my working, warts and all.
Realistically? Call it a 1% chance they go for it.
It's long shot territory, I know that.
But I work in marketing and I actually see the value in the idea.
It's a small price to pay and if I was sitting in the marketing team, I'd definitely consider it.
But somewhere between sending that email and mulling it over, it clicked: I don't need Anthropic's permission or their budget to do this.
I can just do it anyway.
Document the process.
Think out loud in public instead of in my own head, which turns out to be a genuinely useful way to get ideas moving.
And maybe build an audience along the way, the way people like Peter Levels and Marc Lou have, off the back of nothing more than showing their actual work in progress.
So that's the plan.
Keep building, keep writing it down here as I go.
If Anthropic come calling, brilliant. Details below. 😉
If they don't, I'm doing this regardless, and you get a front row seat either way.