The Book
The Builder's Playbook for the AI Era
Build Your Own AI Applications Without Becoming a Software Engineer
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Who it's for
Builders — business owners, technical entrepreneurs, consultants, IT professionals, and doers who want to use AI to build useful business applications. If you'd rather ship something than study computer science, this is for you.
What's inside
50 chapters across 8 parts. You'll go from an empty GoDaddy VPS to a running, AI-powered Document & Asset Catalog — with authentication, uploads, AI analysis, intelligent search, and a real security audit. Every chapter gives you the exact Builder Prompt to run.
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Table of contents
- Builders Are Doers
- AI Is A Tool
- What Are We Building?
- Your Journey Begins
- Why Builders Use Tools
- Acquire Your VPS
- Install Visual Studio Code
- Connect Your Workshop
- Meet phpMyAdmin
- Create The Database
- Seed The Database
- Connect PHP To MySQL
- Understanding Users
- Build Authentication
- Session Handling
- Protecting Pages
- Build Dashboard
- Navigation
- Understanding Assets
- Asset Table
- Build Upload Form
- Store Uploaded Files
- Display Assets
- Asset Details Page
- Why AI Belongs Here
- Connect To Claude
- First AI Request
- Analyze Documents
- Store AI Intelligence
- Automatic Categorization
- Why Search Matters
- Basic Search
- Intelligent Search
- HTMX Search Experience
- Asset Viewer
- Dashboard Intelligence
- Error Handling
- Logging
- Backup Strategy
- Final Security Audit
- Launch Checklist
- You Didn't Learn One Application
- The Pattern Behind Every Business Application
- Expand Into Customer Management
- Expand Into Estimating
- Expand Into Inventory
- Expand Into Project Management
- Finding Opportunities
- The Opportunity Radar
- Keep Building