Originally published on my Substack.
I had a problem that was too small to hire for, too annoying to keep doing manually, and still important enough that I couldn’t ignore it.
My toddler is turning four, which meant I was back to sourcing birthday party venues. Building a shortlist, tracking down contact details, and drafting slightly personalised outreach for each venue. The kind of task that somehow takes hours when it should take minutes.
So I built a small AI agent to do it for me.
It takes my criteria, researches venues, logs everything in Notion, drafts outreach emails in Gmail, and flags edge cases where a human decision still matters.
The surprising part wasn’t the AI. It was debugging the boring plumbing between tools and deciding where not to automate.
I wrote up what I built, what broke, and the product decisions behind it here:
👉 https://neelanjana.substack.com/
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