{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"NC Tweener Talks","title":"[REDACTED] Episode 6: The 8-Stage \"AI-ification Engine\" Behind Every Automation Shipped","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/27284564\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3012,"description":"David Shaner and Taylor Cotner spend this episode of Redacted screen-sharing everything they've built since the last one, and it centers on a framework David calls the AI-ification engine, an eight-stage method for turning any proven business process into something an AI agent can reliably run. He walks through the full pipeline, from process mapping through ongoing evaluation, and demos a new ClickUp documentation format the team built to keep every automation legible to both people and models.\nTaylor takes the second half to show how he rebuilt Offline's business development system from the ground up, using a single extended Claude conversation to reconstruct years of relationship history from his email and texts, then turning it into a repeatable five-phase playbook that can research a brand-new target company from a cold start.\nThe conversation covers the practical side of running AI in production, too, why they dropped a synced database in favor of calling the HubSpot API directly with whitelisted fields, and an honest, unresolved discussion of how to evaluate dozens of different AI-run processes once they're all live.\nTimestamps\n 00:00 Cold open \n00:41 Welcome back to Redacted\n01:53 Taylor's back from two weeks in Europe\n02:15 The new \"AI-ification engine\" board in ClickUp\n03:05 Offline's marketplace of auto-updating Claude skills\n06:50 Origin story of the AI-ification engine\n08:25 The 8 stages, back to back\n11:30 The hiring analogy: \"This is like HR for AI\"\n14:40 Inside the \"house format\" ClickUp table\n16:00 Ditching the proxy database for direct HubSpot calls\n18:05 Old-school SOPs vs. the new house format\n20:10 Walking the company-as-lead process step by step\n24:10 Why the old nested-SOP approach never got followed\n29:30 Handoff: Taylor's turn\n29:55 Offline's accountability chart and the visionary/integrator split\n32:05 Digging up the original Claude chat that started it all\n34:05 The first draft was terrible \n36:50 Timeline artifact and Claude for Chrome...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UEzoK7N1siD9YRaSVBWfZ8B3suSS2aonEIZ5NwBH1Gs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NjBh/YWVhZTA4ZTUyY2Fl/MDdhNzQwZWFhNDI4/MDc3Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}