
Data & AI Strategy Instructor @BerkeleyHaas | Former CIO & CPO | Helping Growth-Stage Tech Companies Build Organization-Wide AI Capability
Austin, TX
Joined April 2009
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The #1 thing separating teams who ship AI workflows from teams stuck in pilot mode?
It's not better tools. It's not bigger budgets.
It's a shared vocabulary.
Here are the 10 building blocks every AI team needs to know: 🧵
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Where to start based on where you are:
→ One-off tasks? Improve your context quality
→ Repeating prompts? Convert them into Skills
→ Multi-step workflows? Add Agents (start semi-autonomous)
→ Copying data between AI and tools? You're ready for MCP
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The framework isn't a ladder. It's a toolkit.
Full deep-dive with practical exercises for all 10 blocks: graymatter.jamesgray.ai/p/th…
Which layer is your team spending the most time in — Intelligence, Orchestration, or Integration?
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Claude Code Desktop now supports --dangerously-skip-permissions!
This skips all permission prompts so Claude can operate fully autonomously. Great for workflows in a trusted environment where you want no interruptions, no approval prompts, just uninterrupted work.
But as the name suggests... use it with caution! 🙏
Stop building random @claudeai agent skills.
Learn the decomposition framework that makes them actually useful.
Free 30-min session Friday—you'll build a working skill live.
maven.com/p/f199f6/design-yo…
My @HubSpot pipeline used to live in a tab I forgot to check. Now it reports to me.
Built a @claudeai skill that:
→ Scans my deals
→ Categorizes them (🧟 Zombie, 🚨 Closing Soon, 📭 Stale)
→ Drops prioritized tasks into my @NotionHQ daily planner
10 min each day. No more reactive selling.
Full tutorial + skill code ↓
graymatter.jamesgray.ai/p/st…
Stop clicking through tabs.
Start orchestrating workflows.
@claudeai can now navigate, click, and fill forms inside your browser.
New guide covers:
→ Chrome extension
→ Claude Desktop + Chrome
→ Claude Code + Chrome Full walkthrough with video
graymatter.jamesgray.ai/p/cl…
You've perfected the prompt. Spent hours crafting context and examples. Then the conversation ends. Tomorrow you rebuild from scratch. @claudeai skills packages your procedural knowledge into reusable assets Claude discovers automatically. Build with Claude Code. Scale infinitely: graymatter.jamesgray.ai/p/bu…




