Dan Brown / workshop

Digital workshop

Builder. Tinkerer. Lifelong learner.

Exploring how AI can make complex work more accessible, helping more people build, create and solve problems they previously could not.

This is a collection of projects, experiments, lessons and systems built in public.

See current experimentsWhat I’m learning

Right now

Current experiments

Small, in-progress bets. Some will ship, some will get quietly parked — both outcomes are worth recording.

  • Voice to workflow

    Active

    Turning a spoken description of a task into a working automation, no manual setup required.

    AI agentsAutomation

  • Local-first notes sync

    Active

    Testing how far a local-first architecture can go before you actually need a backend.

    SystemsObsidian

  • Reusable prompt libraries

    Paused

    A structured way to store, version and reuse prompts across projects instead of rewriting them each time.

    AI agentsTooling

  • Guardrails for autonomous agents

    Shipped

    Small, practical checks that keep an AI agent inside its lane without slowing it down.

    AI agentsSafety

Living journal

What I’m learning

Most of my work starts with curiosity. I enjoy exploring how people can use AI and automation to tackle ideas that previously felt too technical, time consuming or complex.

This section becomes a living journal of discoveries, lessons and practical applications.

  • Building

    Multi-agent orchestration

    How to split a complex task across several small agents without losing track of what each one is doing.

  • Exploring

    Local-first architecture

    Rethinking how much of an app can live on-device before you actually need a server.

  • Exploring

    Design systems for AI products

    What changes in a design system when part of the interface is generated rather than fixed.

  • Shipped

    Guardrails for autonomous tools

    Practical, lightweight checks that keep automated systems safe without slowing them down.

Built & shipped

Featured projects

Each one covers the problem, the approach, the outcome and what it taught me.

Digital Workshop

This website — a public record of what I'm building and learning.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSFramer Motion
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Context Router

A lightweight tool for routing the right context into an AI agent's prompt.

TypeScriptNode.jsVector search
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Automation Playbooks

A collection of documented, repeatable automations for everyday admin work.

ZapierPythonMarkdown
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Field notes

Workshop notes

Short write-ups on what worked, what didn’t, and what I’d do differently next time.

Get in touch

Let’s build something worth writing about

Open to conversations about AI, automation and building in public. Find me at any of these.