How I built an AI chief of staff for $25 a day

For 20 years, I built my career on the business side of startups: sales, marketing , customer success, operations—areas where I never needed to learn coding or build something myself. My CEO role grew beyond my domain of expertise to span the company’s full operations, and I needed a way to keep up. After using Claude for almost a year, I started with Claude Code and realized I could replace the traditional functions of a human chief of staff with an AI solution.