Hands-on build guides with free AI tools, the latest in AI, and Forward Deployed Engineer playbooks — written for engineers who ship.
Build a zero-cost lead-enrichment pipeline that takes a CSV of domains, scrapes live company data, and uses Gemini to generate detailed prospect profiles. Free-tier tools only.
Engineer a personalized newsletter agent that curates RSS feeds using Groq's Llama 3.3 and Supabase. A copy-pasteable guide to ranking articles and sending digests on free-tier tools.
Build a multi-agent research system that plans queries, scrapes the web via Serper's free tier, and synthesizes cited briefs using Llama 3.3 on Groq. Pure free-tier stack.
Build a Python system-tray app that auto-summarizes and translates any text you copy using Google Gemini's free API tier. Full code, zero-cost architecture, and engineer-to-engineer walkthrough included.
Engineer a zero-cost daily standup bot that DMs your team for updates, persists them in Supabase, and uses Groq's LLM to post a synthesized summary to Slack every morning.
Turn raw bank CSV exports into a categorized spending dashboard with free LLMs. This guide uses OpenRouter free models, Pandas, and Streamlit to build a privacy-first finance categorizer.
Deploy a production-grade WhatsApp bot that answers questions from your docs. Uses Cloudflare Workers AI, Pinecone free tier, and TypeScript—all free to run.
Build a Python agent that ingests your base resume and a job description, then uses Gemini's free tier to rewrite bullet points and output an ATS-optimized LaTeX PDF—all for free.
Build a local-first RAG chatbot that answers questions from PDFs and markdown notes with source citations using Groq, Qdrant free tier, LlamaIndex, and Streamlit.
Turn UI screenshots into live HTML/CSS with a local pipeline. Use LLaVA via Ollama for vision-to-code generation and Playwright for instant previews, all running free on your machine.
Engineer an AI bot that parses meeting requests, checks Google Calendar, and auto-negotiates times via Gmail using Gemini free tier, n8n, and GCP free credits.
Script a free Python tool that chunks lecture PDFs or Markdown notes and uses Groq's free Llama-3.1-70B to generate high-signal question-answer pairs in Anki CSV format, ready for import.
Build a planner-searcher-writer agent system using Google Gemini Flash's free tier. Decompose topics, fetch live web results via SerpAPI, and synthesize structured briefs with Python and LangChain.
Build a Python pipeline that ingests messy PDF invoices and receipts, extracts text with PyPDF2, and structures it into clean JSON using Google Gemini Flash's free tier. No paid APIs required.
Ship a text-to-SQL agent that translates plain English into Postgres queries using LlamaIndex and Groq's free Llama 3 70B. Step-by-step code, zero-cost infra, and production tips.
Wire up a fully local, zero-cost voice assistant in your terminal. We'll chain Whisper STT, Ollama (Llama 3), and Piper TTS with Python to build a talking CLI.
Build a script that reads a prospect CSV, scrapes their LinkedIn or website with Firecrawl's free tier, and generates hyper-personalized cold email opening lines using Groq's free Llama 3 70B API.
Stop manually tagging transactions. Use Ollama, Python, and a local LLM to auto-categorize bank CSVs. A free, private, step-by-step engineering guide with real code.
Wire up a free AI agent that answers WhatsApp support queries using your own documentation. We use n8n for automation, Qdrant for vector search, and Groq's fast Llama inference—all on free tiers.
Turn UI screenshots into clean HTML/CSS with a free CLI agent. We wire Playwright to Google Gemini Vision's free tier so you can go from pixel to code in seconds.
Engineer a zero-cost content repurposing pipeline: download YouTube audio with yt-dlp, transcribe with OpenAI Whisper, and generate SEO-ready blog posts via Google Gemini's free tier. Full Python code included.
Ship an automated code reviewer that spots bugs, security flaws, and style issues on every pull request. Uses GitHub Actions, Cloudflare Workers AI free tier, and Octokit—zero cost, full control.
Index your entire Notion workspace using the API, store embeddings in Pinecone's free tier, and build a RAG chatbot with Groq's Llama 3.1 8B. Full code, zero cost.
Build a hands-on lead enrichment agent that scrapes company websites from a CSV of domains, then enriches each with AI summaries and ICP scoring—all using free-tier tools.
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