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Builder's Brief

One email a month. Built for the people actually shipping this stuff.

No "AI in lending is transformative" think-pieces. Just a new prompt that works, a tool teardown, one case study, and a short note on what I shipped on LendWithAI this month. Read in under 10 minutes.

Free tier Free

Highlights, once a month

  • The headline prompt of the month (1 new prompt, fully worked).
  • A one-paragraph preview of the tool teardown.
  • Links to everything new on the site.

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Paid tier $12/mo or $99/yr

The full brief, plus the back catalogue

  • Everything in Free, uncut.
  • The full tool teardown (usually the most opinionated piece).
  • The month's case study — real (anonymised) lender workflow, signals caught or missed.
  • A quarterly "state of AI in lending" longform.
  • Access to the full archive.
  • Reader-only discount codes on products.

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Why paid?

Two honest reasons. One, a paid tier funds the time I spend on the case studies and teardowns — the parts that take the longest and have the most signal. Two, paid readers give better feedback than free ones, which shapes what gets written next. The $12 is genuinely a fair exchange, not a marketing gate.

If you're not sure, start on the free tier. Paid is never pushed in the free emails beyond a small footer link. I'd rather have 10,000 engaged free readers and 200 paid ones than 3,000 free readers who feel sold to every week.

What an issue looks like

A representative snapshot of the format — not a real back issue. Issue #1 lands when the first cohort of subscribers is onboarded.

Builder's Brief · Format preview

The prompt of the month: catching "creative" income verification where statements look internally consistent but are fabrications from a shared template. The tool teardown: three bank-statement parsers compared on the same 20-file corpus. The case study: what a mid-size consumer lender learned rolling out an AI fraud scorecard.

Each issue runs 180–350 words at the free tier and 1,200–2,000 words at the paid tier. No think-pieces, no "AI is transformative" framing. Just the prompt, the teardown, the case study, and what shipped.

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