SEED & SOCIETY™
FROM THE TRAIL
There's a change happening this week.
This month I start at a new company. On Friday I left the one I've spent the last year and a half with to start a new chapter and join a team that's deeply AI-forward, the kind of place that lets me operate the way I already do. It's the right move. I'm excited about it.
And I'm keeping Seed & Society™ running on 5 active hours a week.
This weekend I built the machine that makes those 5 hours count.
THE MAIN THING
What I Built This Weekend

EverFreely™ MVP. I built an app that finds me money. It's an AI agent that pulls up grants, fellowships, pitch competitions, speaking opportunities, sponsorships, and scholarships matched to your profile, scores them, drafts the applications in your voice, and submits it with a click. If there's funding with your name on it, the agent finds it. Under the hood: 11 opportunity types, a scoring engine, draft assembly, 70+ curated sources, and a live waitlist. Built with Claude Chat, Cowork, Code, and MindStudio's Remy. Waitlist open at everfreely.com.
Blog Agent. An automated publishing system that tracks AI content, scrapes transcripts, generates articles, creates images, and publishes daily to The Connectors Market™ without me touching anything. Same architecture that drove 520% traffic growth for another builder using this model.
Ultimate AI Tool List. Every tool I actually use, organized by category, with affiliate links where applicable. Live at my new resources page. The single source of truth for my stack.
Multi-languages for the podcast. Using Elevenlabs the podcast will now be available in Spanish and French. If there’s another language you think needs the message, respond and let me know!
Not AI generating content for me to review. AI building infrastructure that runs without me.
MORE MONEY, TIME, & OPTIONS
This Week on the Podcast

Season 2 launched Monday. Six episodes dropped at once. Friday brought Episode 7.
Start here based on where you are:
Episode 1: A.I. Is Moving at the Speed of Daily for the worldview
Episode 2: The New AI Playbook for Service-Based Business Owners for the upgrade
Episode 3: Non-Technical People Are Winning at A.I. Right Now for the confidence
Episode 4: Build It Once, Run It Forever to get your time back
Episode 5: How to Hire Your First A.I. Employee for the system
Episode 6: All About Claude: Chat, Co-work, and Code for Business Owners for what the tool actually does
Episode 7: A.I. Models Decoded for Business Owners for the model-selection logic
All episodes live on Apple, YouTube, Spotify, and wherever you listen.
🛠️ ONE THING TO DO TODAY
Visit the Resources Page
Every tool in the Seed & Society™ stack lives there now. Tested. Used. Recommended. If you're building with AI, it's the shortcut to the decisions I've already made for you.
Here's what's true. A year ago, building a working app with a live waitlist in one weekend wasn't possible for a solo operator without a development team at least $50k.
Now it is.
The distance between an idea and a working product has collapsed. The only variable left is whether you build.
Until next time, Continue planting the Seeds for a better Society
— Makeda
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