Writing

I write build logs about the systems I ship, and essays for executive assistants navigating AI — because I’m still one of them. Everything lives on graceesteban.com.

Technical

• How I Fixed My App's 4-Hour Audio Limit with AWS Lambda and Claude Code ↗The build log behind BoardBreeze's marathon-meeting support: serverless audio splitting for cents per file.
• How I Built an AI Assistant for City College Board Meetings — Without Being a Professional ↗Scraping twenty years of public board records and turning them into a RAG chatbot anyone can question.
• I Built the Customer Success Team I Couldn't Afford ↗Why a solo founder put Claude on the phones — the BoardBreeze Concierge story.
• From Board Meeting Nightmares to Dreams: How I Built an AI-Powered Meeting Minutes App ↗The origin story of BoardBreeze, told from the chair where the minutes used to get taken by hand.

For executive assistants

• The Truth About AI, Executive Assistants and Our Future — From Someone Still Doing the Work ↗What AI actually changes for assistants, written by one who builds it and still does the job.
• Breaking Out of the Email Fortress: An Assistant's Adventure Back into the Wild ↗On leaving the inbox long enough to remember why the work matters.