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I do not have a $200 or $100 AI plan. I have a $20 Claude Code account and about $35 of my own — so I made Claude Code orchestrate cheaper agents instead of writing code itself. Here is the setup and the economics.
How I built a WhatsApp cheque-settlement bot for a distribution business — GPT-4o Vision OCR, party matching, and writing receipt vouchers straight into their Busy accounting software.
A small, focused automation I built in about two weeks for a US department-store chain — matching the cash in each store's register against QuickBooks and flagging the discrepancies that matter.
An early AI project — a pipeline that scrapes a novel, cleans and translates it, generates a voiceover and images, stitches a video with FFmpeg, and uploads it straight to YouTube.
