Kraig Adams
The Manhattan skyline at dusk under a pink sky

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How I make things: my hiking films, the guides, and the AI tools and systems behind them, one topic per note.

  1. Latest noteYouTube & films Making my Türkiye Black Sea film: from AI cuts to my own final edit The behind the scenes of my sponsored film from Türkiye's Black Sea coast: a 100-minute rough cut, an editor's first cut, Claude's cuts built around my voice, and the two passes in Final Cut where I took it back and made it mine.

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  1. YouTube & films Making and launching a 7-hour hiking film with AI The behind the scenes of my new 7-hour ambient film: the three-hour montage AI built first, how I steered it into twelve whole films, the music and its thirty copyright claims, the thumbnail, and the launch.
  2. YouTube & films All the music in my films, in one searchable library Claude found 867 songs I've used or licensed over years of films and logged where each one is used, so I can find music fast, see what I've already used and fix copyright claims.
  3. AI & tools Inbox zero with AI: brand pitches sorted, quoted and filed How Claude takes my inbox to zero without deleting anything: every email filed in KraigOS first, brand pitches sorted, and nothing sent without my yes.
  4. AI & tools I built my own operating system for my creator business KraigOS is the small system Claude and I built to run my one-person business: one database I own, a few tools and one AI routine. Why, and what it does.
  5. AI & tools KraigOS: one AI routine runs my inbox, calendar and files One Claude routine files my email, keeps my calendar and handles my files every 4 hours, and brings me one list to review. How it works, and what day one taught me.
  6. Gear Which one is really me? An AI voice clone blind test The same passage read four ways. One is me, three are AI copies of my voice. Listen and guess, then see which voice I'm using now and why.
  7. Shorts & social What 201 Facebook reels taught me about short hiking videos I pulled the numbers on all 201 reels on my Facebook Page. One real moment beat montages, map reels won, and 43 shorts in two days backfired.
  8. YouTube & films How I translate my YouTube films into six languages with AI Claude translates my YouTube titles and descriptions into six languages, with every link and timestamp locked so it can't break them. 58 films in one day.
  9. YouTube & films How I moved 10 years of YouTube films into Google Drive With Google Takeout and Claude, the original file of all 249 films on my YouTube channel is now in Google Drive, one folder per trip, every shot searchable.
  10. Shorts & social I studied 700 Acatenango videos to remake one short Claude studied the most-viewed Acatenango videos on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. Almost all are one shot of Fuego erupting. So I remade my short that way.
  11. Shorts & social How I make animated hiking route maps from my own GPS tracks Claude and I turn my GPS tracks, open terrain data and clips from my films into split-screen route map videos. How they're built and how they're doing.
  12. Guides How I keep my AI-built hiking guides accurate, season to season Before a hiking guide of mine goes on sale, a second AI checks it against official sources. Each season the dated facts are checked again, free for buyers.
  13. AI & tools How I cloned my voice with AI, and why it only says my words My narrated shorts use an AI copy of my voice, made with Artlist and now ElevenLabs. It only reads lines I said in my films and guides.
  14. Guides How AI worked out my hiking gear from my own photos Claude read the camera data in my trip photos and what I say in my films to list the gear I carried on each route. 40 of my 62 hiking guides have it now.
  15. GuidesUpdated How I make my hiking guides with AI, from my own films and GPS My 58 hiking guides are built with AI from my own films, GPS tracks and notes, checked by a second AI, and sold as PDFs with GPX files of each route.

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