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The Thursday 3  ·  Issue 1  ·  Thursday, May 7, 2026

Three workflows that put you in the top 1% of CEOs.

Welcome to issue one. The three workflows below are the ones making the biggest difference at Headphones.com and Lantern.is this month.

01  ·  Workflow

A Claude that gets smarter with every session

The outcome
Stop re-explaining the same context every new session. /recall pulls relevant chunks from your notes (Obsidian, meeting summaries, project docs, strategy memos) into the chat in under a second.
The setup
Two local tools, no cloud. QMD (the open-source local search engine by Tobi Lütke) indexes any folder of markdown notes you point it at. /recall is a custom slash command in Claude Code that runs QMD against your current question and feeds the top results back into the session.
Your move
Install QMD, point it at your notes folder, build the index, add the /recall command, and run it once on a real project. Stop when you've watched it pull correct context. 30 minutes.
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02  ·  Workflow

Work that runs while you sleep

The outcome
A weekly task you used to do yourself runs on Anthropic's servers with your laptop closed. SEO audit, pipeline review, competitor scrape, board-prep digest. It runs whether you're in a meeting or on a flight.
The setup
Build the workflow once in Claude Code. Point it at a trigger (daily, weekly, on-event), wire any third-party APIs you need (CRM, analytics, email), then deploy it as a Routine. Anthropic runs it on their infrastructure on schedule.
Your move
Pick one recurring task on your calendar this week: lead scoring, expense review, Monday metrics digest. Build it in Claude Code, test it manually once, deploy it as a Routine before Friday. 60-90 minutes.
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03  ·  Workflow

Mine your meetings for leverage

The outcome
Turn every meeting you record in Granola into searchable, AI-readable markdown. Once your conversations live as text Claude can read, every other workflow gets cheaper: Monday pipeline pulls, customer-theme tracking, promise-keeping, sales coaching, board-prep digests. Each one is a single prompt away.
The setup
Two pieces. Granola already records and transcribes; export the transcripts to markdown into a folder Claude can read (your Obsidian vault works perfectly). Point QMD at the same folder (workflow #1) so transcripts join your notes in one searchable index. The pattern: meetings → markdown → everything.
Your move
Export your last 30 days of Granola transcripts to markdown. Drop them in your notes folder. Run qmd embed. Then ask Claude something specific you'd never ask in a normal session. "What's the most common objection I'm hearing from CTOs this month?" Or "list every commitment I made on customer calls last week." 30 minutes.
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Andrew
P.S. All three of these landed in the last month. The harness shifts faster than the calendar; the CEOs who install on the week-of are the ones compounding.
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