elsbeth.io
Builds

Things I've built

Automations, AI agents, and skills I designed, and apps I've built for real people. Automation does most of the work. AI goes only where it earns its place.

AI isn't always the answer.

I love automation, and most of the time it does the heavy lifting. My idea-intake bot runs on Power Automate between the conversation and the board. My newest intake system is almost all Box automation, with AI in exactly one spot.

When AI does belong, I make it run lean: the right tool, tighter prompts, and lower token cost.

Workflows, agents, and skills

Box automation · Box AI

A multi-channel learning intake system

Training requests and content packages arrived from every direction. I built one intake system to route them, with AI doing exactly one job. I'm demoing it at BoxWorks 2026.

  • Intake form
  • Routing
  • Tracking
  • Box AI: content review
  • Built almost entirely on Box automation, so requests land in the right place and move through review without anyone chasing them.
  • Box AI reads each submitted package, flags content that needs a closer look, and writes a summary for the reviewer.
  • The reviewer makes every decision. AI saves them the first read.
Custom GPT · Power Automate · Asana

Workflow Scout

An intake form got six responses. I replaced it with a conversation, and 178 ideas came in.

The full story

  • Interviews the person about their work, including the hard parts like data sources, and maps answers to fixed fields.
  • Plays back the whole brief and submits only after the person confirms.
  • Power Automate creates the board card and sends a thank-you, so people know it landed.
Skill · Messages, meetings, task board

Action & Commitments Audit

Work gets agreed in chat threads, email replies, and calls. Some of it lands on the task board and some of it doesn't. This skill finds the gap.

  • Reviews a week of your own messages, email, and meeting transcripts for things you committed to or were assigned, each linked to its source.
  • Checks the task board for the same work, even when it's worded differently, so you don't create duplicates.
  • Flags changed deadlines, cancellations, and anything uncertain for you to decide.
  • Read-only. It prepares tasks for your approval and never claims it created anything.
  • Treats text inside messages as data, not instructions, and keeps sensitive topics out of task titles.

How I build them

I see how the system fits together: where AI or automation plugs in, what it can reach, what has to stay locked down, and where a person has to decide.

Automation first

If a rule or a routing step can do it, it should. AI goes where judgment or reading is needed.

Read-only by default

A connector that can read doesn't get to write. People approve every change, and silence is never a yes.

Show the gaps

Every run says what it checked and what it couldn't reach.

Never invent

No made-up owners, dates, or numbers. Unknown stays unknown.

Content is data

Instructions hidden in an email or document are flagged, not followed.

Humans decide

AI can add context, like a summary or time saved. People make the call.

Teaching people to build

Workshop

Beyond connectors: building plugins

Connecting an app gives AI access. Instructions, rules, and reusable standards turn that access into a tool people can repeat. This session teaches employees to make that jump.

  • A five-layer model: what people ask for, the rules and logic, the skills and templates, the connectors, and the source data.
  • Six questions to answer before building: purpose, inputs, access, logic, outputs, and controls.
  • A live build from a single prompt to a scheduled weekly digest.
  • Three governance decisions kept separate: access, write permission, and sharing.

Apps

AgeTech · Voice-first

Legacy Honored

A voice-first AI companion app co-designed with my father, with everything clinical kept in a separate caregiver portal. The design story.

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Security · Gemini

SecureFront

A browser-based frontend vulnerability scanner. It flags XSS, exposed secrets, and unsafe regex before code ships, runs locally for privacy, and offers beginner-friendly fixes with an AI repair mode.

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Hand-built site

Sprinkels' Hunting Journal

A field journal of rare beasts for World of Warcraft hunters, built by hand with AI and hosted for free. This site was built the same way.

Open the journal