Descriptions:
Craig Hewitt, founder of the podcast hosting SaaS Castos, shares the Claude Code-based operating system he has built over six months that lets him compress what he estimates as eight hours of weekly executive work — content production, strategic decision-making, and business operations — into roughly 30 minutes. The core architecture relies on Claude Code skills: structured markdown files that function as standing operating procedures for recurring tasks, covering YouTube ideation, script outlining, social post repurposing, email sequences, team KPI reviews, and financial analysis.
The most distinctive element is Hewitt’s decision journal, a persistent context layer inside Claude Code where he logs every significant business decision alongside its rationale and outcome. By feeding this history back into Claude Code alongside live financial data pulled directly from Stripe, his bank, and Chartmogul, he effectively gives the model the institutional memory of a co-founder — enabling it to flag contradictions between current decisions and past commitments and to provide financially grounded recommendations rather than generic advice.
Hewitt has published his full skill library publicly on GitHub, making the setup reproducible for other operators. The video covers the content production pipeline in detail (from idea to finished YouTube script to multi-channel repurposing in about 20 minutes) and the CEO operating layer (financial review, team management, decision logging in about 10 minutes). It is most useful for founders and executives interested in building structured, stateful AI workflows rather than relying on one-off prompting.
📺 Source: Craig Hewitt · Published April 08, 2026
🏷️ Format: Workflow Case Study
