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Braindock

A digital product, and the factory that makes its ads.

I shipped a paid product end to end, page to checkout to delivery, then built a pipeline that renders eight branded promo reels from a single JSON spec.

The product is a structured, template-driven knowledge system sold as a portable folder, built that way on purpose so it outlives any single AI subscription. Around it I built the full self-serve funnel: a landing page, email capture, checkout on every call to action, and gated delivery of the download. The whole checkout-to-delivery path was rehearsed in test mode before the live payment link went on, and the deploy sat behind a multi-point verification checklist.

The part I am proudest of is the ad-reel factory. Instead of editing promos by hand, one JSON spec defines the hooks, captions and structure, and the system compiles and renders each variant programmatically to a locked brand voice and visual style, then hands them back for a human QA pass. It turns "make an ad" into "write one spec, get a week of content," which is the same instinct the rest of my work runs on: find the repetitive manual process and make it a documented, config-driven pipeline.

  • end-to-end product shipping
  • conversion funnel
  • payment integration
  • programmatic video rendering
  • spec-driven automation
  • brand-voice systemization

multi-week build

What it actually took. Shipping the product was not the hard part; getting a stranger to trust a checkout was. The reel factory came out of a blunt realisation that I could not out-post a hand-editing schedule, so the content had to be manufactured, not made. Building the machine that makes the ads turned out to be more valuable than any single ad.