How the founder of Morning Brew built a Claude content machine that never runs out of ideas and never sounds like slop | Alex Lieberman
How I AI
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How the founder of Morning Brew built a Claude content machine that never runs out of ideas and never sounds like slop | Alex Lieberman
How the founder of Morning Brew built a Claude content machine that never runs out of ideas and never sounds like slop | Alex Lieberman

How I AI
1 DAYS AGO
Alex Lieberman, co-founder of Morning Brew and now CEO of Tenex, shares his detailed framework for building an AI-powered content machine that avoids generic output. He explains how he uses Claude to create a multi-step system that generates ideas, interviews him for his real thoughts, and drafts posts in his authentic voice, all while turning his employees into a powerful marketing channel through internal competitions.
Lieberman argues that poor AI output reflects poor user input, not the technology itself. He built a six-step Content Machine in Claude to overcome the blank page problem and produce content that sounds like him. The system starts with an Oracle that scans internal systems and the internet for content spikes. After selecting an idea, an Interview Panel uses codified personas to interview him, and he dictates answers via voice-to-text. A personal style guide and lessons file ensure drafts match his voice, while a Writer's Council scores and revises posts until they reach a 10/10. Lieberman emphasizes that the interview step, not drafting, is where AI slop originates, so the machine uses only his words from transcripts. Beyond AI, he advocates for employee advocacy through the Tenex Creator Cup, a $5,000 internal competition that turns content creation into a team sport. He defines a great engineer in the AI era as someone with deep system understanding and adaptability to agentic workflows.
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Poor output reflects the user's input, not the AI.
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Employees are a company's best marketing channel
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AI can raise the floor but cap the ceiling for great writers
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Subject matter expertise is essential for reimagining work with AI.
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A Writer's Council scores and revises posts until they reach a perfect 10/10.
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Avoiding AI slop by training the machine on personal interview transcripts
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Encouraging employees to build personal brands is a strong value proposition.
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Deep system understanding with agentic adaptability.
