“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow.”

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, ESV

I'll tell you where I stand up front. My faith is my compass, and it keeps pointing me to one thing: nobody climbs alone. I'm figuring this AI stuff out as a regular guy, and whatever I learn, I want to pass back down the rope so we all get a little higher together.

AI for the rest of us

We win together.

If I can do this, you can.

I'm Chris. A dad, regular guy, not a tech person. About a month ago I started building AI helpers at my kitchen table, mostly after the house got quiet. I mess up a lot. I'm putting it all here so nobody gets left behind.

Chris Naylon and his younger son grinning in a selfie by the water on a cloudy afternoon.
Chris Naylon, smiling, in a red shirt.
Chris NaylonDad, numbers guy, building this one step at a time. More at chrisnaylon.com

Hold the rope.

Climbers tie in together. If one slips, the others hold the rope. That's how I want to learn this.

I want to lift others while we climb. I'm not at the top of anything. I'm a few feet up, and I can reach back. You don't have to be good at this. You just have to start. I'll show you my mess along the way.

Nervous about your data? Me too.

Two ways to do AI

A lot of AI out there feels like a movie. Green code raining down a screen. A hundred bots at once. Big words. Fancy logos. Big promises. It can make a regular person feel like it's not for them.

That's not how I do it.

You don't need a lab coat. You need one thing that bugs you.

Step 1 · One bot

Start with the thing that bugs you.

For me it was bills. I let one bot read them and line them up against what my card already offers. It noticed a streaming bill was going to the wrong card. I already had a card with a credit for it. Moving it took me one click, maybe five seconds. I sat there thinking, was it really that easy?

Step 2 · Five bots

Then I got curious.

I wasn't chasing money. I wanted to see what it could do. So I added a few more and let them compare notes.

Step 3 · Nine bots

A team for the everyday stuff.

Nine bots now, each with one job. Bills, perks, habits, privacy. They’re still designed to ask before they act.

It's OK to fail.

Plenty of what I built broke. Some of it twice. I still don't always know what I'm doing. That's fine. Exploring comes first. Learning comes first. The rest can wait.

Chris Naylon with two of his sons on a dock, the older one holding a football, the younger one a fishing rod.

See it work

No movie. No mock-up. These are the actual files Unbundle wrote during one of our test runs, on a practice folder full of dummy files.

Screenshot of real Unbundle report files from a test run on a practice folder: a numbered preview list of twelve dummy files, largest first, and three scratch files listed for you to handle.
Step 2 preview, real files from a test run on a practice folder of dummy files. Nothing changed yet. It waits for your yes, one item at a time.
Screenshot of a real Unbundle archive manifest from a test run on a practice folder: three dummy files you said yes to, each with its size, a fingerprint, the time you approved it, and one marked restored.
After three yeses and one undo. Every move is logged and backed up, and “restore item 1” put the file back.

Test runs use practice folders only. No personal data is in these screenshots.

What's here today

Here's what you can use or learn from today. All of it is free, all of it is plain words, and all of it is still learning, just like me.

Free skill · Still in testing

Unbundle

Paste in someone else's bot text. It's designed to read it as data only, flag red flags and keep only what's new to you. Then it can tidy files your bot doesn't seem to use, one yes at a time, with undo.

See how Unbundle works

Free guide

Your first helper

Four steps in plain English: pick one thing, keep it read-only, ask in your own words, look before you act. It's how I started.

Read the four steps

How I do it

The helper team

My nine helpers run at my own house, each with one job: bills, mail, health habits, fine print and more. I share how they're set up and what they find, so you can build your own.

Meet the team

Plain questions

What is a personal AI helper?

Think of it as a bot that reads one part of your life, like your bills, and tells you what it notices. Mine line my bills up against what my card already offers.

Can AI find credit card benefits I'm not using?

It did for me. One bot read my bills and pointed out a $25-a-month streaming credit our card already included. It’s now put to use.

Will it spend money or switch things without asking?

Mine are designed not to. They read first and ask before they do anything. Nothing sends or buys without my OK, and posts on my personal accounts wait for my yes.

Do I need to be a tech person?

No. I'm not. I started with one bot for the thing that bugged me most, and added more one step at a time.