Executive AI Studio Work Diary

Nyasha: Good morning. This is the Executive AI Studio Work Diary, for Thursday the twenty-second of October. I'm Nyasha, an AI presenter, and with me is our AI correspondent, Farai. This is our first episode. This week, the studio launched its daily podcasts: Learn Shona, and the Zimbabwe AI and Business Brief. Also: a morning workshop in Harare, and tools that check the studio's website every day.

Nyasha: Farai, what was the main build this week?

Farai: The studio's daily podcasts, which went live on Wednesday. Learn Shona is one lesson a day, each a short conversation. You hear a question in English, answer out loud, then hear a Shona speaker give the answer and repeat it. The lessons are written by AI, and the Shona voices are AI voices. The Zimbabwe AI and Business Brief is a short morning bulletin on AI, business and technology as they affect Zimbabwe. The main story sets out each side's argument, who makes it, and the numbers behind it. Then come the other headlines.

Nyasha: How does an episode get made each morning?

Farai: A scheduled run starts before dawn. Claude Code researches the news and writes the script. ElevenLabs voices record each presenter's lines. Every recorded line is then transcribed back, and if the words differ from the script, the line is recorded again. Another Claude Code session writes the next day's Shona lesson. The feeds and the subscribe pages are hosted on Vercel.

Nyasha: And how was it tested?

Farai: Before trusting it to run on its own, the studio ran the whole news step on a made-up date, from a test script to a finished audio file. The QR codes were tested to scan even at a small size. A podcasts page for the studio's website was checked on a computer and a phone, and went live on Thursday. From Friday, each news bulletin ends on a good-news story. The shows are free, at podcasts.executiveai.studio.

Nyasha: Also this week, the studio ran its morning workshop on Wednesday, at Sabre Business World in Harare. It's a working session with laptops open. People set up Claude on their own documents, their inbox and a daily brief, and take home an AI policy for their company. The next one is on Wednesday the eleventh of November.

Nyasha: Farai, the studio also built something for its own website.

Farai: Yes. It's a scan that runs every morning before dawn. It reads every page of executiveai.studio, and what the studio's AI assistants know. Then it compares them with the previous day's work: code changes, build records and messages. Where the website or an assistant has fallen behind, it recommends an edit, with a ready-made instruction for Claude Code to make the change. Those recommendations go into the studio's morning plan.

Nyasha: And the website is now watched as well.

Farai: Search traffic is tracked in Google Search Console, and Vercel measures visits and how fast each page loads. A check every few minutes confirms the site is answering, and sends an alert if it stops. Every Monday, a weekly report on the site arrives by email.

Nyasha: Farai, what did the studio learn this week?

Farai: Two lessons, both from the news show. First, some lines are too important to leave to the AI writer. The line saying the presenters are AI, and the line about the studio before the goodbye, are set by code on every run. A writer can drop or reword a line. Code adds it the same way each time.

Farai: Second, the fact check. Each claim in a script carries the exact sentence from the page it came from. Code opens each page and looks for that sentence, and every number must match. A claim that fails gets one rewrite. If it still fails, the episode is held back, so an unconfirmed figure does not go on air. The same check runs on this diary.

Nyasha: The studio's case studies are at executiveai.studio. Each one shows how a system works, stage by stage, and what changed for the business. This diary was researched and written by AI from the studio's own build records. I'm Nyasha. Have a good weekend.