April 27, 2026
Hey John — good talking last week. You mentioned you're interested in building with AI — and you're already building apps for nursing homes to cut down on manual work. This page is a quick look behind the curtain of how I work day-to-day with Claude Code, plus a handful of concrete ideas for your nursing home vertical.
Jump to nursing home ideasClaude Code isn't a chatbot you copy-paste from. It's a teammate you give an outcome to. You describe what you want — it figures out the steps, writes the code, tests it, ships it, and tells you when it's done.
Describe the goal in plain English, like talking to a contractor. It asks clarifying questions before anything gets built.
Before any real code, it writes a small check that proves the feature works. That way you know when it's actually done — not just when it looks done.
Often doing several pieces at the same time, in parallel, while you're doing something else. One piece writes the feature, another reviews it, another ships it.
What worked, what your preferences are, the conventions of this project. Next session it doesn't ask you to re-explain.
Claude knows when a task is small (a one-line tweak) vs. big (a new feature). It picks a fast, cheap helper for the small stuff and a careful, thorough one for the big stuff. You don't manage that — it just happens.
Preferences, project conventions, decisions from past conversations. You don't re-explain "we use this email account for that, that account for the other thing" every time. It's already in the system.
Every change runs a battery of automatic checks before you see it. If something's broken, it pauses and tells you. You're not playing detective on bugs at 11pm.
Not toys. Live websites, real apps, real customers. The page you're reading right now was built and deployed in about 20 minutes the same way.
A full pitch page like this one — figuring out the design, writing every word, building it, putting it on the internet — takes about 20 minutes. Not because I type fast. Because most of it runs in parallel while I do something else.
You mentioned you're building small applications to reduce manual work for nursing home staff. These are five specific ideas grounded in the real pain points of that environment — each one you could build yourself with Claude Code, or we could build together.
"CNAs dictate their end-of-shift notes. AI structures them, flags what changed, routes alerts to the incoming RN."
The shift handoff is one of the riskiest moments in a care facility — information gets lost, verbal reports get rushed, and critical changes since the last shift slip through. Right now most CNAs type or handwrite notes under time pressure at the end of a 12-hour shift. Voice dictation + AI structuring turns a 20-minute documentation grind into 90 seconds of talking while walking out.
"Nurses speak resident updates room-to-room. AI parses them into structured ADL and mood records."
Activities of Daily Living documentation is mandatory, repetitive, and hated. Staff write the same information twice — once on a clipboard, once in the EHR. A phone mic + Claude turns the clipboard step into the EHR step.
"Weekly plain-English family updates drafted from care notes, approved in one click."
Most facilities have a standing expectation to communicate with families weekly. A director of nursing often spends Sunday afternoon writing personalized updates. This generates a draft from existing care notes with a single nurse-approval step before sending.
"Scans progress notes for missing required fields before the state surveyor shows up."
State surveys can cost a facility thousands in citations for documentation deficiencies that are entirely preventable. The auditor scans notes against state-specific survey rules and flags gaps with enough lead time to fix them. Most facilities have zero tooling for this.
"Grounded in the facility's own handbook. New hires ask questions, get correct answers, stop interrupting charge nurses."
Onboarding turnover in nursing homes is brutal. New CNAs and aides interrupt charge nurses constantly with questions that are answered in the handbook — which nobody reads fully. A RAG-based chat grounded in the facility's own policies handles the 80% of questions that are already answered somewhere.
Three modes, depending on how you want to work. No pitch here — just options.
You're already building. I can be a thinking partner — reviewing what you're building, helping you think through AI integration, and showing you the Claude Code patterns that'll save you the most time in your stack.
Pick one of the ideas above. We run a focused build session — a few hours, a working prototype in your hands. A real proof-of-concept you can take to a facility for feedback, not a mockup.
The Exponential Advisor work your dad is building is about exactly this kind of leverage. If you want to explore what a nursing-home-focused AI product looks like at real scale, that's a conversation worth having together.
Nursing home staff are some of the most overworked, underpaid people in healthcare. Tools that cut even 20 minutes of paperwork per shift make a real difference in their days. That's worth building well.
This page was built the same way I described — designed, written, deployed, and DNS'd in about 20 minutes using Claude Code.