Why I Build My Own AI Assistant
I work in AI strategy at a large bank. I spend my days figuring out how 7,000 people should adopt AI tools. And then I come home and build my own. This isn’t a contradiction. It’s the same instinct: I don’t trust anything I haven’t built (or at least taken apart). The setup The core is n8n — an open-source workflow automation tool running on my home server. On top of it, I’ve built what I call the Family Bot: an orchestrator that connects WhatsApp and Telegram to a set of sub-agents, each handling a different domain. ...