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🌱 The stories that aren't being told (and a way to tell them)

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The Connection Engine

🎯 I'm Jon Leland, AI Creative Director at ComBridges, with four decades of communications craft behind me. Every week I show the work: the tools, the judgment calls, and the systems behind amplifying a message that deserves an audience. It's for purpose-driven experts, authors, coaches, and business owners who'd rather spend their time on their work than on their marketing. Use AI well. Stay human. Build what matters.

In this issue

→ The stories that aren't being told
→ What building with AI opened up, for me and for others
→ Friday's replay
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Most life stories never get told.

A lot of us want to tell our story without losing the perspective of these decades of living. But a memoir can take years.

Life By Decade turns that into a few hours. You set your birth year, the decades fill in, and you place the moments that shaped you.

AI let me build it without writing code. I conceived it and directed it, and Lovable, an AI platform for building apps, did the building. This kind of thing used to take months and tens of thousands of dollars.

And it didn't stay mine. There are four Founding Members now, and the newest joined in the middle of Friday's live demo.

Life By Decades' features come from what people ask for. Captions came from one early user. Audio and video are on the near-term roadmap because someone asked on Friday.

I told the people on that call they're part of the seed here. AI opened a window for me, and Life By Decade is how I get to pass it on.

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Life by Decade is a fabulous way to reflect on your life journey. As I was adding events, I spontaneously remembered things that occurred that I'd totally forgotten.
— Nancy Monson, Life By Decade Founding Member
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Some of the stories that aren't being told are ones we've lost track of ourselves.

What untold story could your work help people tell? It might be your own, your clients' or your community's. If that idea appeals to you, reply and tell me. An AI creative director like me just might be able to help.

Here's Friday's replay. It includes the PDF book I made from my 31 life events while everyone watched.

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Your own Life By Decade timeline is free for your first 15 life events.

Use AI well. Stay human. Build what matters.

Jon Leland, AI Creative Director

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The Connection Engine

🎯 I'm Jon Leland, AI Creative Director at ComBridges, with four decades of communications craft behind me. Every week I show the work: the tools, the judgment calls, and the systems behind amplifying a message that deserves an audience. It's for purpose-driven experts, authors, coaches, and business owners who'd rather spend their time on their work than on their marketing. Use AI well. Stay human. Build what matters.