Episode
How I turned Claude into a self-improving PM assistant | Daniel Blum (PM, Melio)
- Podcast
- How I AI
- Published
- Aug 31, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2767
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-i-ai-7304222/episodes/how-i-turned-claude-into-a-self-improving-pm-assistant-daniel-blum-pm-melio/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-ai-7304222/how-i-turned-claude-into-a-self-improving-pm-assistant-daniel-blum-pm-melio.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Daniel Blum is a product manager at Melio, a B2B payments company, and one of the most systematic thinkers I’ve had on the show when it comes to personal AI infrastructure. He’s spent the past year building a Claude- and Cowork-based productivity system that manages his Notion board, processes his Slack and email, and runs self-improvement loops every week without needing to be prompted. Beyond his own workflow, Daniel built and scaled a “Workstation” onboarding plugin that gets any Melio employee up and running with a personalized Claude setup in about 15 minutes. What you’ll learn: Why Daniel says the two rules that make any AI system powerful aren’t about the tool you pick How his weekly prep automation fills an entire Notion board from scratch every Sunday, without his touching it The morning brief feature that teaches Claude new internal terms on its own, so company jargon never slows it down Why he describes Notion as “read-only” now, and what that says about how PM workflows are changing The self-improvement loop that watches Daniel’s edits, spots recurring friction, and suggests new skills to build How he uses a skill called “Improve” to filter the endless flood of AI tips without drowning in them What he built to scale his personal system to every PM at Melio, and the UX lesson he learned the hard way The capability gap that’s still keeping him from running 100% of his work through Claude — Brought to you by: Optimizely —Your AI agent orchestration platform for marketing and digital teams Jira AI SDLC —Get your tokens’ worth with Jira — In this episode, we cover: ( 00:00 ) Daniel’s background and the PM overhead problem he needed to solve ( 03:30 ) His AI stack at Melio ( 05:00 ) The two rules that make any AI system genuinely powerful ( 06:00 ) The Notion boa…