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I'm Ryan Lenk. I help small businesses and e-commerce stores get found and cited by AI. I'm the operator, not the theorist. Most people teaching "get found by AI" have never done it to a business they actually answer for. Here's my lab: my mom's boutique, Krafty Bandit. A real Shopify store with real products, real customers, and a real budget (which is to say, almost none). In mid-2026 I took the kind of technical SEO playbook that usually lives behind enterprise retainers and ran the whole thing on her shop, by hand and with a team of Claude-based AI workflows I built myself.

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22h ago

Candor: Open-Source AI "Employee" Skills - Based off of real human psychological archetypes

Candor is my free, MIT-licensed Claude Code plugin: twelve work-mode "personas" that make an AI assistant direct, verification-driven, and honest instead of agreeable. A debugging persona that demands a reproduction before guessing. A data persona that reads numbers skeptically. A decision persona willing to say no. Each one is documented, benchmarked with eval scripts, and installable in minutes.
I built it because of what I learned running AI workflows on a real business (my mom's Shopify boutique, the Krafty Bandit project below): the failure mode of AI at work is not wrong answers, it is confident agreement. The workflows that shipped 2,861 catalog fixes in one weekend only worked because every call got checked by a human, and Candor bakes that discipline into the assistant itself. The repo includes twelve skill definitions, evals with published benchmark results, full documentation, and contribution guidelines.
It is labeled experimental (v0.5.x) and actively maintained. Free forever. It is also the companion tool for my YouTube channel, where I show the personas doing real work on a live store. github.com/itsryanlenk/candor
See more at my website https://www.ryanlenk.com where I log my whole journey giving the inside and sometimes not so glamorous stats behind SEO.
Try them out and let me know what you think!

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22h ago

I'm building an open source GEO/AEO SEO tool based on my workflow.

Very excited to announce that tomorrow I'll be making the repo public for everyone to be able to run a very close version of my personal playbook.

All you'll need is a google places API key from google cloud services & Claude CLI.

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6d ago

I'm Ryan Lenk. I help small businesses and e-commerce stores get found and cited by AI.

I'm excited to see what everyone is building here & see what I can learn.
Most people teaching "get found by AI" have never done it to a business they actually answer for.
Here's my lab: my mom's boutique, Krafty Bandit. A real Shopify store with real products, real customers, and a real budget (which is to say, almost none). In mid-2026 I took the kind of technical SEO playbook that usually lives behind enterprise retainers and ran the whole thing on her shop, by hand and with a team of Claude-based AI workflows I built myself.