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Emmanuel Lavoie discusses building a near-autonomous content pipeline using Claude Cowork and Obsidian.

In this episode of ThriveCast, we speak with Emmanuel Lavoie, CEO of Jetstream Hospitality Solutions — a Canadian, commission-based tech-enabled service company that helps hotels and resorts reach distribution channels like Airbnb and Vrbo. Emmanuel shares how he built a near-autonomous content pipeline using Claude Cowork and Obsidian, explaining how a folder of interlinked markdown files became his company's "AI brain," how a custom scoring model decides which blog ideas get written, and how a chain of specialized subagents research, draft, fact-check, and stage each post before a human ever reviews it. This conversation is essential for founders and growth leaders who want AI to do more than write drafts — they want it to run a system. Key Insights * The vision was a “self-driving business,” not a chatbot. Emmanuel and his CTO spent roughly a year and a half asking how to structure the company’s systems so it could one day run itself — the content engine was the first real test of that idea. * Obsidian is just a folder of markdown files. Emmanuel is explicit that there’s no magic in the tool itself — Obsidian simply renders a folder of interlinked text files in a more readable…

People in this episode

Guest: Emmanuel Lavoie

Topics covered

• content creation
• AI in business
• automation
• entrepreneurship
• content strategy

Keywords

• content engine
• AI brain
• markdown files
• blog ideas
• self-driving business

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jetstream Hospitality Solutions, Airbnb, Vrbo

Products: Claude Cowork, Obsidian

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