Chilliboys Manufacturing

Greg runs a metal shop in Mexico. Like every small business owner he has two chronic problems: the safety rules exist in regulations but not on paper where the crew can sign them, and the work is good but the business is invisible online. The engagement became two tracks — get the safety culture onto paper, and get the shop showing up consistently on Facebook.

The safety system is deliberately boring, because boring works: a fifteen-minute briefing before every shift, one topic per day, signed by everyone on the floor. It ships as a bilingual printable package — a two-page daily briefing log, a six-day rotation covering fume extraction, arc flash and eye protection, electrical shock, fire and hot work, gas cylinders, and the post-weld wrap-up. Signed sheets get filed; they are evidence, not decoration. Every rule carries the same caveat: reviewed by the supervisor before it reaches the shop.

The safety track grew a new artifact in October 2026: the Safety Meeting Transcriber. Shop safety talks happen in Spanish, on the floor, often as WhatsApp voice notes — and until now they evaporated. The transcriber is a single-file desktop app that runs entirely offline: drop a voice note in a folder and it detects the spoken language, transcribes it with Whisper on the CPU, translates it into the other language, and files four outputs per recording — Spanish and English, each as a plain .txt and a formatted PDF under the company logo, named by recording date so it sorts with the signed sheets. Nothing uploads anywhere; the only internet use is one-time model downloads, about 460 MB for the transcriber and 310 for the translator. It ships as a one-file Windows .exe a foreman can double-click, sized for the shop's Ryzen 5 and 16 GB of RAM. The known limits, printed here before anyone hits them: the small model is the ceiling on that machine, and the PDFs speak only Windows-1252, so an arrow prints as a question mark. Boring constraints, deliberately accepted.

The website is one self-contained HTML file — no framework, no build step, bilingual, every icon hand-drawn SVG. The agent-built version took one shot; the durable part is what surrounds it. An AI-to-AI handoff document lets the next agent continue the work safely, and the ongoing assist drafts Facebook posts from what actually happened in the shop — the week's jobs, the safety topic on rotation, the standards Greg wants to be known for. Spanish first, English when it matters. Nothing posts without his eyes on it.

The culture in one line, and it's Greg's line: nadie trabaja solo. Nobody works alone. The agent does the typing; the owner does the deciding.