Week 8 of Building MyTabulon

There's a moment in every builder's journey where the thing you're building stops being a side project and starts being the backbone of everything you do. For me, that moment happened about three weeks ago, and I wanted to write about it honestly.

For those who don't know me, I'm the CEO of Maximo AI. We're a small but ambitious team working on some interesting stuff in the AI space. I've been building MyTabulon for the past eight weeks. What started as a workspace idea has turned into something I genuinely can't imagine running my business without anymore.

Let me take you through what that actually looks like.

The Problem That Started It All

If you've ever run a startup, you know the chaos. You've got leads coming in from different channels, investors you need to follow up with, tasks scattered across Notion, Trello, Slack DMs, random Google Docs, and that one sticky note on your monitor you keep ignoring. You've got invoices to send, emails to draft, team members asking what's next, and somewhere in between all of that, you're supposed to be building product.

I was drowning in tools. Every app did one thing well, but none of them talked to each other. My CRM didn't know about my invoices. My task manager didn't know about my leads. My calendar didn't know about my team's workload. And my AI assistant? It was locked in a chat window with zero context about my actual business.

That's when I decided to build MyTabulon.

What MyTabulon Actually Is

At its core, MyTabulon is an AI-powered business workspace. Think of it as the place where your CRM, invoicing, operations, task management, calendar, documents, analytics, and AI all live together — not as separate tabs, but as one connected system.

The AI isn't just a chatbot sitting in the corner. It reads your business data, understands your context, and actually does things. It creates invoices. It follows up on leads. It assigns tasks to team members. It drafts emails. It generates images and documents. It runs analytics on your pipeline. It can even write and ship code through connected developer tools like Maximo Syntax CLI and Codex.

Week 1–3: Building the Foundation

The first few weeks were all about getting the architecture right. I needed a system that could handle multiple business functions without becoming a bloated mess. The challenge was making everything feel connected without overwhelming the user.

During this phase, I was mostly building alone. Testing features, breaking things, fixing them, breaking them again. The usual founder loop. I was using MyTabulon to manage the build itself — tracking tasks, storing documents, keeping notes. It was already useful, but it hadn't been stress-tested by a real team yet.

Week 4–5: The Team Comes In

This is where things got interesting. I brought the Maximo AI team onto MyTabulon to use it for our actual company operations. Not as a demo. Not as a test. For real work.

The first thing we moved over was task management. Instead of jumping between tools, everyone started working from one place. I could assign tasks to specific team members, set priorities, link them to projects, and track progress in real time. The AI could see all of this too, which meant it could help with workload planning, deadline tracking, and even suggesting what to work on next.

Then we moved our lead tracking. As a startup actively raising our pre-seed round, we had a growing list of investors, potential partners, and early users we were talking to. Managing that pipeline in a spreadsheet was painful. In MyTabulon, every lead has a status, a history, next steps, and context. The AI can pull up anyone's profile, tell you where the conversation left off, and even draft a follow-up message.

Week 6–7: Running the Whole Company

By week six, MyTabulon wasn't just a task manager or a CRM. It was the operating system for Maximo AI.

Here's a real example from last week. I woke up, opened MyTabulon, and the AI had already:

• Reviewed our open tasks and flagged three that were overdue
• Pulled up our investor pipeline and told me who needed a follow-up today
• Drafted two emails — one to an investor who hadn't replied in a week, and one to a potential partner we'd been talking to
• Generated a social media image for a product update we were planning
• Checked our invoicing status and reminded me about a payment that was due

All of this happened in one workspace. No tab switching. No context loss. The AI knew our business because it lived inside our business.

But it goes deeper than that. We started using MyTabulon for things I hadn't even planned for.

Design work. We needed product images, social media graphics, and even some platform UI design. Instead of opening Figma or Canva, I just described what I wanted, and the AI generated it right there. Not perfect every time, but fast enough that iteration was easy.

Coding and shipping. This is where it gets wild. Through Maximo Syntax CLI and Codex integration, I could literally write code, run it, test it, and ship it — all from within MyTabulon. The AI could see my codebase, understand what I was building, and help me move faster. It's like having a senior developer who never sleeps and knows your entire project context.

Documents and communication. Need to draft a pitch deck outline? Done. Need to write a follow-up email to an investor? Done. Need to create a project brief for the team? Done. The AI doesn't just write generic content — it writes based on your actual business data, your actual conversations, your actual context.

Week 8: Where We Are Now

I'm writing this at the start of week eight, and honestly, I'm a little amazed at where we've landed.

MyTabulon has gone from an idea to a tool that a real company uses every single day to manage everything. Tasks, leads, investors, invoices, team coordination, design, code, documents, analytics — all in one place, all connected, all powered by an AI that actually understands the business.

Is it perfect? No. There are still rough edges. There are features I want to add. There are workflows I know can be smoother. But the core is there, and it works. The AI is genuinely useful. The workspace genuinely saves time. The team genuinely prefers it over the scattered mess of tools we used before.

What I've Learned Building This

1. Context is everything. An AI without context is just a fancy autocomplete. The moment you give it access to your actual business data — your leads, your tasks, your invoices, your team — it becomes something entirely different. It becomes useful.

2. Integration beats features. You don't need a hundred features. You need ten features that talk to each other. The magic of MyTabulon isn't that it has a CRM or a task manager or an invoicing tool. It's that they're all connected, and the AI can move between them seamlessly.

3. Build for yourself first. The best product decisions I've made have come from using MyTabulon myself. When you eat your own dog food, you feel every friction point. You know exactly what's missing. You don't need user interviews when you are the user.

4. Small teams move fast. We're not a hundred-person company. We're a small team with big ambitions. MyTabulon works for us because it was built for the way small teams actually operate — scrappy, fast, wearing multiple hats, needing everything in one place.

Try It

We're currently giving away free Pro upgrades to anyone who wants to try MyTabulon. No catch. We want people to use it, break it, tell us what's missing, and help us make it better.

If you're a founder drowning in tools. If you're running a business and wish your AI actually knew your business. If you're tired of context-switching between ten apps just to get through your day — give MyTabulon a shot.

DM me, or go to mytabulon.com and sign up.

I'll be sharing more updates as we continue building. Week 9 starts tomorrow, and I've got a long list of things I want to ship.

Thanks for reading.

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