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Things we've built,
and what we've learned.
Case studies on the tools and systems behind Northlight, the decisions we made building them, and what we learned.
These case studies describe the tools built for Northlight Advisory Services (Northlight OS, Northlight Meetings, Northlight Vault and the Skills Market), the decisions behind them, and what each one taught.
Case studies
Case Study · 2026
Northlight OS
AI-native business operating system
A custom dashboard that connects ClickUp, Gmail, Google Workspace, Slack, and Claude into one system — automating overnight task execution, financial email parsing, content pipeline management, and daily briefings for a solo advisory practice.
Case Study · 2026
Northlight Meetings
AI call recorder for Windows
A Windows desktop app that records client calls — both your mic and system audio simultaneously — then transcribes with Groq Whisper, extracts structured notes and action items with Llama, and pushes everything automatically to Google Drive, ClickUp, and Google Calendar.
Case Study · 2025
Northlight Vault
Cloud file browser for Windows
A free Windows desktop app that unifies Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox in a single read-only browser. No server, no subscription, no write access. Built on Electron with direct API calls and OAuth 2.0 — credentials stay on your machine.
MCP Skills Market
Three MCP skills built for internal use at Northlight Advisory Services and listed on MCP Market — because they worked well enough that keeping them private felt like a waste.
Case Study · MCP Skills · Solo Build
Northlight Skills Market — How We Built It
ClickUp Task Builder ($19), Strategic Voice Framework ($19), and MCP Market Publisher ($19) — built for a one-woman advisory practice, iterated until genuinely useful, and listed because keeping them private felt wrong.
MCP Skill · Claude
ClickUp Task Builder
$19
Has Claude build complete ClickUp tasks every time: start date, due date, assignee, priority and a description you can act on, plus a content calendar pattern for LinkedIn, Threads, newsletter and blog.
MCP Skill · Claude
Strategic Voice Framework
$19
A skill template that gives Claude an enforceable picture of how you write: your voice, signature phrases and writing rules, plus before-and-after examples, so drafts sound like you.
MCP Skill · Claude
MCP Market Publisher
$19
Walks you through preparing a skill for MCP Market: it audits the skill for personal details and hard-coded IDs, scores whether it is ready to sell, edits a clean copy, puts it in the required structure and drafts the listing copy for you to paste in.