A step-by-step walkthrough of building an automated employee advocacy tracking system. The solution uses Slack for link submission, Zapier with GPT-4o-mini for AI-powered link detection and data cleaning, Directus as a headless CMS backend, and a Next.js dashboard scaffolded with Claude Code. The system automatically captures
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The ProblemThe StackThe FlowStep 1: The Slack TriggerStep 2: AI Detection (Zapier)Step 3: Data Cleaning (Zapier)Step 4: Post to DirectusStep 5: The Dashboard (Claude Code)What I LearnedSort: