A Skeptic Who Built Her Own AI Chief of Staff Gives Town an A

Someone who hand-built her own AI chief of staff says a $20-a-month product beat her expectations at two specific jobs: matching her writing voice and clearing small scheduling decisions. Logan Currie posts about career security and AI as @loganinthefuture. In this clip she reviews Town, an AI assistant she upgraded from free to paid the week before filming. On-screen captions frame the verdict plainly: "I'm always skeptical ... But this tool gets an A." She stresses the review is unpaid and that she still runs her own system.

The skeptic's starting position

Currie opens by saying it takes a lot to impress her with AI chiefs of staff and assistants, "partly because I built my own through blood, sweat, and tears over many months." The on-screen text at the top reads "LOT TO IMPRESS." She frames her experiments with new products as a way to get inspiration and to check whether a ready-made tool is easier than fixing her own Claude-based system "for the 17th time this week," a line the captions call out directly. That context matters: her praise comes from someone who knows how hard the problem is because she has been solving it by hand.

Two things Town does well

Currie narrows her review to two concrete wins rather than a broad endorsement. First, voice. She says Town "nails your voice much better than I even thought possible," and that the draft email replies waiting for her read like "pretty much what I would have said." That saves the step of rewriting a generic draft into her own tone. Second, escalation. She gives a specific example: someone proposed 1:30 on a given day for a meeting, and Town sent her a notification saying it would send the invite if she was okay with it. She clicked yes and it handled the rest. Her framing is about friction, not grand automation: "it's like the little tiny pieces of friction" that the tool removes.

Build your own or buy one

The video's real subject is the choice between a custom system and an off-the-shelf product. Currie is unusual because she has done the custom build and still recommends it. She says you can "still do" the DIY route and that she encourages it, then adds that if you don't want to build your own entire system, Town has been a strong addition. The framing in the video description matches: "I won't be abandoning my own CoS setup anytime soon but Town has been an excellent addition." She also notes she has not calibrated Town much yet and plans to keep experimenting, so the review is early and provisional.

What the video does not show

This is a talking-head clip filmed at a desk with a round mirror and a plant in frame. There are no screen recordings of Town's interface, no inbox views, and no side-by-side comparison of a Town draft against her own writing. The claims about voice matching and scheduling escalation are her spoken account, not demonstrated on screen. Anyone weighing the tool should treat this as a first-week impression from a knowledgeable user rather than a feature walkthrough.

Key Takeaways

Town is an AI chief of staff or assistant that drafts email replies and helps manage scheduling.
Currie paid for the upgrade herself and states the review is not sponsored.
Her two standout wins are voice matching on draft replies and low-friction escalation of small decisions like sending a meeting invite.
The pitch is friction removal on small tasks, not full hands-off automation.
She built her own chief-of-staff system on Claude and still runs it, so her endorsement carries weight from someone who knows the problem.
The review is early. She says she has not calibrated the tool much and plans to keep testing.