About
Who writes this, and why.
Second Draft is a library of AI prompts and workflow kits that turn the paperwork of a small local business — the quote, the complaint reply, the rota — into a draft you can send, with the judgment left to you.
Who runs this
I am Brenn Cornec, and Second Draft is mine. I live in Mariposa, California — a town of a few thousand people where the businesses on the main street are the ones I grew up going into. I write the prompts, I maintain the library, I run the site, and I answer hello@seconddraft.dev.
I finished school in 2026 and I am enlisted in the United States Air National Guard, waiting on a ship date in November 2027 before I start training for a career in chemistry. This product is what I am doing with the time in between: I wanted to try building and selling something of my own before that starts, rather than wondering afterwards whether I could have.
That is the honest shape of the business. One person, self-funded, no investors, no content team, no agency, and no second pair of hands to answer an email when I am asleep. It is why the library grows a trade at a time instead of all at once, and why a complaint about a prompt reaches the person who wrote it.
Why it exists
The work that lands on an owner is not the work they opened the business for. It is the quote that has to be right, the review that has to be answered calmly, the rota rebuilt on a Sunday night, the message to a customer who has gone quiet. That work arrives after the shop closes, and it is the first thing to slip.
Most advice about AI in business is written for companies with a marketing department: a brand voice, a content calendar, someone whose job is to approve things. A two-person café has none of that and does not want it. What those businesses have is a person who knows the regulars, a phone that will not stop, and a laptop open at eleven at night.
So the library is written job first — one prompt for one real task, in the order the work actually happens — and every prompt asks for the missing facts instead of inventing them. It stays in the back office: the reply, the quote, the schedule, the post, the checklist. It does not write the creative work, teach anyone, or sign anything a licensed person has to sign.
It is not for someone who wants a dashboard, an automation, or a promise about revenue. It is for the owner who would like Tuesday's admin finished on Tuesday.
How the library is written
Three rules run through all 3,200 prompts and 640 kits. They are the reason the library reads the way it does.
By the job, not by the tool
Every prompt is written for one task a business actually has: the quote, the complaint, the rota, the job advert. The library is 32 trades with 100 prompts each, and 20 workflow kits per trade that put those prompts in the order the work happens.
Ask, don't invent
Each prompt tells the assistant to use only the facts supplied, to leave anything missing as a visible bracket, and to finish with the assumptions it made. The checks at the end of every kit say what a person still has to confirm.
The judgment stays with you
The prompts draft. They do not price, promise, diagnose, hire or decide. The free tools are fixed rules and arithmetic rather than a model, so the same input gives the same answer and the working is visible.
What we do not claim
- No time-savings, revenue or accuracy figures. Nothing has been measured across enough businesses to publish one honestly.
- No customer quotes, logos or star ratings until real customers have given them and agreed to be named.
- No countdowns, fake scarcity or “only today” pricing.
- No promise that this replaces a person, or that the output is right without a read.
How to get in touch
Email hello@seconddraft.dev. A person reads it. Refunds are handled under the refund policy — thirty days, no form.
The business side
Second Draft is the trading name of an individual business owned by Brenn Cornec, based in Mariposa, California, United States. There is no company behind it, no parent company and no investors. Payments, sales tax and receipts are handled by Polar as merchant of record, so Polar is the seller named on your receipt. If you need the legal name and address for an invoice or a purchase order, ask at hello@seconddraft.dev and you will get them in writing.
The subscription terms, the refund policy and the failure log are the pages that carry promises. This one is context.