Rohan's Weekly Update: Unblocking the Team with Guides & Suno Tutorials
Rohan describes shipping a workshop-turned-video to unblock the marketing team's GitHub submissions, a three-part code-rebuilt Suno tutorial series, and written onboarding documentation for new fellows.
Rohan gives a weekly update from Humanitarians AI focused on training material rather than a research result. Two problems were blocking the team that week, and this video covers what got built to fix both.
Unblocking the marketing team's GitHub workflow
The marketing team could make things without any trouble. What they couldn't do was get finished work onto GitHub, and since the whole team is non-technical, that single step was stopping completed videos from ever being submitted. Rohan had already solved this workflow for himself, so at the start of the week he ran a live workshop walking the team through it, then packaged the same setup as a video. The result is that nobody has to sit in a live session to learn the process going forward.
A three-part Suno tutorial series, rebuilt in code
Most of the week went into a Suno tutorial series: three parts, all finished, all in 4K, totaling about 10 and a half minutes of training material for new team members. Part one gets a new user to their first generated song. Part two covers prompt craft, how to describe a sound and actually get that sound back. Part three covers refining and exporting a finished track. A deliberate technical choice runs through all three parts: every screen of Suno's interface is rebuilt in code rather than screen recorded, so the tutorials won't go stale the next time Suno ships an interface redesign.
Writing down what used to be tribal knowledge
The other piece of the week's work is written rather than filmed. A new fellow needs four separate accounts before they can make anything: Discord, Suno, Midjourney, and Adobe Creative Cloud. Right now, getting through that setup is tribal knowledge, something you find out only by asking someone who already went through it. Rohan is writing it down as proper documentation, with the explicit goal that "how do I get access" stops being a question anyone has to ask twice.
What's next: the Midjourney series
Rohan previews the next piece of work: a Midjourney tutorial series using the same approach, interface rebuilt in code, written for people with no background in the tool. He expects it done by the end of the following week, with the signup guide landing alongside it.
Key takeaways
- A live workshop for unblocking the marketing team's GitHub submissions was packaged into a reusable video so the fix doesn't require repeating a live session.
- The Suno tutorial series has three parts covering first song, prompt craft, and refining and exporting, totaling roughly 10.5 minutes across all three.
- Rebuilding tutorial interfaces in code instead of screen recording is meant to keep the tutorials accurate through future interface redesigns.
- New fellows currently need four accounts (Discord, Suno, Midjourney, Adobe Creative Cloud) to get started, and that setup path is being turned from tribal knowledge into written documentation.
- A Midjourney tutorial series, built the same way, is planned for the following week alongside the new signup guide.
Who this is for
Humanitarians AI fellows and team members following weekly production updates, and anyone interested in how a small team turns one-off workshops and word-of-mouth setup knowledge into durable, reusable training material.
Chapters
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Shipping training material instead of research
[0:00]Hi, I'm Rohan for Humanitarians AI. This week, I didn't ship a research result. I shipped training material. Our marketing team was blocked on one step and our incoming fellows had nothing to on board with. Both of those were fixable. So,
Unblocking the marketing team's GitHub flow
[0:15]That's where the week went. Here's what got built and what's still open. Start with the blocker. Our marketing team is creative. Making things was never their problem. What they couldn't do was get finished work onto GitHub. They're all non-technical and that single step was stopping completed videos from ever being submitted. I'd already solved it for myself. So, at the start of the
Suno tutorial overview (3 parts, built in code)
[0:36]Week, I ran a workshop, then packaged the whole setup as a video. Now, nobody has to sit in a live session to learn it. Most of the week went into the Sunno tutorial series. Three parts, all finished, all in 4K. About 10 and 1/2 minutes of training material for new members of the team. Part one gets you
Standardising tribal knowledge: The signup guides
[0:55]To your first song. Part two is prompt craft, how to describe a sound and actually get that sound. Part three covers refining and exporting. And every screen of Sunno's interface is rebuilt in code rather than screen recorded, so the series doesn't rot the next time they ship a redesign. The other piece is written, not filmed. A new fellow needs
Next week: Midjourney tutorial preview
[1:17]Four accounts before they can make anything. Discord, Sunno, Midjourney, and Adobe Creative Cloud. Right now that path is tribal knowledge. You find out by asking someone who already did it. I'm writing it down as proper documentation. So how do I get access stops being a question anyone has to ask twice? Next up is the midjourney series. Same approach interface rebuilt in code written for people with no background in it. That should be done by the end of next week and the signup guide lands alongside it. A blocked team unblocked, a training series shipped, and a signup path finally getting written down. I'm Rohan Vjkumar for Humanitarians AI.
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