Jo Mendes · NomadaToast
Creating content
that connects.
Practical AI tutorials for creators who want to grow, ship, and monetise.
Audience
Over one million
curious people.
Across YouTube, TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Creators, engineers, founders swapping notes.
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NomadaToast
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This entire site, the scroll-scrubbed video, the glass cards, the live chat, was built in a single session with Emergent.
Made by NomadaToast using EmergentWhat I make
Helping creators grow and monetise with AI.
Four pillars, one mission: making the AI tools that are rewriting content actually useful for the people making it.
Tutorials & How-Tos
End-to-end walkthroughs of the exact AI workflows behind today’s best content.
Tool Breakdowns
Honest, side-by-side reviews of the AI tools that actually ship. Receipts included.
Grow Your Socials
Formats, hooks and posting systems I use to turn AI-native content into real reach.
Monetise the Work
Turn AI content into revenue, affiliate links, productised services, client work.
Latest video
Watch on YouTube →I turned my wife into an AI influencer that pays.
The exact end-to-end system I used to turn my wife into a monetised AI influencer, tools, prompts and payouts included.
Philosophy
How I make videos
Build in public. Ship it this week.
Every tutorial is a real project I’m shipping, filmed as I build it. You see the dead ends, the fixes, the prompts that actually worked.
Engineer first, creator second.
Years in developer tools before a single video. Every workflow is tested against real constraints before it gets explained.
Creators swapping notes.
The comments section is half the value. Viewers share their prompts, their mistakes, and the edits they are shipping.
Process
From paper to published, every week.
Four steps · ship weekly
Research
Test the new tool, read the docs, and build a working prototype before I commit to a topic.
Build
Run the full end-to-end project on a real brief, so the tutorial is about the actual thing.
Film
One-person set. Clean audio, cinema colour, screen-record workflows in real time.
Publish
Long-form on YouTube, cuts on TikTok / Reels / Shorts. Same build, shaped for where you watch.
The audience
Over one million curious people, across four platforms.
YouTube · TikTok · Instagram · X
1M+
audience across socials
17
brand partnerships
4
platforms, posted daily
100%
prompts shared
Selective partnerships
Working with community & brands
“Finally a channel that actually shows the prompts, the settings, and the payouts. The alter-ego workflow alone was worth weeks of my own trial and error.”
A small number of selective partnerships each year, native, platform-first ad content for AI and tech companies that want to reach creator audiences. Recent partners include Adobe, ASUS, Wix, Kling AI, Pika and Hailuo AI.
Partners & collaborations
Brands I’ve created content for.
About
A one-person studio for honest AI coverage.
Jo Mendes
Portrait · 2025
Hi, I’m Jo. Portuguese-born, Amsterdam-based creator building NomadaToast, a channel about the practical end of AI. Former software engineer; now making full-time tutorials about the tools, prompts and workflows that turn AI experiments into real, monetisable content.
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Let’s build with AI.
Subscribe to the channel, drop a note, or pitch a collab. I reply to every real message, hi@nomadatoast.com.
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