Our Team

The people behind every review, tutorial, and comparison on AI Playbook.

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Sarah Chen

Editor-in-Chief

Sarah oversees all editorial content at AI Playbook. With 8 years of experience in tech journalism (previously at The Verge and TechCrunch), she specializes in AI tools for productivity, design, and content creation. She's tested over 200 AI tools for this site alone and personally reviews every article before it goes live.

Expertise: AI productivity tools, design tools, content creation, editorial workflows.

Selected articles: Cursor Review, Gamma AI Review, ChatGPT Pro review, Best AI Productivity Tools 2026.

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Marcus Webb

Reviews Editor, Developer Tools

Marcus is a former software engineer who spent 6 years building full-stack applications before switching to tech journalism. He leads our developer tools coverage, coding AI reviews, and all comparisons involving programming assistants. Marcus has personally tested Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, Windsurf, and 30+ other AI coding tools against real codebases.

Expertise: AI coding assistants, IDEs, developer tools, CI/CD automation, API platforms.

Selected articles: Claude 4 Opus Coding Review, AI Coding Agents Comparison, V0 by Vercel Review, Windsurf IDE Review.

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Elena Torres

Tutorials Editor

Elena is a content strategist and former product manager who specializes in making complex AI workflows accessible. She structures every tutorial to be followable by beginners while still valuable for advanced users. Before AI Playbook, she ran a 50K-subscriber YouTube channel teaching automation tools.

Expertise: AI automation, no-code tools, workflow design, content strategy, video production.

Selected articles: Deploy AI Agent Pipeline to Vercel, Build RAG with LangChain, AI YouTube Automation, AI Email Campaign Tutorial.

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James Park

Technical Editor & Fact-Checker

James holds a Master's in Computer Science and worked as an ML engineer at a Fortune 500 company for 5 years before joining AI Playbook. He handles our most technical content — model comparisons, benchmark analyses, and deep dives into AI architecture. He also runs our fact-checking process, verifying every technical claim before publication.

Expertise: LLM benchmarks, model architecture, AI infrastructure, data science tools, technical fact-checking.

Selected articles: DeepSeek V4 Review, GPT-5 vs Claude Sonnet 4, Local LLM Guide, OpenRouter vs Together AI.

Review Process

Every article on AI Playbook is written by one of our team members and reviewed by at least one other editor before publication. Our reviews are based on real, hands-on testing — not spec sheets or press releases. Read our full review methodology →