Field notes fromthe studio.
What we learn shipping automations, agents and pipelines — written down so you don't pay for the same lessons.
The first automation you should build (and the one to skip)
A ranked way to pick your first automation: highest hours-per-week per dollar of build effort. Plus the seductive first project that almost always wastes the budget.
Read the note →AI agents in production: guardrails that actually hold
The five guardrails we require before any AI agent touches production: scoped tools, eval suites, confidence escalation, audit logs, and spend caps, with the failure stories behind each rule.
Read the note →Build a data digest your team actually reads
Dashboards rot because they demand a ritual. A digest is an email that arrives with the three numbers that matter and nothing else. The design rules that make it stick.
Read the note →Simple enough to see.
Powerful enough to ship.
Join the teams running automation they can actually explain.