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Latest from the lab.
Working notes on automation, AI workflows, and what we're learning by shipping. Honest reads, real arithmetic, and the occasional list. No email gate on any of it.
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2 notesHow we ship an automation in 30 days (without breaking your ops).
What you get from thirty days: a working automation in production, shipped from discovery to launch, with guardrails that keep things stable.
Automation ROIThe 5 workflows every business should automate first.
Not every workflow deserves automation. Here are the five that return more than they cost, usually inside the first quarter.
In the queue.
3 forthcoming · Q2 2026Why every AI tool gets shelved by month three.
The honest read on why ChatGPT, Copilot, and dozens of vertical AI tools fail to stick. Hint: it isn't the tool.
The hidden math behind every 15-minute manual task.
Thirty minutes a week becomes twenty-six hours a year, multiplied by five people on your team. The arithmetic owner-operators usually skip.
Five questions to ask before you hire an automation agency.
Most agencies fail four of them. We tell clients to ask us all five upfront, on purpose. Here's the list.