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Field notes on automation and AI adoption.

What we learn building workflows and AI systems for growing businesses. Practical, measured, written to be useful.

AI security · July 2026

Your AI can read your inbox now. Who decided what else it sees?

Connectors and MCP plug AI directly into your email, drives and CRM. The three risks that creates, and the controls that make connectors safe to love.

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AI security · June 2026

That automation template you just downloaded: is it safe?

n8n templates, MCP servers and GitHub projects are brilliant and risky in equal measure. Five plain-language checks before anything touches production.

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Ways of working · May 2026

Your company's AI know-how needs a home

Prompts, workflows and AI skills are now real company assets, and most of them live in personal accounts. One home, an owner, review and history.

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Straight answers · April 2026

Why pay for an AI consultant when AI is free?

The models are cheap and getting cheaper. What you pay for is diagnosis, adoption, governance and measurement. An honest answer, including when not to hire one.

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Governance · March 2026

The five levels of AI security

From uncontrolled personal use to on-premise. A practical framework for matching each AI workflow to the right deployment level, plus the legal questions to ask.

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Operations · February 2026

How to do more without adding headcount

Seven traps that quietly drain a growing team's capacity, and the fixes that recover it. Most teams are leaking more hours than a new hire would add.

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AI adoption · January 2026

Why 95% of AI pilots fail (and the five-layer fix)

MIT found 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots fail to deliver ROI. The cause is rarely the technology. The five layers that decide the outcome, and where to start.

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