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AI BizOps: You've found PMF. Your team is drowning. Now what?
Why ten people breaks the machine, and how AI coworkers let a lean team keep the speed of four while capturing the output of forty.
2026-08-28Field Notes
How to Build a Company Brain That Doesn't Rot
What a company brain is, why most DIY builds fail, and the four operating loops that keep company knowledge accurate, useful, and safe for people and AI agents.
2026-08-25The Long Read
The next digital renaissance: why AI coworkers are the beginning, not the end
Agent capability doubles every seven months. Ninety five percent of enterprise pilots still return nothing measurable. Both are true, and the printing press explains why. Interactive figures, and the case against the argument made as well as I can make it.
2026-08-22Field Notes
How to give your AI a memory
Your AI tools forget your business between sessions. Here is how solo founders and small teams fix that, from free habits to a shared company brain.
2026-08-22Field Notes
The Landing Page That Optimizes Itself: An Autonomous Growth Experiment
A landing page with its own AI growth team: a reward function, a bandit serving variants, and a nightly researcher that retires losers and writes challengers inside hard guardrails.
2026-08-19AI BizOps
How to Measure Human Leverage: The AI BizOps Metric, Operationalized
Human leverage is strategic hours reclaimed per hour of agent operations, the core AI BizOps metric. How to baseline it, measure it three ways, and report it credibly.
2026-08-05Definitions
AI Coworker vs. AI Agent: What Is the Difference?
An AI agent is the technology; an AI coworker is the operating role. Compare autonomy, context, tools, oversight, accountability, and when each term matters.
2026-08-05How-To
How to Build an AI Coworker: From Workflow to Production
Build an AI coworker in five stages: choose the job, write the operating contract, connect minimum context, test in shadow mode, and operate with metrics.
2026-07-30Assessment
The AI Workflow Assessment: What You Get, What It Costs, and Whether You Need One
The fixed-price diagnostic that maps where AI automation pays off before you build. What the deliverable includes, what it should cost, and whether to do it yourself.
2026-07-17Buying AI
AI Consultant vs. Agency vs. Platform: How to Choose
Three ways to get AI working in your business (independent consultant, automation agency, or self-serve platform) and how to pick based on volume, variation, and who maintains the system.
2026-07-17Buying AI
7 Red Flags When Hiring an AI Automation Vendor
The warning signs that an AI automation consultant or agency will waste your budget: vague pricing, no written guarantee, demo-ware, lock-in, and automating everything at once.
2026-07-17Definitions
What Is an Agentic Workflow? A Plain-English Definition
An agentic workflow is an AI system that plans and executes multi-step work across your tools with checkpoints for human judgment. How it differs from automation, RPA, and chatbots.