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Notes from the workshop

What I'm learning, building, and breaking. The thinking behind the systems I ship.

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5 October 2026· 6 min

The big labs are coming of age

Grok Bot, Muse, Instinct, Fo, and Dots all launched inside seven weeks, and they look like the agent I've been living with since March. Six months in, the agent brings the judgement, software does the work, and the rules that make it fit a business are the part no big lab can ship.

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5 August 2026· 4 min

Clag is not the glue to hold your business together

Every business has five systems, three spreadsheets reconciling them, and one person doing copy and paste every morning because nobody else knows which fields go where. The industry named a role for half of this problem. The other half was never written down.

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31 July 2026· 4 min

The Singular Taste

A bookkeeper sat across from me, convinced AI could never do what she does. She was testing the puddle and judging the ocean. This is about what happens to the 5% of work that matters when the other 95% disappears.

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