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Field Notes

The systems we actually build.

Real automations, real workers, real decisions. Written to show what is possible and to teach how it works, not to sell you anything.

One application, voice, and agents. How much of your job can actually move off the keyboard?
Not a prediction. What I have been doing for the last week: email, proposals, Airtable builds, scripts, documentation and tasks, run through one app and mostly spoken rather than typed.
71% of small businesses use AI. Almost none of it is allowed to do anything.
Most businesses have hired an extremely capable advisor, given it no access to any of their systems, and then done all the work themselves anyway. The gap is not adoption, it is that nothing is joined up and nothing is allowed to act.
The four questions I answer before I close the laptop
Mornings were being planned twice, once at 6pm in my head and again at 8am from whatever email shouted loudest. A 60 second close down routine fixed it, four questions, one small file, and a morning briefing that reads it before anything else.
How AI preps me for every meeting in the time it takes to make a coffee
Walking into a client meeting cold is a quiet tax most small businesses pay every week. Here is how I handed the prep to an AI that gathers everything I need from three live sources, drafts an agenda, and still leaves every decision to me.
How AI runs my working day, from first coffee to shutdown
I run a growing client base on my own. The thing that makes it possible is not one big system, it is a handful of small AI routines that bookend and thread the day, and I stay in the loop the whole way through.
Why we interview a business with a voice agent, not a form
Forms are a guess made in advance. When you are trying to understand a business, a voice agent that can follow the tangent beats a questionnaire that cannot.