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Clear thinking for the era of acting software.
Practical analysis for leaders deciding where AI creates leverage, where automation is enough, and how to make either reliable.
Featured analysis
Oct 12, 2026 · 7 min read
AI strategy
AI agents or workflow automation? Choose the simpler system first.
A practical decision framework for choosing between deterministic automation, AI-assisted workflows, and autonomous agents.
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Signals worth acting on.
Written for operators, not for the AI news cycle.
Infrastructure
6 min read
What MCP changes for business software—and what it does not.
Model Context Protocol can standardize how AI systems connect to tools and data. Here is the business case without the protocol hype.
Applied AI
7 min read
Context engineering is the difference between a clever demo and useful AI.
Why business AI needs the right information, tools, memory, and boundaries—not one enormous prompt.
Customer operations
6 min read
Voice AI agents: where they create value beyond answering calls.
A practical look at voice agents for qualification, support, scheduling, and follow-up—with the controls production systems need.
Agent safety
7 min read
Computer-use agents can operate old software. Safety has to lead the design.
How computer-using AI expands automation to browser-based work—and how to control credentials, approvals, and failure risk.
AI operations
8 min read
How to evaluate an AI agent before customers depend on it.
A business-first evaluation framework for testing outcomes, tool use, safety, and recovery across realistic agent workflows.
Business case
7 min read
How to calculate AI automation ROI without inventing a 10× claim.
A grounded way to value time returned, errors avoided, faster response, and capacity created by an automation system.
Knowledge systems
8 min read
RAG, long context, or fine-tuning? Pick the right knowledge architecture.
A plain-language guide to grounding an AI system in company knowledge without choosing technology before the problem.
Document automation
7 min read
From inbox to system of record: designing AI document workflows.
How to extract, validate, review, and route information from invoices, forms, PDFs, and operational documents.
Agent safety
6 min read
Human-in-the-loop AI is a design decision, not a temporary compromise.
Where approvals, review queues, escalation, and policy checks belong in production AI workflows.
Revenue operations
7 min read
Build an AI sales assistant that improves follow-up without creating spam.
A practical architecture for research, qualification, CRM hygiene, drafting, and human-approved outreach.
AI search
7 min read
SEO for AI Overviews: useful content still beats invented ‘GEO hacks.’
What Google’s guidance means for teams trying to appear in generative search without producing scaled AI filler.
Implementation
8 min read
A 90-day AI automation roadmap for an operations team.
How to identify the first workflow, ship a controlled pilot, measure it, and build an automation backlog from real evidence.
AI engineering
6 min read
Structured outputs make AI useful inside real business workflows.
Why schemas, validation, explicit refusals, and typed handoffs matter when model output drives software.