Field Notes
Writing on building AI worth owning
How I'd build a self-running daily financial brief with AI
Most small business owners don't see their numbers until the accountant calls with bad news. Here's how I'd build an agent that hands them one honest paragraph every morning, and why the right way to build it depends entirely on the client.
The AI dashboard worth building
There's nothing wrong with a dashboard. The trouble starts when it's built to prove the AI is working rather than to help someone decide something. Here's how to tell which one you're building.
Managed platforms get you to market. Proven primitives keep you there.
Supabase and Vercel can get a real project shipped by Friday, and that's not a knock against them. The harder question is what you reach for once the thing has to keep running, unsupervised, for years.
Owned, not leased: a case for handing the keys back
Most AI consulting ends with a dependency. We think that's the wrong model. Here's why we structure every engagement around handing the client full ownership of what we build.