Field Notes
Writing on building calm systems
The case against the AI dashboard
Every AI project ends up with a dashboard. Here's why that's usually the wrong thing to build first — and what to do instead.
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Shipping an agent your accountant will actually trust
An AI agent that touches money, contracts, or compliance needs to be built differently than a chatbot. Here's the architecture that earns trust with people who don't care about AI.
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Why we still bet on boring infrastructure
The most durable AI systems are built on the most boring infrastructure. S3, SQS, Lambda, Postgres — not because we lack imagination, but because boring scales quietly.
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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.
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