Notes from teams building
revenue-grade agentic systems.
Writing on AI architecture, operating models, and the unglamorous work of moving experiments into production. From our engineers, partners, and operators in the field.
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- Field notes
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The agentic system is the new org chart.
When AI takes ownership of a workflow, it inherits the same operational rules as a hire.
What we've been writing about this quarter.
Speed-to-lead is a routing problem, not a hiring one.
Why most teams chase headcount when the bottleneck is the first 90 seconds of a lead's life.
A working definition of "revenue-grade" for AI systems.
Three tests we apply before we let an agent touch the P&L.
How brands get cited (and excluded) in AI answer engines.
We tracked 600 prompts across four answer engines for sixty days.
Designing escalation rules an agent actually obeys.
The difference between an agent that hands off cleanly and one that buries problems.
How a $40M ops team retired 32 SOPs in six weeks.
A field report from a multi-site fulfillment operator.
The four-loop marketing engine: brief, ship, measure, prune.
Most AI-marketing setups stop at ship. The prune step is where lift comes from.
Long-form reading.
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FN/042
Architecture
The agentic system is the new org chart.
14 MAY 2026 -
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Sales Ops
Speed-to-lead is a routing problem, not a hiring one.
10 MAY 2026 -
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Forecasting
A working definition of "revenue-grade" for AI systems.
06 MAY 2026 -
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AI Search
How brands get cited (and excluded) in AI answer engines.
02 MAY 2026 -
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Architecture
Designing escalation rules an agent actually obeys.
28 APR 2026 -
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Case Study
How a $40M ops team retired 32 SOPs in six weeks.
24 APR 2026 -
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Marketing
The four-loop marketing engine: brief, ship, measure, prune.
20 APR 2026
Multi-part deep dives.
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S/01 · 5 parts
The AI org chart
Designing agentic roles with ownership, scope, and a real KPI. Lessons from twelve production deployments.
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S/02 · 4 parts
Revenue-grade forecasting
Building forecasting systems whose outputs make it onto the next board deck — without the asterisks.
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S/03 · 3 parts
Visibility in AI search
How brands win citations across answer engines, and what gets you excluded from the final answer.
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S/04 · 6 parts
The owner's chief of staff
A working build of an AI chief of staff: briefs, memory, escalation, and the ten things it should never decide.
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S/05 · 4 parts
Marketing in four loops
Brief, ship, measure, prune. A complete operating system for content teams that aren't ready to disappear.
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S/06 · 3 parts
Engagement field reports
What broke first, what we did about it, and what the team kept after we left. Three full deployments, no smoothing.
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