13 Sep 2026 · Field notes
Export trading, property-marketing technology, independent software — three businesses with nothing in common, working in strikingly similar ways: start from your own real annoyance; let AI run, keep a human on the gate; keep the real information; decide what not to do.
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13 Sep 2026 · People & organisation
Management heard "competitor interference". The recordings said: a failed card payment, a broken lift, a flooded car park. Information decays as it climbs an organisation — and this is the part AI can catch.
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13 Sep 2026 · AI & business
Found for five hundred, quoted at a thousand, accepted without haggling, reordered for months. When "being able to do it" gets cheap, clients pay for "someone who can get it done" — and for the extra question AI keeps asking on your behalf.
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13 Sep 2026 · Process & method
After ninety-five tasks in two days, the developer said: don't trust it completely. Three lines a small team should draw before delegating — the failure line, the takeover line, the responsibility line.
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Published Aug 2026 · AI & business
Drafts, translation and analysis are falling towards the price of electricity — the third great cheapening in fifty years of business. When competence stops being a moat, what a company should defend is judgement and trust.
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Published Aug 2026 · Process & method
Budget, vendor, launch, sign-off — then everyone works the old way. The problem isn't the tool; it's the order. Map the process, find the waiting and the repetition, re-divide the work, and only then choose software.
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Published Aug 2026 · People & organisation
"How much headcount can we save?" The question isn't wrong — but it locks in the direction. Same tools, two forks: one saves its way to a thinner ledger, the other lets the same people get more done.
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Published Aug 2026 · Lessons learned
Successes each find their own path; failures look strikingly alike. Handed to IT, piloted forever, fought by the incentives, unused by the boss, saved time evaporating — five deaths, none about the model.
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Published Aug 2026 · AI transformation
Three in the afternoon, and the owner is still editing a quotation. Repetitive paperwork, dormant know-how, late reports — three small jobs: cheap to start, quick to pay back, painless to fail.
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