Stamped entries
Case studies
Longer write-ups of the work and the things I've built, in my own words. Firms stay unnamed.
Work
- Essay · August 2026 · start here Why we stopped at 80% The AI did about 80% of the work in about a quarter of the time. Why we chose not to push it to 100, and the handful of things I now believe about putting AI into real work.
- Case study · August 2026 Fifteen agents, one front desk: a year of building AI for an accountancy firm A year building agents for real accountants. Fifteen drafts became six, six became one, a sixteen-minute run became four, and the rules that stuck came out of the incidents.
- Working paper · August 2026 A practice team in software The public cut of a working paper for the firm's leadership. A manager model, a worker model and a human partner, with the roles enforced in code rather than requested in a prompt.
- Case study · August 2026 The engine and the car: why I moved our AI system three times in one summer The same system ran on three different harnesses between June and August. Same skills, same integrations, same rules. Where the value actually sits when the model is a line in a config file.
- Essay · September 2026 What's left of the job when the reading leaves it The AI did about 80% of an accountant's job in about a quarter of the time. What's in the other 20%, and why I tell the staff they're being promoted.
- Case study · August 2026 Ten things I learned putting AI into a national pharmacy group Three days of discovery that turned into building. Three agents shipped, four didn't, most of the time went on access, and governance moved from the back of the proposal to the front.
Things I made
- Case study · August 2026 Beau: I built a matching app that watches how you react, then I turned it off A matching app that shows you a social moment and watches what you do, instead of asking you to describe yourself. Built solo to a working beta in two months, then wound down, and the question it left me with.
- Case study · August 2026 Gonzo: six personas, one argument, and a phone call to Google Maps A travel engine that searches in the local language, lets six personas argue over the answer, and checks every place against Google Maps before it's allowed to recommend it.
- App · Android Natter: a voice journal that writes the entry for you, on the phone, with nothing sent anywhere You talk about your day and a small toad asks up to three questions, then writes the page from your own sentences. Beau and Gonzo are folding into it.