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Practical field notes for owners installing AI agents, automations, and knowledge systems in real businesses.

Guides drawn from my articles on X and lessons on YouTube.

Your AI Writes Cold Emails Nobody Answers (Here's how to fix it)

Test your AI email copy against real examples, hold back a hidden set, and measure interested replies.

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Implementation notes, decision frameworks, and real operating experiments.

A startup idea moving through seven validation checkpoints on a timer

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A 90-minute startup validation sprint

The seven-part sprint I use to pressure-test a business idea before spending weeks building it.

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Voice agent customer discovery conversation flow

BUSINESS EXPERIMENTSMar 23, 20266 min read

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How I built a voice agent for our customer discovery calls

The six-node conversation structure I used for Annie, plus the disclosure, consent, privacy, and human-escalation controls a production voice agent needs.

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A business experiment loop testing one reversible change at a time

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Ten practical business experiments inspired by autoresearch

How to adapt the keep-or-discard experiment loop to business problems without pretending every number is safe to optimize automatically.

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