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Thoughts on what's working — and what isn't — when AI lands inside real businesses. Subscribe via LinkedIn until the email list is live.
May 2026
AI apps for local government in South Central PA.
Custom AI-developed applications can help local governments in York, Lancaster, Dauphin, and Adams counties reduce software costs, improve workflows, and get better data.
Read note →April 2026
Why your AI strategy should not depend on one platform.
The best AI platform today may not be the best one next month. For small businesses, the smarter move may be a flexible AI toolkit with a few low-cost subscriptions across the leading platforms.
Read note →April 2026
Your next AI win: one workflow.
Agents, smarter creative tools, and better workflows are making AI more useful for small businesses. Pick one weekly task and make it faster, clearer, or more consistent.
Read note →April 2026
AI is ready for real work.
Agents, creative tools, and smarter workflows are moving from interesting to practical for small businesses. Here's what changed this week and what to do with it.
Read note →Coming soon
The two AI projects every $10M business should fund first.
There's a pattern. Inbox triage and document extraction both clear payback in under 90 days, both have stable architecture, and both build the muscle for harder things.
Coming soon
Why I won't sell you a chatbot.
Customer-facing chatbots are the most-pitched, lowest-ROI AI deployment in the mid-market. Here's where the real money is.
Coming soon
Building on the edge: lessons from Miri.
What shipping ML to industrial hardware taught me about latency, reliability, and what 'production-ready' actually means.