Field notes

Practical writing on AI that grows businesses.

Short essays from our delivery team on the systems, patterns, and decisions that compound revenue.

OperationsMay 4, 2026

Why most call-center AI pilots stall at 30% containment

The integration layer, not the model, is the bottleneck. Five fixes from our last twelve deployments.

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HealthcareApr 22, 2026

A reference architecture for HIPAA-aligned voice agents

PHI handling, audit trails, and human-in-the-loop patterns that pass payer security review.

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RetailApr 9, 2026

Forecast accuracy is a working-capital lever

How a 4-point MAPE improvement at a mid-market retailer freed $4.6M of inventory.

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TravelMar 28, 2026

Owner-services automation: lessons from a 71% containment build

What we got right, and the two things we would scope differently.

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StrategyMar 14, 2026

Buying vs. building an enterprise chatbot in 2026

A decision framework that stops the rebuild after eighteen months.

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EngineeringFeb 27, 2026

Evaluation pipelines that survive a model swap

The eval harness we ship with every LLM engagement, and how to wire it into CI.

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