Field notes

Notes from the field.

How businesses actually run: the systems, the software bills, the AI tools worth using today, and what we are building. Written for owners, not developers.

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The series

Five things we write about.

Each one runs as its own series. Some are just getting started.

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    Levels

    A series on the five levels of a business's systems, and the move that gets you to the next one.

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    How businesses work

    The plumbing behind ordinary companies: who does what, and where the work gets stuck.

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    AI tools you can use today

    Tools that are ready now, what they are good at, and what they still get wrong.

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    The money math

    What software really costs, counted honestly, over the years you will actually use it.

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    Building in public

    Notes from the work: what we are building, what broke, and what we changed.

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