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AI news, industry breakdowns, and lessons from real client work. What's changing, and what it means for businesses like yours.
I run my consulting practice on the systems I sell
Every automation I recommend to a client is a kind I run myself. Here is what that actually looks like, including the part that failed.
Read →The Mapping Session, Explained
What actually happens in a free 30-minute mapping session, why it's free, and what you walk away with whether or not you ever hire us.
60 Days Inside a Legal Staffing Firm: A Teardown
Everything we actually did in the first 60 days of an automation engagement with a legal staffing firm. What it cost, what paid back, what broke, and what I'd do differently.
What Big Companies Get Right About Operations (and What to Ignore)
I spent years inside LinkedIn/Microsoft watching how well-run companies operate. Four of their habits now fit a 20-person budget. One never will, and you don't want it anyway.
AI Automation Consulting Pricing: What It Actually Costs
What AI automation consulting costs, what drives the number, and how to tell if a pricing model protects you or the vendor.
What 95% of AI Pilots Have in Common
Most AI projects die in the same way. The failure pattern is predictable, and it shows up before the first line of code gets written.
What to automate first: a scoring framework
Most owners stall on where to start with AI. This scoring matrix cuts through it. Five criteria, 25 possible points, one ranked list.
Automation for professional services firms
Legal, staffing, CRE, consulting. The manual workflows look different. The upstream problem is the same. Here's what gets automated and how.
Questions to Ask Before Hiring an AI Consultant
Eight questions that separate consultants who ship from ones who slide. Use these before signing anything, including with us.
Make vs Zapier vs n8n: an honest comparison
An independent consultant's take on the three most popular automation platforms: no affiliate links, no vendor spin, just which one fits your situation.
The 45-Minute Audit
A simple workflow audit any owner can run this week. No software, no consultant, no jargon. Forty-five minutes and you will know your first automation project.
Your first AI project should not be a chatbot
Chatbots feel like AI. They also have the worst risk-to-reward ratio of any first project. Here is what to build instead.
What we mean by automation that actually runs
Most automation projects fail in week six, not week one. Here is how to build systems that survive past launch and keep paying back.