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Field guides

The long ones

Long, teachable guides that take one subject end to end, in numbered lessons you can follow in order. One a week.

A new guide every Friday

  1. AI Agents · Oct 16, 2026

    Data Privacy for AI Tools: The Decisions to Make First

    Eleven lessons on knowing what you have agreed to: an inventory, data tiers, what the vendor actually promises, and the logging path that leaks after the model does not.

    11 lessons · 22 min · 7 figures

  2. Models & Cost · Oct 13, 2026

    Local LLMs for Business: When Running Your Own Is Worth It

    Eleven lessons on the analysis that follows 'local is free': the three real reasons, the costs with no invoice, and the hybrid split most working setups actually use.

    11 lessons · 22 min · 7 figures

  3. Use-Case Playbooks · Oct 12, 2026

    How to Automate Customer Support with AI Without Losing People

    Twelve lessons on the routing problem underneath: what the bot is permitted to answer, how it escalates, and which metrics quietly count a customer giving up as a win.

    12 lessons · 22 min · 7 figures

  4. Automation · Oct 11, 2026

    AI Automation ROI: How to Tell If It Actually Paid Off

    Eleven lessons on making the claim checkable: every cost meter, a benefit you can defend, honest attribution, and the threshold at which you turn it off.

    11 lessons · 22 min · 7 figures

  5. RAG & Knowledge · Oct 10, 2026

    How to Build a RAG System That Retrieves the Right Thing

    Twelve lessons on the part that actually breaks: chunking, hybrid search, re-ranking, refusal, and telling retrieval failures apart from generation failures.

    12 lessons · 23 min · 8 figures

  6. Models & Cost · Oct 9, 2026

    Choosing an LLM for Production: The Decisions That Stick

    Twelve lessons on picking a model with evidence: a written quality bar, a thirty-case evaluation, a defensible price, and a swap that takes minutes.

    12 lessons · 22 min · 7 figures

  7. Automation · Oct 6, 2026

    AI Automation for Solopreneurs: What to Build First

    Twelve lessons on the order of operations: which job to automate first when you are the only person in the business, and what it costs.

    12 lessons · 22 min · 7 figures

  8. AI Agents · Sep 4, 2026

    How to Build an AI Agent: The 80% That Survives Week Two

    Fifteen lessons, in the order you actually hit them, from scoping the job down to setting a cost ceiling you chose.

    15 lessons · 34 min · 11 figures