Routine Work vs. Growth Barriers: What’s Actually Worth Automating
You’re probably getting pitched on automating email labeling, social media posting, or report formatting. The vendors will say you’re “spending a few hours here and there on it” and ask…
Why Creative Automation Takes Months, Not Days (Despite What You See on LinkedIn)
Back in 2018, our creative team was drowning. We were producing 100-200 ads per month manually, and every campaign launch meant two days of frantic design work. Fast forward 8…
The Unglamorous Work That Makes AI Agents Actually Function
Everyone’s building AI agents in 5 minutes with n8n these days. At least, that’s what my LinkedIn feed tells me. Meanwhile, I just spent 3 months helping a client structure…
Every Time We Get Busy, Something Breaks
I keep hearing this same frustration from COOs. Different companies, same problem: “Every time we get busy, something breaks. I’m tired of fixing the same problems over and over.” That’s…
What ‘Qualified’ Actually Means: The Marketing-Sales Disconnect
I’m sitting in on a marketing-sales alignment meeting last week. About 20 minutes in, the CMO drops her frustration in: “You guys rejected about 59% of our qualified leads last…
We Have a 3-Day Approval Process for Something That Should Take 30 Minutes
So this COO tells me about their quarterly efficiency review. He’s going through all their workflows with his team, and they get to this one approval process. He just looks…
The AI Governance Reality Check: Everyone’s Using AI, Nobody Asked About the Rules
I was talking to a CEO last week and at some point he just says: “I found out my team is putting client data into ChatGPT. I nearly had a…
The $500 Engineering Hour: When Your Best People Become Expensive Sales Demos
I was talking to a CEO last week and at some point he just says: “My best engineer spent 6 hours yesterday explaining our API to a prospect. That’s $500…
