Field notes on operating AI

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Writing on AI operations and outcomes. Drawn from real deployments on Zendesk, ClickUp, and Workday.

ServiceNow was built for enterprises with platform teams and multi-year budgets. Mid-market IT pays the price. The right...

May 17, 2026 5 min read Read

Professional services firms have the platforms. They run projects in spreadsheets anyway. The PSA gap is an operations p...

March 30, 2026 7 min read Read

Diamond is the highest tier in the ClickUp partner program. Here is what separates a Diamond partner from the rest, and ...

February 10, 2026 7 min read Read

Pre-configured ITSM workflows change the economics of going live. Incident, problem, change, and service catalog built b...

December 16, 2025 5 min read Read

AI-operated IT support is not a chatbot. It is AI agents that route, deflect, and remediate, governed by a human operato...

November 6, 2025 6 min read Read

AI agents drift. Knowledge gaps accumulate. Routing breaks on untested edge cases. Unoperated AI is slow, invisible deca...

September 19, 2025 6 min read Read

Most organizations have implemented AI. Fewer are operating it. The gap between deployed and operated is where outcomes ...

August 2, 2025 5 min read Read

Three states of enterprise AI. Most organizations know which one they are in. Very few know what it costs to stay there,...

June 15, 2025 6 min read Read

Set up 4 powerful ClickUp automations that route tasks, assign owners, and trigger updates automatically, so your team s...

April 3, 2025 2 min read Read

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