Before You Rebuild Your CRM, Map the Work
A Salesforce replacement request raised a bigger question: whether a new system was worth the maintenance, disruption and time running two tools.
Compare a replacement project with the other problems in your business.
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Compare a replacement project with the other problems in your business.
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Account for maintenance and the time people may spend using two systems.
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Business workflows
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Describe the Work Before You Build More Software
An AI agent can offer another way to carry out business logic. Start with the process you need done, including a simple task such as uploading information to a CRM.
AI coding tools are only part of the change Alek sees in business software.
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AI coding tools are only part of the change Alek sees in business software.
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An agent can take instructions in English to carry out a business process.
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AI implementation
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Your team's second brain needs someone to own it
Shared AI knowledge brings decisions about data structure, storage, security and connections. Give one person the authority to drive that work.
Employee training is only part of implementing shared AI knowledge.
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Employee training is only part of implementing shared AI knowledge.
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Data structure, storage, security and connections still need engineering judgment.
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Business operations
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Let Your Team Reuse What It Learns
A shared folder of company knowledge gives employees and AI agents somewhere to find procedures, skills and work that may already exist.
Useful automation needs to be accessible beyond one person's computer.
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Useful automation needs to be accessible beyond one person's computer.
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A second brain can start with directories and readable text files.
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I wanted to give AI a spec and walk away
Why I built Necronomicode around Codex, and why specs, handoffs and stop conditions still make it useful in my daily work.
A terminal Codex supervisor coordinates bounded work.
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A terminal Codex supervisor coordinates bounded work.
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Specs and explicit handoffs let the work continue without constant supervision.
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How I'd use local AI before sending a document to a cloud model
A proposed local preparation layer for cloud AI: selective context, consistent labels and checks before private material leaves the local system.
Local AI could help prepare the context a cloud model receives.
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Local AI could help prepare the context a cloud model receives.
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Replacing names is pseudonymization, not anonymity.
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AI workflows
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What ComfyUI taught me about image workflows
Learning image generation through connected steps, reusable workflows and the difference between correct wiring and a useful result.
A visual graph makes the steps in an image workflow inspectable.
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A visual graph makes the steps in an image workflow inspectable.
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Reusable builders let selected inputs change within a stable setup.
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Give AI a Business Problem Before You Pick a Tool
Start with the work holding your business back, then consider removing it, automating it, delegating it or using AI.
Define the business problem before choosing an AI tool or model.
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Define the business problem before choosing an AI tool or model.
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Consider removing a step, conventional automation and human delegation.
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Where Did We Put That Decision?
A shared second brain gives your team somewhere to keep company context, so past decisions and useful information are easier to find.
Keep company context somewhere your team can find it.
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Keep company context somewhere your team can find it.
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Make past decisions available beyond the original conversation.
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