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The Lab.

The blog where we publish how the work actually happens. Real prompts. Real outputs. Real mistakes. Twice a week — Wednesday Workbench post and Friday Closing Out the Week note. Free to read, free to subscribe.

What you'll find here.

The Workbench

Behind-the-build walkthroughs. The prompts I used to do real client work, in real time, with the failed drafts left in.

Verdicts

Anonymized Hot or Not verdicts and the patterns I see across them. The shape of what's broken at scale.

Field Notes

Essays on what it actually means to work with AI as a craft. Some are short. Some are not.

Operator Log

The dogs review my work. They have notes.

Latest posts.

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Field Notes · May 13, 2026 · 7 min read

I built a tool that bounces bad outreach back to the sender.

Meet Lambert — Chief Inbox Officer at A&I. Five case files (Jason, Srikumaran, Bernie, Kyle, Chris), one Nine Inch Nails lyric each, and a gated tool that gives the sender full three-part therapy: what broke trust, a rewritten message under 80 words, and five coaching questions.

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Field Notes · May 12, 2026 · 7 min read

The Phantom Meeting & the art of saying no.

I've been in business for six weeks and already have a favorite genre of LinkedIn message. The five-step formula behind aggressive sales outreach, the exact LinkedIn report flow, and the three things I'm doing differently now.

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Field Notes · May 7, 2026 · 8 min read

Clarity before conversion.

Trust is designed in the details. When a buyer asks for context, they're not resisting the sale — they're trying to make a good decision. A field note on cleaner offers, better funnels, and the human layer of AI-powered selling.

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The Workbench · April 28, 2026 · 9 min read