Field notes on agentic operations
What we learn from teams delegating real work — what transfers, what breaks, and what we got wrong.
Delegation is the skill, not prompting
The teams getting the most out of an AI teammate are not writing better prompts. They are writing better briefs — the same brief they would give a capable new hire.
Read the postStart with your worst recurring task
Pilots that begin with a demo fail quietly. Pilots that begin with the report everyone dreads survive contact with the organization.
Aug 14, 2026Why approval gates increase autonomy
Counterintuitively, the teams that set the tightest approval rules end up delegating the most. Trust is built by making the failure mode boring.
Jul 30, 2026The real cost of an answer
Per-seat pricing made sense for software people opened. It makes very little sense for a teammate whose cost is the work it does.
Jul 11, 2026Institutional memory as a product feature
What a company knows about how it works is usually undocumented and always leaving. Making it explicit is worth more than any single automation.
Jun 25, 2026What we learned reading a year of audit logs
Across thousands of delegated tasks, the pattern is consistent: the work that moves first is assembly, and the hours come back to judgment.
Jun 4, 2026Give Hoopi your worst recurring task
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