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Field notes, frameworks, and essays from real implementation work — on AI adoption, engineering, growth systems, and building founder-led technology for teams worldwide.

AI Adoption · Featured

What AI adoption actually looks like inside an SME

Forget the demos. Real AI adoption starts with one workflow, one team, and a clear answer to what it replaces inside daily operations.

Field note / 3 min read / Jun 2026
8 posts
AI Adoption
How SMEs should prioritize their first AI initiative

A practical framework for choosing the first AI use case based on business impact, workflow fit, feasibility, risk, and speed to validate.

13 min
Jul 2026
Engineering
Building software products with AI-assisted engineering, without losing the plot

Speed is easy. Maintainability is the hard part. How international teams can keep AI-assisted builds shippable past the first demo.

3 min
May 2026
Growth Systems
The CRM is not the problem. The workflow around it is.

Most CRM problems are workflow problems. A framework for fixing the sales motion before blaming the tool.

2 min
May 2026
AI Adoption
Start with the bottleneck, not the model

The most useful AI question is not "which model?" It is "where does work actually slow down?"

2 min
Apr 2026
Founder Notes
Why I started XataTech

On the gap between knowing how to build software and helping a business actually use it.

2 min
Apr 2026
Growth Systems
Connecting sales, ops, and data without building another silo

Every new tool promises to connect things. Here is how international teams can make sure it actually reduces friction.

2 min
Mar 2026
Engineering
Shipping agents that do real operational work

A build log: what it takes to move an internal agent from clever demo to something a real team can rely on.

3 min
Mar 2026
AI Adoption
AI adoption for SMEs: practical over hype

Why the opportunity is implementation, not imitation, and where international operators should start.

3 min
Feb 2026
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