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How Knoxx Foods Built the Operational Foundations for AI

How Knoxx Foods Built the Operational Foundations for AI

Jul 14, 2026

How Knoxx Foods built the operational foundations that make AI actually useful.

How AI Coding Agents Are Redefining Automation

How AI Coding Agents Are Redefining Automation

Jun 29, 2026

How the Zapier SDK and Notion Workers are evolving visual no-code builders into coding agents that write, deploy, and version integrations in minutes.

Why Notion Workers + Dashboards are my New BI Stack

Why Notion Workers + Dashboards are my New BI Stack

May 21, 2026

After Notion's developer platform launch, Workers and Dashboards make a credible BI stack for most small teams. Why it's now my default recommendation, and where the warehouse-plus-Tableau setup still has the edge.

The Future of Work Isn't (Fully) Agentic

The Future of Work Isn't (Fully) Agentic

Mar 4, 2026

When Meta's AI safety director lost 200 emails to a runaway agent, it wasn't a hack — it was context window compaction silently dropping her safety instruction. Here's why the future of automation is selectively agentic, and how to combine AI judgement with deterministic guardrails that actually hold.

How NTUC automated social listening with Zapier, OpenAI, and ExportComments

How NTUC automated social listening with Zapier, OpenAI, and ExportComments

Oct 22, 2025

How NTUC cut hours of manual work by automating social media comment exports, AI analysis, and reporting


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(Claude) Design is my Passion

(Claude) Design is my Passion

May 4, 2026

Two weeks with Anthropic's new design tool: on-brand decks, a morning website redesign, and a Nano Banana workaround for image generation.

How Claude Cowork Does My Job While I Walk the Kids to School

How Claude Cowork Does My Job While I Walk the Kids to School

Apr 21, 2026

Five layers — files, plugins, sub-agents, memory, and scheduled tasks — that turn Claude Cowork from a chatbot into the coworker running ops before you've had coffee.

Your CRM's $2,500 Enrichment Feature Costs Me Half a Cent Per Contact

Your CRM's $2,500 Enrichment Feature Costs Me Half a Cent Per Contact

Apr 14, 2026

We built a contact enrichment pipeline for our Notion CRM using Apollo.io, HarvestAPI via Apify, and Zapier — for roughly $0–5/month. Here's the full architecture, the cost breakdown, and why CRM vendors charging $2–3K/year for the same capability is a broken model.

What I Learned Optimising a Multi-Turn AI Agent (the Hard Way)

What I Learned Optimising a Multi-Turn AI Agent (the Hard Way)

Apr 6, 2026

Lessons from building multi-turn AI agents across Zapier Agents, Notion Custom Agents, and Relevance AI — covering context window management, system prompt bloat, sub-agent trade-offs, and context rot.

Skills > Prompts: How I Teach AI to Work My Way

Skills > Prompts: How I Teach AI to Work My Way

Mar 25, 2026

How reusable AI skills across Claude, Notion, and Linear have replaced prompt engineering as the highest-leverage way to make AI tools actually useful.

What If Your CRM Worked the Way You Do?

What If Your CRM Worked the Way You Do?

Mar 10, 2026

We built a custom CRM in Notion — powered by 30+ Zapier automations, AI agents, and deep integrations — that tracks contacts, emails, meetings, deals, invoices, and leads automatically. Here's the full architecture.