Founder notes
Notes from the founder on building with AI - honest, first-person, and short.
We drew a map of our own business. The most useful part was the bits a human still does.
We run HoursBack as a one-operator agentic business. So we built a live map of how it actually works - including every point where a person still decides. Here is what that taught us.
The afternoon my own AI agents were confidently wrong - and why that is the point
I pointed 413 AI agents at one question and two of them were confidently wrong. A human caught it. Here is why that human sign-off is the whole point.
Why 'running an AI pilot' is usually a waste of money
The AI pilot playbook sounds sensible. In practice, it produces orphan projects. Here's what to do instead - and why 30 days beats six months.
AI fatigue is real - what to ignore for the next six months
Most of what is being hyped about AI won't matter to a 5-50 person service business this year. Here is the shortlist that will - and the noise to tune out.
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