Field notes

The work, in public.

Operator field notes on building AI and agent systems in the margins of a real job. What ships, what it costs, and how to tell the signal from the guru noise.

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Jul 8, 2026

How to Build a Voice-to-Task Agent for a Service Writer

A build log for a voice-to-task agent: a service writer speaks a note between cars, and it gets captured, transcribed, parsed, and routed to the right destination. The stack, the bugs, and the fixes. Twenty years on a floor, no tech background.

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Jun 28, 2026

Why I Built the Routing Layer Before Any of the Agents (and Why You Should Too)

The boring plumbing matters more than the agent. An operator's case for building the MCP routing layer first, before any of the agents that get the demo time on AI Twitter.

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Jun 28, 2026

What It Actually Costs to Run 22 Production AI Agents On Less Than $50 a Month

The real monthly bill behind 22 AI agents running 4 businesses, broken down by line item: hosting, model calls, APIs, storage. Operator math, not vendor pricing.

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Jun 28, 2026

Voice AI for After-Hours Sales Calls: How to Capture Leads When You Can't

An operator's playbook for using voice AI to catch the calls that come in after your floor closes. Twenty years on a dealership floor, what voice AI handles, what it doesn't, and how to wire it for under $50 a month.

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Jun 28, 2026

The Bash Script That Closes More Loops in My Business Than My LLMs Do

The most useful AI agent I built doesn't use AI. Two hundred lines of bash, no language model, more leverage per dollar than anything else in my stack. An operator's case for telemetry over intelligence.

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Jun 28, 2026

How to Start Building AI Agents If You Have a Day Job

A practical sequence for operators who want to build AI agents in evenings and lunch breaks without quitting the job that pays them. Twenty years on a dealership floor, no tech background, here is the starting line.

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Jun 28, 2026

How to Evaluate an AI Agent For Your Sales Floor (What It Automates, What It Doesn't)

An operator-floor breakdown of what AI agents genuinely handle on a sales-floor day, where they stop, and the questions to ask before you commit. Twenty years in retail, no vendor spin.

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