Field Notes
Notes from inside the work.
Short pieces on what we are seeing as operating companies rebuild for AI. Written as the work warrants — sent ahead of conversations where the framing matters.
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Your company already has an ontology.
It lives in three people's heads, and it gets re-typed into a chat window every time somebody needs it. Why the missing layer under reliable AI is a written-down model of your own business — the nouns, the rules, and the actions your agents read from.
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The Operating Layer.
OpenAI and Anthropic just launched deployment companies, sending engineers into client companies to install AI by hand. Why the model is no longer the bottleneck, and what the move tells operators trying to make AI actually work inside their businesses.
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