Blog articles

Notes on automation systems, n8n workflows, AI agents, integrations, content pipelines, and the logic behind making messy processes work reliably.

Accountant at a desk looking frustrated at a screen with reconciliation data

The accountant who blamed the AI

May 2, 2026

AI in accounting is only as fast as the data behind it. I keep seeing the same pattern: clients who try Claude for bank reconciliation and find it slow — the problem is almost never the model.

Twin Peaks-inspired automation image

Good morning, Diane. New client. Simple task.

Apr 29, 2026

A real business process analysis story about inherited systems, missing owners, and questions hidden behind a simple task.

A man standing in a marsh at dusk holding a lantern

Before you automate anything, map it first

Apr 28, 2026

Messy processes are the ones worth mapping first: hidden exceptions, tribal knowledge, and the point where automation should wait.

Pirate-themed automation image

Day three. Still no result.

Apr 28, 2026

A debugging day inside a CRM, payment, and accounting chain where every failed hypothesis still narrows the search.

Debugging an integration by comparing good and bad transactions

When the data lies — or you're just looking in the wrong place

Apr 26, 2026

AI sped up a messy integration debug, but it also showed how easily a model can mistake correlation for cause.

Claude Code Austria screenshot used for the mortgage broker automation article

A Beautiful Idea for a Mortgage Broker That Will Break on the Third Client

Apr 22, 2026

A mortgage broker AI automation idea looks impressive until the learning part turns into the thing that breaks the workflow.

A website and blog workflow that turns writing into an easy publishing system

The website you actually deserve

Apr 20, 2026

A simple Obsidian-to-GitHub publishing setup removes WordPress friction and makes blogging easier to keep up with.

Refund automation exposing a delay between payment and accounting systems

The system broke the moment we launched it.

Apr 19, 2026

A refund automation failed because it ran faster than the accounting system's settlement window.

Late-night reflection on work, family time, and returning to automation

Stayed late again tonight.

Apr 18, 2026

If you took away the tools, the meetings, and the system noise, would you leave your work behind or circle back to it anyway?

Support chatbot conversation used to illustrate escalation to a human agent

These support bots drive me crazy.

Apr 17, 2026

A simple phrase often pushes automated support chats to a human, which says a lot about how fragile emotion-based escalation really is.

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