Meet A.P.R.I.L.: My AI Chief of Staff Agent Who Runs the Operational Layer I Used to Run Myself
Here's a strong excerpt for promotional use, around 150 words: There is a version of the inbox problem that every productivity app promises to fix. Superhuman, Fyxer, Microsoft 365 Copilot. They all offer some flavor of prioritization, summarization, or smart drafting. I have used most of them. They help at the email level. They do not help at the operational level. The inbox is not the problem. The inbox is the symptom. The real problem is that information about any given situation is distributed across four or five places simultaneously. A client emails me. There is a ConnectWise ticket behind it. There are Airtable tasks tied to that project. There may be a Teams thread where someone mentioned me and I missed it. By the time I go to respond to the email, I am reconstructing context that should have been handed to me already. That reconstruction is where time disappears, and more importantly, it is where details drop.
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AI Is Reflecting You Back. Are You Paying Attention?
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Microsoft Copilot Adoption: What the LinkedIn Carousels Won’t Tell You
My AI minions watch me scroll LinkedIn so I don’t have to, and lately ... Read more
Token Economics 101: Managing AI Usage Costs Across Your Team
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Plan First: The Habit That Makes AI Actually Useful for Complex Work
The habit that improves AI outputs more than any model upgrade: plan before you execute. Here's the two-phase workflow and why it works.
My Honest Claude Opus 4.7 Review: What Works, What Frustrates Me, and Why My Cowork Button Vanished
Honest Claude Opus 4.7 review from a CIO building with the new model. Task budgets, routines in Claude Code, and the friction worth knowing about.
Before You Can Be Clear With Your AI, You Have to Be Clear With Yourself
Before your AI agents can reflect your goals, you have to be clear on them yourself. Here is the annual planning practice that makes everything else work
Meet A.G.N.E.S.: My Claude Code Agent for Client Communications
I built a Claude Code agent named A.G.N.E.S. to write client emails that sound human. Here's how she works and how to build your own.
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