Notes

AI cut some of my projects from weeks to a day, which moved the limit from building to deciding, and that changes how a small company should work.

Two people run a company across 18 countries and 11 languages on 32 written procedures instead of hiring per region. Two thirds of the procedures stop and wait for a person where judgment matters.

In 100 days the checks named 750 problems, each with what, where and when it started. If login breaks at 3am on a Sunday I know at 3:05, not when a customer writes in hours or days later.

Last year I sent 398 emails to people who weren't me. Between the first and the twentieth of this month I sent 383, and typed almost none.

Seventy-plus scheduled agents across eighteen countries and eleven languages, run by two people. None of them learned the job independently.

A sync monitor died in May and nobody knew for seven days. The fix was a rule every agent now follows: every automated job names the check that proves it still runs, and every plan says what happens when it breaks.

Before the spending clause, four cost estimates in a row missed by three times. Now any sizeable job gets an approval before the tools run.