Writing

Notes from the floor.

What we learn inside operations, written down: why pilots die, what the data actually holds, and where the current wave of AI earns its keep. No news, no hype, no gated PDFs.

Teardown ·

Why your predictive maintenance pilot stalled

The model was probably fine. The pilot died on the floor, for reasons that were visible in week one and fixable in week two.

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Position ·

Most plant-floor AI shouldn't be an LLM

The money problems in an industrial operation are mostly tabular and timeseries problems. Language models earn their place at the document pile, not the forecast.

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Field notes ·

What nine years of ERP history actually looks like

Every diagnostic starts with the same promise ("our data is a mess") and the same surprise: it's a different mess than anyone thought, and more usable than anyone hoped.

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