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The Smoke Detector Never Went Off.  It Didn't Have a Battery.

Oct 6, 2026

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5 min read

The Smoke Detector Never Went Off. It Didn't Have a Battery.

Three Checks for the Alert You Haven't Heard From in a While.

Frameworks

Tony Gondick
Tony Gondick

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Sep 29, 2026

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4 min read

The Demo Is a Firework. The Work That Pays Is a Habit.

Four Projects That Paid. Not One Had a Demo Worth Watching.

Frameworks

Sep 22, 2026

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4 min read

Dreamforce Gave This Story Its Frame

A Rule From a Guy Who Never Got a Keynote Slot Is Still Running, Unwatched, and Working Just Fine

Field Notes

Sep 15, 2026

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4 min read

I Wasn't Trying to Kill the Monthly USB Drive

I Was Just Trying to Get Home From Austin

Enterprise Apps & AI

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Your AI Worked. It Still Didn’t Ship. | Plant Floor to Cloud Ep. 2

Sep 30, 2026

Your AI Worked. It Still Didn’t Ship. | Plant Floor to Cloud Ep. 2

88% of manufacturers say they have the right AI expertise in the building. 22% are actually funding it. Everyone’s satisfied with the results — and the bill is quietly coming due somewhere they aren’t looking. This episode’s thread: we’re buying AI as ...

Plant Floor to Cloud: The Podcast, Episode 1 - Prove It Before You Scale It

Aug 26, 2026

Plant Floor to Cloud: The Podcast, Episode 1 - Prove It Before You Scale It

A reordering agent ran quietly for six weeks, drafting purchase orders a human clicked to approve — right almost every time. So they took the human out of the loop, on a Friday. Over the weekend, a malformed price file turned dozens of individually-pla...

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"Your World. Your Imagination." (And an $800,000 Line Item Nobody Saw Coming.)

"Your World. Your Imagination." (And an $800,000 Line Item Nobody Saw Coming.)

The strangest project I've ever been part of didn't use new technology. It used a fifteen-year-old video game — it worked, other teams wanted it, and it still didn't survive the budget cycle.

Field Notes

The $12M Fix Our Own Team Asked For ... Then Almost Killed.

The $12M Fix Our Own Team Asked For ... Then Almost Killed.

Four issues on AI projects that failed. Here's one that worked, and the group that nearly stopped it wasn't the one you'd guess.

Field Notes

Lucky #13? 88% Say They Have the Talent.  22% Are Paying to Build It.

Lucky #13? 88% Say They Have the Talent. 22% Are Paying to Build It.

Three issues of AI failures. One bill nobody paid.

Frameworks

The AI Got It Right. We Couldn't Tell If It Was Lucky.

The AI Got It Right. We Couldn't Tell If It Was Lucky.

We could check the answer. We couldn't check the reasoning.

Field Notes

Somebody Has to Own the Kill Switch. Almost Nobody Does.

Somebody Has to Own the Kill Switch. Almost Nobody Does.

Leadership

We Shipped the AI Chatbot Everyone Wants. Then We Killed It in Eight Weeks.

We Shipped the AI Chatbot Everyone Wants. Then We Killed It in Eight Weeks.

Issue #10: What a fast kill taught us about where AI actually earns its keep in B2B commerce

Enterprise Apps & AI

B2B eCommerce stopped being a science project. The numbers say so.

B2B eCommerce stopped being a science project. The numbers say so.

Distributors and manufacturers are posting hard eCommerce numbers this year. The figure everyone quotes is the tip; the durable story is underneath it.

Industry Intel

The Weekend The Agent Did Its Job Perfectly

The Weekend The Agent Did Its Job Perfectly

Agentic AI doesn't answer. It acts. Here's the rollout that earns it the right to — one rung at a time.

Enterprise Apps & AI

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