Field notes
Field notes.
Notes 17 to 32 of 98, newest first, published between Sep 30, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026.
Current notes
Notes from October 2026 back to September 2026.
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AI Guides
AI Marketing Agent vs Agency: Who Should Write Your Content?
The question is whether an AI marketing agent can replace a content agency retainer outright, or whether it only takes the drafting and scheduling off a strategist's plate.
- 10 min read
- Oct 17, 2026
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AI Guides
AI Agents vs Intercom and Drift
With Drift being wound down, the question is whether a chat widget is still the right tool once it only sees the visitors who open it.
- 9 min read
- Oct 16, 2026
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AI Guides
Can an AI Agent Write Client Status Updates?
The question is whether a client update an agent drafts from your project ledger is accurate enough to send once a person has checked it, not before.
- 10 min read
- Oct 15, 2026
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AI Guides
In 2026, count the missed calls on your own phone.
The question is how you count missed calls in 2026 on the phone you already have, before you quote anyone else's figure.
- 5 min read
- Oct 15, 2026
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AI Guides
Check a booking system before it emails anyone.
The question is which five checks to run before a booking system sends a confirmation to a real customer.
- 5 min read
- Oct 15, 2026
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AI Guides
Hand off the task that stops when you are out.
The question is which task stops when you leave, and how you hand that page to someone else.
- 5 min read
- Oct 15, 2026
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AI Guides
Multi-Channel AI Agent Setup: SMS, Voice, and Web Chat
The question is whether one agent actually keeps its accuracy and memory once a customer moves from a text to a call, not just whether it can connect to both.
- 9 min read
- Oct 14, 2026
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AI Guides
AI Agents for Dispensaries: Menu Questions at Scale
If a shopper or a chat agent asks whether something is still on the shelf, the job is answering that as reliably as the register would, not just as fast as a person would.
- 10 min read
- Oct 13, 2026
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AI Guides
AI Agent Monitoring: What to Log Before You Trust It
The question is whether a quiet wrong decision gets caught by a person reading a log this week, or by a customer first.
- 9 min read
- Oct 12, 2026
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AI Guides
AI Agents vs Hiring a Virtual Assistant
The question is which tasks on your list have one right answer an agent can own, and which ones still need a person's judgment.
- 9 min read
- Oct 11, 2026
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AI Guides
AI Receptionist Alternatives Worth Considering
The question is which of the six ways to answer a call fits your volume and how many of those calls actually need a person's judgment.
- 9 min read
- Oct 9, 2026
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AI Guides
AI Agent Quote Generation: What It Gets Right and Wrong
The question is which lines of a customer quote an agent can draft alone, and which ones still need a person checking the numbers first.
- 9 min read
- Oct 6, 2026 · Updated Oct 15, 2026
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AI Guides
AI Agent Guardrails: What to Build Before Go-Live
Before an operations agent gets write access to anything a client can see, the job is naming the spend caps, the approval list, and who the escalation actually reaches.
- 10 min read
- Oct 5, 2026
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Field Notes
How to Budget for Your First AI Agent
If the quotes for a first agent do not describe the same job, this note is how to size the work before you agree to a build.
- 10 min read
- Oct 4, 2026 · Updated Oct 5, 2026
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AI Guides
AI Agent Ad Creative: Variants, Testing, and the Catch
When the ads need another version, the job is drafting the variants and keeping any new claim for a person to approve.
- 10 min read
- Oct 3, 2026 · Updated Oct 5, 2026
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AI Guides
How to Prevent AI Agent Hallucinations
When an agent might state something your business never said, the job is catching that before a customer reads it.
- 9 min read
- Sep 30, 2026
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Page 3 continues with notes 33 to 48.
It opens with “Superintelligence: What the White House SI Order Really Means”, published Sep 30, 2026.