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Deep dives on the handoffs, data leaks, and automation decisions that turn into revenue systems.
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Belief Shift
Apr 26, 2026
Slack-to-Claude bridge for 16 cron heartbeats
An AI agent that posts blockers to Slack you cannot action from your phone is not solving the problem, it is just relocating it. I rebuilt mine around a shared blocker queue and a cockpit skill that drains the queue in 2 minutes flat, not 2 hours of thread-hunting.
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Framework + Case
Apr 25, 2026
Reference design: an Ahrefs and Google Ads MCP server
A practical reference design for exposing SEO, paid-media, and internal-content data to an AI workflow through one MCP server.
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Belief Shift
Apr 25, 2026
Claude Code as a team force multiplier
Claude Code is not Cursor with a bigger context window. It is the first AI product that ships durable team-level leverage instead of per-seat chat speedup. Here is what actually changes when a team adopts it.
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Depth Charge
Apr 25, 2026
Why cold email stops working at 50 inboxes
Scaling cold email past the low hundreds per day looks like a tooling upgrade. It is a deliverability architecture problem and the usual fix makes it worse.
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Contrarian
Apr 24, 2026
AI resume screening filters out your best candidates
AI resume screening tools are sold as efficiency. The published research shows they reject 27 million qualified candidates in the United States alone. The fix is not a smarter screener. It is a different architecture.
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Contrarian
Apr 24, 2026
Best CRM for small business 2026: the one thing to check
Every CRM comparison ranks features. None of them check whether the API at the tier you can afford will let your automation layer actually do anything. Here is the shortlist that does.
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Framework + Case
Apr 24, 2026
Your first custom MCP server: when it's worth building
The official Anthropic MCP registry has servers for Slack, GitHub, Google Drive, and dozens more. Custom only makes sense in specific cases. Here are the 5 signals that custom is the right call.
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Framework + Case
Apr 24, 2026
MCP vs REST vs function calling: which to use
Three abstractions expose data and actions to an LLM. They look interchangeable. They are not. Here is the decision tree.
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