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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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