The editorial is the thinking. This is the doing. The same methods, run against real systems: data platforms, BI, CRM rollouts, reusable AI skills and right-sized adoption. Each one written up plainly: the problem, the approach, what shipped, and what it actually changed. No vendor gloss, no vanity metrics.
Every method starts as a written argument, tested against evidence rather than enthusiasm. Read the issues.
The idea gets run in a real business, on real systems, with real constraints and no demo data.
What shipped, what it cost, what broke, what changed. The receipts, written up below.
Case study 001
The workforce is already using AI on personal and business accounts. Rather than a policy written in the dark, we ran an anonymous workforce survey, and handed the build to an AI agent that designed and configured it through a browser in about fifteen minutes.
Case study 002
A group of 1,400–1,800 sites taking till and app sales, running on disconnected systems and load-bearing spreadsheets, joined up into one governed warehouse (finance, CRM, sales and more), so AI finally had trustworthy data to stand on.
Case study 003
"Charles", named after Charles Babbage, is my first virtual hire: he runs my Jira backlog, drafts meeting notes and books meetings. When the email and Teams connectors turned out read-only, a Power Automate, OneNote and SharePoint bridge did the sending. No engineers required.
Case study 004
Twelve reusable skills, written in plain English by an analyst with no engineering background, turned repeat work into one-line commands. That includes a safety-critical compliance run that went from days to minutes, and once refused to proceed when the source contradicted the instruction.
Case study 005
The AI Survival Quiz needed somewhere to put 55+ results, so a complete HubSpot beginner built a CRM data warehouse that scores every submission against the field and replies on its own. Built by pasting screenshots into an AI, with zero training, and the quiz stays live to keep feeding the analytics.
Every build here was done inside a normal working week, without an engineering team. Happy to talk through how any of it was done. Drop me a line at [email protected].