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Lessons from client engagements, in reverse order. Each one comes from a system I built or a business I helped run.

Jun 24, 2026

What turning around a 20 year old business taught me about customer touch points

Operations

The business was losing $6K a month. Seven weeks of redesigned touch points made it profitable.

Jun 10, 2026

The architecture behind a cold outbound system that books real meetings

Systems

n8n handles orchestration, Claude handles personalization at scale, and a file based CRM holds it together. Built for agencies that live on booked calls.

May 28, 2026

Three questions I ask every business owner before automating anything

Clients

The answers decide whether a build pays for itself. The third one usually changes the scope.

May 12, 2026

Why I publish my n8n templates for free

n8n

Seven templates in, each one has brought clients, students, and better questions.

Apr 28, 2026

A file based CRM was the right call for a five person pipeline

Systems

JSON, CSV, and a nightly audit script keep the whole pipeline honest. What it looks like and where it breaks.

Apr 14, 2026

Enrichment before personalization: the order matters in cold email

Cold email

Verified emails and clean company names double the value of every AI generated opener downstream.

Mar 30, 2026

When I reach for n8n and when I write custom code

n8n

A decision rule from a year of building both for client systems, and why communication decides more cases than code.