Writing
Notes on agentic workflows, Claude Code, and automation, written from systems running in production, not from theory.
1,570 Commits, £0 Revenue. The Most Valuable Thing I Built Wasn't the Product.
Three files and two hooks turned every session into one that starts smarter than the last, the compounding happening in what each session taught the next rather than in the code itself.
I Built a Board of Directors for My One-Person Company. Here's Why I Fired Them.
Eight autonomous agents, a Monday briefing system, heartbeat monitoring, a task database. Paperclip did everything a real company's ops team does. It still had to go.
I Named My Agents After Father Ted Characters. It Told Me Something I Hadn't Said Out Loud.
Ted runs in a persistent terminal session, Dougal was the backup, and the Discord channel is called Clankers. The naming was a joke until I noticed what it actually meant.
How This Site Writes Its Own Changelog
A weekly GitHub Action fetches my real commits, hands them to Claude with a strict no-invention prompt, and commits a changelog entry back to the repo. Here's the full architecture.
Setting Up Claude Code for a Solo Founder
The Claude Code configuration that lets one person run nine production systems: project memory, custom skills, MCP servers, and the guardrails that make it safe.
What an Agentic Workflow Audit Actually Looks Like
Inside the £750 AI Workflow Audit: how I map a business's real workflows, decide what agents should own, what stays human, and what should be deleted instead of automated.