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Apr 29, 2026

How We Cut Video Library By 70% Three Weeks Before Cloudflare Renewal

Introduction Claude found 128 orphans across 141 videos in minutes. The renewal negotiation that followed was the actual outcome.

Apr 28, 2026

What An Autonomous Agent Taught Us About Governance

Introduction This story does not start with a strategy. It starts with me getting tired of a problem I had with myself.

Apr 27, 2026

The Caching Crisis That Was Hiding In Plain Sight For A Year

Introduction A real story about how AI shortened a diagnosis from twelve months of avoidance to one afternoon of looking, and what made that possible.

Apr 24, 2026

How One Engineer's Frustration Turned Our SDLC Into A Plugin

Introduction Eleven skills, one command, and a quiet shift in how we move work from a Jira ticket to a reviewed pull request.

Apr 23, 2026

The Decision Tree Framework That Turns 400+ Sites Into A Governable Estate

Introduction A practitioner's blueprint for enterprise website consolidation, covering tier classification, dual-stream delivery, LLM orchestration as a migration POC, and the governance model that makes it stick.

Apr 22, 2026

You Don’t Have A Website Problem: You Have A Website Estate Problem

Introduction How unmanaged digital sprawl quietly becomes the most expensive line item in your technology budget, and why the usual fixes make it worse.

Apr 21, 2026

How A Self-Running Sales Pipeline Was Built By Partnering With AI

Introduction Part 3 of the series: "Building a Production EdTech Platform on Lovable"

Apr 20, 2026

The Document Every Digital Modernisation Needs Before Workshops Begin

Most IA workshops stall on the same question: is that property in scope? A Domain Scope Map answers it once, so navigation, taxonomy, and content decisions stop getting relitigated.

Apr 17, 2026

How To Scope A Fragmented Digital Estate Without Getting It Wrong

Introduction A Classification Framework for Organizations Navigating Modernization Across Multiple Platforms, Vendors, and Teams

Apr 16, 2026

Why Your Website Is Invisible In AI Search In 2026 (And How To Fix It)

Introduction The structured data gap that is quietly removing your brand from the fastest-growing discovery channel.