Thoughts · field notes, not takes
Writing about doing
the actual work.
Field notes on building with AI, service design, and systems that earn their keep, written for people who have jobs, not opinions about model architectures. One story at a time, each one built on something real.
The node canvas was inevitable.
I specced a node canvas for branded generation on 20 April 2026. ElevenLabs shipped Flows on 4 June 2026. Neither of us copied. What that convergence says about subscription pricing, headless software, and why reading is now the bottleneck.
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I pointed a local AI at everything I've ever made.
Eight years of work, scattered across drives and clouds, read, described and indexed by models running on my own machine. 875 documents, 2,674 visuals, £0 to run, nothing uploaded anywhere. What it found were the threads I had forgotten.
Read the field guide →№03, how does this scale to an organisation? A company's entire body of work: private, searchable, and never walking out the door when someone leaves.