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What teams are testing, where AI is changing the bottleneck, and what evidence changes the decision. Short, honest, and never a pitch.
Note · May 2026 · 9 min read
I rebuilt Rapidly from scratch in 71 hours using AI agents. It worked. That's not the interesting bit. The interesting bit is that the hard part is no longer the building. It's still knowing whether any of it matters to the people using it.
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Note April 2026 · 7 min
About 20% of my operations now run through AI agents. CRM, email, pipeline, drafts. What that taught me about the difference between building faster and choosing better.
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Note March 2026 · 6 min
If AI can ship almost anything we ask for in a weekend, the bottleneck moves. The question stops being "can we build it?" and becomes "which ideas are worth testing?"
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ai innovation May 2026
Where AI fits, what teams actually need, and the rhythm that makes it stick.
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newsletter Apr 2026
What I told a room of 40 people at VicRoads, and why it matters more now than ever. Plus: the SMS story, platform updates, and the AI tool that changed how I work.
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ai innovation Mar 2026
Three AI fabrication incidents in two weeks revealed a dangerous pattern: when AI doesn't know the answer, it makes one up — confidently. Here's how I built accountability systems to catch it.
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ai innovation Feb 2026
A non-technical founder rebuilt an entire platform with AI in six weeks. 798 commits, 20x faster database, a full rebrand, and the dev team transition that followed.
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ai innovation Dec 2025
When Tabcorp set out to reinvent its approach to innovation, they weren’t looking for a shiny new tool, they were searching for a better way to think....
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pretotyping Oct 2025
Clarifying the difference between pretotyping and prototyping - one asks CAN we build it, the other asks SHOULD we build it.
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pretotyping Oct 2025
What happens when you put two prototypers and a pretotyper in a room? A conversation that clarifies why most innovation efforts get the sequence wrong.
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interviews Sept 2025
What if the AI ran the interview? I'll be honest—when Patrick and I sat down to record a case study interview, I didn't think ChatGPT would be...
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pretotyping Sept 2025
From ideas to evidence - building an Innovation Engine in a regulated enterprise.
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pretotyping Sept 2025
A Century of Innovating Reece is an Australian success story that has been innovating since its humble beginnings. Founded over 100 years ago...
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pretotyping Sept 2025
At first glance, accelerators and corporate innovation seem to be on different sides of the innovation spectrum. Slingshot Accelerator aims to bring t...
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tools resources Sept 2025
Experimentation Tools Directory: 10 Essential Tools for Innovation Teams covering the complete experimentation lifecycle.
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