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June 17, 2026

The CRM That Finally Stuck

After a decade of personal-CRM tools dying from feeding-friction, the arrival of MCP, open-source Monica wrappers, and the Agent Skills standard finally fixed the broken input rail. A case study in what we built for ourselves — and the lesson that keeps cutting across every AI-augmented operations project we touch.

case-study · ai-augmented-operations · personal-crm · agentic-workflows

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June 3, 2026

The Hour That Cleared the Backlog

How parallel AI execution compressed an 8-to-12-hour backlog refactor into 70 minutes — a case study in agentic workflow leverage for operations leaders.

agentic-workflows · parallel-ai-execution · operations · leverage

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