Mirror Image had need for a CRM. So I started Building a CRM on Monday + Brevo. This is a new space for me to build in, and I’m using AI to assist. We tested HubSpot first and then arrived on the Monday / Brevo integration because it seemed to suit our needs better. Maybe…
Our press operators log every job on a tablet, order number, screens, setup time, run time, delays. That data flows into the weekly report the shop owner reads every Monday morning. The tablet form has been live about three weeks. The operators came back with a list and The Bug That Was Faking Our Numbers.…
Start With the Brain Dump, Not the Slides The biggest mistake I made early on was opening Claude and asking for “a 15-slide deck on screen printing safety.” You’ll get something. It’ll be generic, vaguely true, and useless. Better approach: dump everything you know about the topic into the chat first. Bullet points, half-thoughts, that…
Most of what we cover in °FAI is the side-eye. Water consumption, sycophantic chatbots, the stuff that should make you skeptical. But fair is fair. While we’re busy critiquing AI in our industry and our daily lives, there are places where it’s doing measurable good for humanity right now. Healthcare leads the list. A 50-Year…
Three years ago, somebody asked me if I really thought this AI thing was going to be the future. My answer: I don’t even think this is the future. I think this is the right now. Everybody is just going to wake up to it at their own rate. And Everybody’s Having Their Own AI…
My Downloads folder was a disaster. Screenshots piling up by the hundreds. Time tracking data I had to manually enter into two different spreadsheets every single day. None of it was hard. All of it was stealing time. So I began Automating daily computer tasks with AI. Downloads: Scheduled Cleanup The Downloads folder is the…
According to Harvard Business Review’s 2025 Gen AI Use Case Report, therapy and companionship is now the number one use case for generative AI, not coding, not content creation. People are processing grief, managing loneliness, and navigating mental health with chatbots. That demands a level of skepticism most users aren’t bringing to the conversation. It…
You’ve probably seen the headline: one AI-generated email costs a whole bottle of water. It’s a stat that gets clicks. But the real picture of AI water consumption is more nuanced, and the question of what you can do about it deserves a straight answer. The Big Picture Is Alarming U.S. data centers consumed roughly…
Our weekly report was technically working. Every Monday it generated a PDF with setup times, delay breakdowns, operator stats, problem counts. The team opened it, scanned the numbers, moved on. Nothing changed. The problem wasn’t the data. It was the isolation. Setup time averaged 35 minutes this week, is that good or bad? Delays totaled…
