°FAI: Which Number Is Lying? A Morning of Making the Data Honest Our weekly press report showed setup running at 18.2 minutes per screen, over our target. That target isn’t arbitrary. It came out of the work I walked through in °FAI: Screen printing setup times, where it drops by a minute a week as…
The Shirt Board has been quietly running for over twenty years. Somewhere in those threads is almost every screen printing question that’s ever been asked, and answered, argued about, answered again better. The problem is finding any of it. Search engines barely touch old forums anymore. So we built a system that lets an AI…
Bouncing between projects, jumping on a call, answering a “quick question” that ate forty minutes, at the end of the week I couldn’t tell you where any of it went. So I built a time tracker. Not an app I downloaded. Not a subscription. One HTML file that runs in any web browser, on my…
Two weeks ago the press log credited someone with a sixteen-hour breakdown. So I made some updates to the logs. You can check out the earlier development here, here and here. The tablet went to sleep overnight, its software timers stopped with it, and the check-in popup and auto-pause slept right through, while the clock…
A few weeks ago I did a Shirt Show episode, and one of the things we talked about was keeping a human in the loop. Because ultimately, a junior separator learns by failing. You fail over and over again, and then you get better at what you’re doing. °FAI: Human in the loop AI, Keep…
I recently attended the Decorators Summit in Nashville by Printing United, and this was my presentation. °FAI: AI Pipeline for a Screen Print Factory: Everybody wants an autonomous agent on day one. That’s exactly how you get bad output and torch your own confidence in the system before it’s earned any. So I don’t build…
I attended the Printing United Decorators Summit in Nashville at the end of June, and this is an excerpt of the speech given by Ami Servi-Bonner, VP of Printing AI for Printing United Alliance. AI Adoption Is a Leadership Decision The tools will be commodity by next year At a recent industry talk, Amy Servi-Bonner,…
I attended the 2026 Decorator’s Apparel summit by Printing United in Nashville in the end of June, and this is an excerpt of Davis Slagle’s presentation The bottleneck is a person Every shop has a ‘person.’ The one you send the hard design to, the rep who just knows what closes. That knowledge never leaves…
I think one of the hardest parts about using AI is getting used to how to interact with it and what it’s good at and what it’s not good at. °FAI: AI is good at two things IMO: Writing and understanding computer code, which is what gives it a lot of power. Mimic Social interaction.…
I run six AI service. Claude for writing and code. OpenAI and Gemini. Ideogram to generate design work. Vectorizer AI to turn that art into clean vector files. Topaz Labs to upscale images. Every one of them charges me a different way, on a different day, through its own login. At the end of the…
