Field Notes
Everything here happened in a real business.
Workflow teardowns, case studies, benchmarks, and signals from how Chinese SMEs actually adopt AI. Anonymized companies, real numbers.
Workflow Teardowns
When Not to Use an AI Agent: Five Cases Where a Simple Rule Wins
The hardest part of deploying AI in a small business is not building the agent. It is knowing the five kinds of decisions where a plain if-else rule is faster, cheaper, safer, and never wrong.
Workflow TeardownsWhy Most "AI Employees" Die After the Demo: Seven Production Failure Modes
The gap between an impressive demo and a system a 20-person trading company actually relies on is not model quality. It is everything around the model.