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Notes from the build log.

Long-form writing on AI automation for small and medium businesses. Patterns from embedded consulting. The workflow problems nobody puts on a slide deck.

May 18, 20264 min read

White hat hacking an AI agent: what safety testing actually looks like

AI safety for a real product is not a policy doc or a model setting. It is a person running the same bad prompt twice, from two accounts, and noticing when the answers do not match.

AI SafetyHealthcareRed Teaming

May 14, 20264 min read

The chatbot is the easy part

Every SMB I talk to wants a chatbot first. The chatbot is rarely the thing that creates value. The workflow it plugs into is.

AI StrategySMBWorkflow

April 30, 20263 min read

Build vs fold into existing

Most build-vs-buy decisions are actually build-vs-fold-into-existing. Two projects, five days apart, taught me the same lesson.

AI StrategyEngineeringDecision Making

March 6, 20264 min read

Two months embedded in healthcare AI: the value is not in the tools

A field report from two months as an embedded AI consultant at a healthcare tech company. The tools are not where the value lives.

Case StudyHealthcareEmbedded Consulting

December 4, 20255 min read

The hybrid AI video pipeline (why pure generation will not cut it yet)

For a modular collectible launch, pure generative video kept warping rigid plastic into rubber. The fix was a hybrid pipeline with deterministic 3D physics underneath the AI surface.

AI Video3DProduction Pipeline

November 1, 20253 min read

Pattern3 is open for new client work

AI for the little guys. What Pattern3 builds, who we build it for, and what we can spin up fast.

Pattern3ServicesSMB

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