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Fast, Efficient, and Confidently Delivered — But Wrong

Two analysts, two definitions of Revenue, both right, neither agreed. Here's an agent that queries the data directly and shows you the SQL.

9 May 2026 4 min read

Real World Agents

Have you ever built a dashboard nobody opens?

Dashboards sit on a server, perfectly correct, and nobody opens them. The fix isn't a better dashboard — it's an agent that emails you what matters.

9 May 2026 4 min read

Real World Agents

Have you ever told an AI 'never do this' and watched it do it anyway?

Two refund agents, same prompt. The one with 16 prompt rules buried the duplicate-detection signal under noise. The other caught it cleanly.

9 May 2026 3 min read

ContextGate

I built an AI agent that turns Gmail receipts into a spreadsheet — automatically

I built a weekend agent in ContextGate that watches a Gmail label, reads PDF receipts, extracts vendor/date/amount/category, and writes clean rows to a Google Sheet — flagging anything it isn't sure about. Here's how it works, and why governance lives outside the agent.

2 May 2026 3 min read

Fast, Efficient, and Confidently Delivered — But Wrong

Have you ever built a dashboard nobody opens?

Have you ever told an AI 'never do this' and watched it do it anyway?

I built an AI agent that turns Gmail receipts into a spreadsheet — automatically

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