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Notes from the studio

Short pieces on AI workflow design, systems thinking, and running a media studio in Hawaii.

AI automation for WaiΚ»anae Coast small businesses β€” competing without headcount

Mainland-funded competitors have teams. WaiΚ»anae Coast SMBs have time, taste, and tight margins. Three workflows β€” scheduling, follow-up, and document handling β€” close the gap without adding hires.

Why small Hawaii businesses need AI workflows β€” not more tools

Most teams adopt AI by collecting apps. The real leverage comes from redesigning the workflow the apps sit inside. Here is the three-question audit we use with every client.

The five tools we actually use every day (and the seven we quit)

An honest inventory of the software that survived a year of client work β€” and the ones we replaced because the cognitive cost was higher than the time saved.