Notes from the studio.
What does an AI implementation partner do?
An AI implementation partner maps a workflow, builds it into your tools, keeps a person approving, hands over accounts and off switch, and trains the team.
- Finance
Can AI read Arabic invoices? Test these fields first
Yes, but test it on your own scans first. For gcc teams: score printed and handwritten apart, check totals, vat and line items, and keep a person on exceptions.
- Operations
How to pick the first process to automate with AI
Pick work that repeats often, follows written rules, costs little when wrong, has data on hand and a named owner. Leave out work a person must keep.
- Customer support
GPT-6 Luna pricing and your support handle time
OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna tier costs far less than its mid-tier. Here is why draft-and-review behind every support ticket, not just the hard ones, pencils out.
- Operations
AI for meeting notes that become action items
An ops lead guide to turning every meeting into action items that get an owner, land in Slack or Linear, and get chased to closure. Not a transcription bot.
- Operations
Worked example: catching missed rent escalations
An illustrative worked example of AI lease abstraction at a generic property firm, with an assumed portfolio and numbers, and no client result behind it.
- Marketing
What the Opus 5.5 price war means for ad testing
Anthropic cut Claude Opus 5.5's price on Sept 22 and OpenAI countered with cheaper GPT-6 sol and Luna. Here is what that does to weekly ad creative testing.
- Finance
AI for financial reporting: kill the Friday CSV export
Turn the Friday csv-to-dashboard scramble into self-serve reporting your CFO trusts. Reconciliation matches 80–95% of lines and flags the rest for sign-off.
- Operations
Worked example: clearing a purchase-order backlog
An illustrative worked example of AI purchase-order processing at a generic wholesale distributor, with assumed volumes and an approval queue. No client result.
- Finance
Claude Sonnet 5.5 and your cost per invoice
Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Sept 28 at the same price per token, finishing tasks in fewer tokens. Here is what that does to the invoices you shelved.
- Marketing
AI for content production: one brief into every channel
One structured brief fans out into the long-form post, social, email, and a landing page, with your brand voice held and a human review gate before publishing.
- Compliance
Worked example: clearing a KYC review backlog
An illustrative worked example of ai-assisted KYC review at a generic payments company, with assumed numbers, no client result. An analyst approves every case.