Notes from the studio.
- 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.
- Education
What Claude Opus 5.5 pricing does to cost per student
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 on Sept 22 at a lower price than Opus 5. Here is what cheaper tokens and cache reads do to your cost per student.
- Operations
AI for approval workflows: clear the queue before it stalls
Approval chains die in dms for days. Here is how an ops lead clears pos, vendor onboarding, access and change requests with a Slack bot that routes and acts.
- Recruiting
Worked example: resume screening for a staffing agency
An illustrative worked example of resume screening for a generic staffing agency, with assumed numbers, no client result. A recruiter approves every shortlist.
- Customer support
What Claude fable 5.1 means for your ticket cost
Anthropic made Claude fable 5.1 generally available on Sept 1, with much cheaper cache reads. Here is what that does to your support ticket cost.
- Operations
AI for data entry: stop re-keying between systems
An ops lead's guide to ending the daily csv-export-and-re-key shuffle between quickbooks, Salesforce, and your own app. Real integrations plus an AI layer.