Field notes
Notes from the field.
What we're learning from building and landing governed AI systems inside real businesses — written plainly, by the people doing the work.
Written from the work.
Written when there is something worth saying, by whichever of us has it. Both founders also write on LinkedIn — Trent Peek and Richard Ardis.
22 August 2026 · Trent
Pallets & Pilots — working with Walker Logistics.
A family-owned Berkshire 3PL that started in a converted hangar on a wartime airfield in 1999. Who they are, and why the record matters more than the announcement.
10 August 2026 · Trent
The process that only works because someone remembers how.
Frontier AI is built for enterprise, so everyone else gets headlines instead of help. What we actually tell a business to do first.
10 August 2026 · Trent
The work nobody wanted to do.
The businesses getting the most from AI are not using it to do more. They are using it to take work away.
6 July 2026 · Trent
The £400 back office.
The honest arithmetic of running a 30-agent fleet — including the part the £400 doesn't buy.
29 June 2026 · Richard
Landing AI with a team that's worried about it.
The fear is rational. Treating it as an obstacle is how adoption fails.
22 June 2026 · Trent
One bad call: how an agent's autonomy is withdrawn.
Everyone asks how agents earn trust. The better question is how they lose it.
15 June 2026 · Trent
Inside an approval queue.
What earned autonomy actually looks like on a Tuesday morning.
8 June 2026 · Trent
What we tell clients not to automate.
The Blueprint deliverable that saves more money than the one that gets built.
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Thirty minutes with the founders. Plain answers about where AI would pay in your business — and where it wouldn't.