FIELD NOTES FOR REVENUE OPERATORS

The systems behind
useful AI.

Original thinking on context, decisions, agents and the work required to put AI into production across marketing, sales and customer service.

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02 / THE LIBRARY

Read by the decision in front of you.

Each field note takes one difficult AI question and gives your revenue team a clear way forward.

Showing 13 field notes

02System design

How do we move from ad hoc prompts to a dependable revenue system?

The prompt is not the system.

RevOps, Marketing Ops & Sales Ops5 min read
03Operating AI

How do we make variable AI behaviour dependable enough for revenue work?

Stop asking AI to behave like software.

Revenue leaders sponsoring AI5 min read
04Human judgment

What becomes valuable when AI can produce almost anything?

Knowing what good looks like.

Marketing, sales & customer leaders5 min read
05Agent boundaries

How much autonomy should a revenue agent actually have?

Your agent needs better boundaries.

Revenue leaders deploying agents5 min read
06Operating model

Where does the work go when AI handles the visible task?

AI moves the work upstream.

Revenue leaders redesigning work4 min read
07AI economics

What does a production AI system actually cost?

Frontier models are not cheap.

CFOs, RevOps & revenue leaders5 min read
08Value attribution

How do we recognise an AI ROI claim that cannot be trusted?

€100 in. €1 million out. Run.

Revenue leaders evaluating AI5 min read
09Operational expertise

What do people actually need to know to operate AI well?

AI can hide the absence of expertise.

Revenue leaders responsible for AI5 min read
10AI agency selection

What should an AI agency actually deliver?

What should an AI agency actually deliver?

Revenue leaders choosing an AI partner7 min read
11Custom AI agents

When does an AI agent genuinely need to be custom?

When does an AI agent need to be custom?

Leaders evaluating an agent build6 min read
12Agentic marketing

What does agentic marketing change beyond content production?

What does agentic marketing change?

Marketing and revenue leaders7 min read
13Agent builder selection

Which AI agent builder is best for the system you need to operate?

How should you choose an AI agent builder?

Teams choosing how to build an AI agent8 min read
14Multi-agent architecture

When does a business problem genuinely need multiple AI agents?

When does multi-agent AI make sense?

Teams deciding whether one AI agent is enough8 min read

03 / OUR EDITORIAL FILTER

No recaps. No borrowed
certainty.

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One real tension.

Every field note starts with a contradiction that changes a commercial decision.

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Evidence in view.

We separate what is observed, inferred and still unknown.

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A usable system.

Every field note leaves behind a framework, decision rule or operating test.

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