Draft outreach and client email in your own voice
Cold and Client Email That Doesn't Sound Like a Template
A system prompt for cold and client email — what to open with, what to withhold, and the stock phrases to cut before you hit send.
Writing
Practical takes on AI for local businesses and people who want to understand what's actually happening.
Prompts
System prompts from how we actually write, rewritten so you can paste one in and use it today.
Catch what you can't see because you wrote it
Get a Cold, Honest Edit of Your Own Draft
A system prompt for a fresh-context reviewer — the four defects that account for most professional edits, in the order they actually occur.
Make AI-drafted writing read like a person wrote it
Write Cleaner Prose With Any Model
A short system-prompt block that fixes the two biggest tells of AI writing and asks for prose that varies the way real writing does.
Turn an audit or review into a document that reads like a firm's letterhead
Write Findings a Client Will Trust
A system prompt for client-facing findings — state facts, cut the hedging about your own care, and never explain the document to itself.
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Field Notes · Featured
Six Years to Decompile Melee. The Last Mile Took Days.
Retro game decompilation became one of AI's cleanest tests this year, rebuild a binary byte for byte, or don't. The scene draws its legal line harder than ever.
Onboarding · AI for Business 101
Groundwork before anything else — get organized, get access, ask well.
Field Notes
What AI actually does, plainly, without the hype.
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Field Notes
An Ordinary Tuesday, Running on Agents
What it actually looks like, hour by hour, when a fleet of agents runs the parts of a business an owner used to do by hand. Not sci-fi. A Tuesday.
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Field Notes
What It's Actually Worth
Hours and dollars, worked out plainly. The numbers here are illustrative, not a promise, and built so you can redo the math with your own.
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Field Notes
It Doesn't Remember. It Re-Reads.
AI does not remember you. Something else writes a file about you and hands it over, every single time. What that means for the hype and the paranoia.
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Field Notes
You Did Not Train It. You Wrote It a Note.
Training, prompting and choosing what the model gets handed are three things with three prices. Most people do the cheap one and call it the expensive one.
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Field Notes
The Fourth Interface
A new kind of computing is arriving — the fourth interface ordinary people have lived through. What it is, why it matters, and why your town needs to be ready.
Regulation & Policy
Law, rulemaking, and the political fights shaping what AI is allowed to do.
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Regulation & Policy
North Carolina Has No AI Law. The FTC and Chapter 75 Already Are One.
No statute in Raleigh regulates artificial intelligence. Two laws that predate AI already do the work, with treble damages attached to one of them.
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Regulation & Policy
It Is Not Conscious. Say So While Saying So Is Still Easy.
Anthropic races China on AI capability while studying whether its models might suffer. Write the legal default now, before it gets hard to write calmly.
AI & Everyday Life
What AI is doing to relationships, habits, and ordinary days outside of work.
Workshops
Sessions OCI is running or has run, and what they cover.
