Field Notes · New Essays Monthly

Notes from the shipping floor.

Tactical writing on AI workflows, Claude Code automations, GenAI content systems, and how we build creative engines for founder-led brands.

60+
Pipelines shipped
4
Systems / engine
100%
Source Handoff

All essays · 8

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Content··9 min

We built a 4-system content engine. Here's the actual stack.

Not a deck. The literal tools, prompts and pipes behind 30 days of content for a D2C brand.

Vaidehi KhuntVaidehi Khunt
Automations··7 min

n8n in production: the 7 nodes we reach for in every pipeline

After 60+ shipped flows, these are the primitives that survive the edge cases.

Tarun ChelumallaTarun Chelumalla
Content··8 min

Voice-cloning your founder without the uncanny valley

A fingerprint of how a founder actually writes (beats, fillers, asides) beats any "sound like a CEO" prompt every time.

Vaidehi KhuntVaidehi Khunt
Case Studies··11 min

UGC at machine scale: 800 variants from one source brief

A teardown of the system we used to ship 800 ad-ready UGC pieces in 30 days for a skincare brand.

Vaidehi KhuntVaidehi Khunt
Studio··5 min

Why we don't offer retainers (and what we ship instead)

Retainers reward bloat. Project-based shipping rewards finished systems. Here's how we structure the work.

Vaidehi KhuntVaidehi Khunt
AI··6 min

Prompt-as-spec: writing prompts the way engineers write tickets

Inputs. Constraints. Acceptance criteria. The bridge between PMs and AI agents.

Tarun ChelumallaTarun Chelumalla
Automations··10 min

Campaign pipelines that don't break on the third launch

Idempotency, retries, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints. The boring parts that make the magic ship.

Tarun ChelumallaTarun Chelumalla
Content··4 min

GenAI against the slop: how to tell when output is yours

A short, mean checklist for spotting AI-generic before it ships under your brand.

Vaidehi KhuntVaidehi Khunt

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