Plenty of people write about building automations and AI agents. This is about running them: what breaks at month three, how they fail without telling you, and what it takes to keep them alongside real orders, real customers and real money. Everything here comes from systems in production, not from a demo built to illustrate a point.
7 guides. Each covers one area end to end and hands off to the notes underneath it.
n8n · 3 notesWhat changes when a workflow tool stops being a toy: versioning, webhook reliability, exposure, and the failures that produce no error at all.
Support · 3 notesInbound mail into tickets, a model that classifies rather than replies, and the traps that turn a support desk into a machine talking to machines.
Orders · 6 notesThe unglamorous half of an automated business: matching money to records, references humans can read, and getting your hardware back.
Visitors · 7 notesPer-visit records instead of aggregates, first touch instead of last click, and why a working channel can read as zero.
Being found · 11 notesWhat actually moves AI citations, what is measurement noise, and the boring technical failures that stop you being read at all.
Email and DNS · 8 notesSPF limits, sending domains with no reputation, tenant moves that lose mail, and the failures that report success.
Infrastructure · 19 notesDeploys that did not deploy, firewalls that are not the firewall, growth that crosses a limit, and backups nobody has restored.
Most writing about automation is produced by people who built a demo. It is confident, tidy, and wrong in exactly the places that only show up once something is carrying real traffic.
The failures worth documenting are rarely the loud ones. A change that throws an error costs ten minutes. A change that applies cleanly, reads back correctly, and quietly does nothing can cost days before anyone notices the thing they fixed is still broken. Those are the ones written up here.
Each note is narrow on purpose. One problem, the mechanism behind it, how to confirm you have it, and what actually resolves it. No introductions, no filler, and no pretending a workaround is a fix.
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