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Reproducible recipes from systems running here — editorial agents, retrieval stacks, conversion plumbing, and a live AdCP signals agent. What shipped, and what broke.

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  1. 01
    Aug 2026

    The Gate That Said No

    I rebuilt the retrieval system behind Ask Evgeny in one day: traces on every query, a 975-node knowledge graph, authority buckets on every position, and three model upgrades running in shadow. The most important thing that shipped is the feature that measured itself and refused to launch.

  2. 02
    Jul 2026

    One Event, Three Machines: Orchestrating Conversions Across PMax, Advantage+, and OpenAI Ads

    The signal architecture that makes one conversion land once across Google, Meta, and OpenAI ads — why the three platforms are complementary, why you can't dedupe walled gardens but can out-hub them, and the incrementality question underneath all of it.

  3. 03
    Jul 2026

    Give Your Writing a Brain

    A complete build recipe for putting a grounded answer engine on top of your own writing: chunk the corpus, embed it, retrieve with a multi-lane hybrid, generate with hard grounding rules, track when your own positions change so the system never quotes a retracted stance as current, and expose it two ways — as an MCP connector any chat client can use, and as a chat box on your own site. Every part runs on one Cloudflare Worker for near-nothing. The honest version: the architecture, the guardrails that keep it from lying, the four bugs that actually cost me an afternoon, and the loop that makes it smarter every time you publish.

  4. 04
    Jun 2026

    Notes from the Implementer Seat

    What running a live AdCP signals agent teaches you that reading the spec never will.

  5. 05
    Mar 2026

    Automate Lead Qualification in 90 Minutes....

    A reproducible Rube + Claude + Slack recipe. From inbox to scored lead in under 30 seconds.

  6. 06
    Feb 2026

    Stop reading about "The Agentic Future"...

    Start building it. A bi-monthly tutorial series on shipping real GTM agents in Rube, Claude, n8n.

  7. 07
    Apr 2025

    Guide: How I’d Build a Delta Air Lines Campaign for Possible in Miami

    A walk-through of anonymized PII + psychographic profiling + LLM-driven creative for a single high-value persona.