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Notes from the team — what we're building, why, and what we're learning.

QA Automation

BugHunter Pro: QA automation that writes, runs, and fixes tests

May 26, 20269 min read

How BugHunter Pro explores frontend and backend code, generates Playwright tests, executes them in Chromium, traces failures to source code, applies targeted fixes, and re-tests the application.

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Data Warehouse Optimization

Ask My Data — query Databricks insurance data in plain English

May 27, 20268 min read

How Ask My Data discovers schema, generates safe read-only Databricks SQL, executes the query, and returns results with a clear answer summary.

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Database Automation

Stored Procedure Automation with AI

May 7, 20267 min read

Automating stored procedure creation with AI: from natural language requirements to production-ready SQL code, including validation, testing, and deployment apps.

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Product

Why we built InsightWorker

April 28, 20265 min read

After a decade building data platforms for insurance and finance, the same problem kept showing up: smart people doing repetitive work that AI could handle — if only it could safely touch live systems.

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Migration

Migrating Redshift to Oracle ADW with an AI worker

April 22, 20268 min read

A walkthrough of the dag-migration-compare skill — from a fresh /workflow command to a fully translated DAG, stored procedures, and DDLs with a change-report ready for review.

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Insurance

Email-style learning for underwriters

April 15, 20266 min read

Generic AI drafts read like AI. We built a skill that samples your sent items, extracts your personal style, and uses it to draft replies that actually sound like you.

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Data Science

Cutting weeks off the ML cycle: a churn prediction journey with InsightWorker

May 8, 202610 min read

After eight years building propensity, churn, and fraud models, I'd accepted that 70% of the work was data wrangling and 25% was hyperparameter tuning. Then I let an agent handle both. Here's the full journey from manual three-week cycles to a two-day retrain — and where I think it goes next.

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Product Management

Building a Virtual PM with InsightWorker — my 6 PM weekday digest, automated

May 8, 202611 min read

Eight years of running standups across three companies, and the one thing I never got right was the daily sprint digest. Either I sent it inconsistently, or it took 45 minutes I didn't have. Then I built a Virtual PM with InsightWorker. Here's how it runs my standup prep now.

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DevOps & SRE

Building an L1 Virtual Support Agent: the first 15 minutes of an incident, automated

May 8, 202611 min read

I've been on call for six years. The first fifteen minutes of every page were the same: open six tabs, hunt for the runbook, screenshot Grafana, grep logs, page L2 because I couldn't find context fast enough. I built an L1 Virtual Support Agent with InsightWorker that does those fifteen minutes for me. Mean-time-to-diagnose is down from twenty-eight minutes to nine.

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