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

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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