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Build logs, architecture decisions, and ops patterns from production deployments.
Why Solar EPC Coordination Overhead Is Eating Your Margins
A 15-project solar EPC spends an estimated 23 hours per week on permit follow-up, document intake, and subcontractor coordination.
The Solar EPC Closeout Checklist That Runs Itself
A closeout checklist built as a Google Sheets template, plus how the Field Agent auto-populates it from inbound emails and SMS.
How I Built an AI Agent to Track AHJ Permits Across Multiple Jurisdictions
A detailed walkthrough of the MCP tool design, Supabase schema, and the specific AHJ communication patterns that required custom parsing logic.
Automating Subcontractor Follow-Up Without Burning Relationships
The exact email templates and timing rules the Field Agent uses to follow up with subcontractors — polite, persistent, and effective.
AI Email Triage for Construction: What Actually Works
A classification taxonomy for construction inboxes, tested on real solar EPC email. What the agent gets right, and where it still needs a human loop.
Shadow Mode: How to Test AI Agents Before They Touch Real Data
A methodology for running agents in shadow mode: observing, comparing, and promoting only when accuracy meets your threshold.
The Monday Digest: What an AI Operations Supervisor Actually Sends
A sample weekly digest from the Ops Supervisor: what it includes, how it's structured, and why PMs actually read it.
Permit Expiry Warnings That Actually Prevent Surprises
How the Permit Agent tracks expiry dates, calculates warning windows, and escalates before deadlines become problems.
What Still Stays Human in AI-Augmented EPC Operations
An honest look at the limits: the decisions, relationships, and edge cases that still need a human in the loop.
AgentMail + Paperclip: The Stack I Chose and Why
A stack comparison and the reasoning behind choosing AgentMail for email-native agents and Paperclip for the orchestration layer.
From Solar EPC to Energy: Why This Is the Right Proving Ground for AI Agents
Why solar EPC is the ideal beachhead for agent systems in energy — and how the pattern extends to utilities, O&M, and storage.
Field Crew Check-Ins via SMS — A Pattern That Actually Works
Getting foremen to report status without a new app, training, or overhead. SMS + Twilio + a forgiving parser covers 90% of what you need.