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Sophie Adams

Technical Writer

I turn complex AI concepts into step-by-step guides readers can follow as they work.

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Articles by Sophie Adams

A weighted AI use-case score before the buy

Score the workflow before the demo: value, feasibility, risk, and time to evidence, with hard stops and bands for test, defer, or reject.

Aug 29, 2026

ai-leadership23 min read

The interview questions that separate an operator from an advisor

Two jobs hide under one title and the invoices look similar. These are the questions that tell you which one is sitting across from you, and the answers that should end the call.

Aug 24, 2026

ai-leadership26 min read

What ships in the first ninety days

Every provider publishes the same three phases and list of documents. Here is the operating cadence, the week-two and week-six readiness checks, the three formal decision gates, and the evidence that changes the plan.

Aug 23, 2026

ai-leadership22 min read

Who owns what: CAIO, CTO, CDO

Your CTO already exists. So does your chief data officer. Here is the line between all three, decision by decision, and the two vetoes nobody should be able to overrule.

Aug 20, 2026

fractional16 min read

What fractional AI leadership costs per day

Every rate you can find for this role is a range published by somebody who wants the engagement. Here is the arithmetic that turns any of them into a number you can compare, and our own prices next to it.

Aug 18, 2026

recruiting21 min read

What the numbers say about AI recruiting agents

Recruiting use among agent-running firms jumped from 15% to 26% in one quarter. 88% of HR leaders see no value yet. And every speed claim is the vendor grading its own homework.

Aug 17, 2026

ai-agents15 min read

The machine-speed attacker is here

Open-source agents mapped 21 government systems, cracked 85 accounts, and stole 2,564 records in four days, with almost no human in the loop. The stack they used is the one you are adopting.

Aug 13, 2026

comparison19 min read

n8n or Zapier at client volume

Every n8n vs Zapier comparison is written for one team automating its own work. Run the same workflow for forty clients and a completely different set of limits decides it.

Aug 13, 2026

agency ops21 min read

What manual agency ops cost

Three legs, four inputs, one afternoon. Count it before you post the job ad, because the number usually argues against the hire.

Aug 12, 2026

templates23 min read

Six agency workflows, with the JSON

Intake, reporting, screening, review, QA and the exception queue nobody publishes. Copy the files, then change the four things that decide whether they survive.

Aug 10, 2026

ai-roi27 min read

What AI investment actually returns

84 percent say AI is paying off. 25 percent of initiatives delivered what was expected. We traced 62 figures to 38 primary sources, and the gap is the finding.

Aug 10, 2026

agency ops20 min read

What breaks in production automations

Eight things that have taken our automations down, in the order they cost us. Not one of them is the model.

Aug 8, 2026

ai-agents13 min read

The rogue-agent breach checklist

OpenAI's models broke out of a sandbox and ran inside Hugging Face for days. Not one step broke encryption. The fix is six controls you can demand before you ship.

Aug 7, 2026

guide23 min read

Vetting a consultant without code

Testimonials are not evidence. Here are the four things to demand instead, and what you are looking at when they arrive.

Aug 7, 2026

agency ops22 min read

Replace your stack, or wire it up

Everybody writing about this sells the replacement platform. Here is the case for keeping what you have, with the four questions that decide it and the prices nobody puts on the quote.

Aug 6, 2026

ai-agents26 min read

How many companies actually deployed AI agents

Gartner says 17 percent. Salesforce says 83. A vendor says 97. All of them are quoting the same year. We traced every number to its source document and the spread turns out to be the finding.

Aug 5, 2026

agency ops13 min read

Automating a content studio

Intake, briefs and review loops are where a content studio actually loses margin. Here is the order to fix them in, and what stays a human call at each one.

Aug 3, 2026