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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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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 ops22 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