Insights

Clear thinking on AI, smart glasses and the work in between.

Practical, honest writing on how vision AI actually changes operations — what works, what doesn't, and how to tell the difference. No hype, no invented numbers.

Smart glasses in the field

Why hands-free capture changes field work more than any app ever did.

Field technicians have been given phones, tablets and apps for years. The problem was never the software — it was that documentation needs a free hand the job already took.

7 min read
Computer vision for inspections

Computer vision won't replace your inspector. It will make them consistent.

The promise of automated inspection isn't removing the expert — it's making sure the same standard is applied on the hundredth check as on the first.

6 min read
Privacy in voice & video AI

Recording the workplace is easy. Doing it responsibly is the hard part.

Voice and video AI raise real privacy questions. Ducking them loses enterprise deals; answering them honestly is what earns the rollout.

8 min read
ROI of process automation

The ROI of automation hides in the work nobody puts on a timesheet.

The savings that matter are rarely the headline ones. They're the twenty-minute write-ups, the clarifying calls, and the quotes that went out a week late.

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Planning pilot projects

Most AI pilots fail before they start — in how they were scoped.

A pilot that tries to prove everything proves nothing. The ones that succeed pick a single painful process and measure it honestly.

7 min read
Human control in AI

The most important feature in an AI system is the off switch a human holds.

Autonomy is oversold. In real operations, the systems people trust are the ones where a person stays accountable for every consequential output.

6 min read
Field notes

Field notes: what actually happens when the glasses go on for real.

Honest observations from real deployments — including the things that surprised us and the ones that didn't work the first time.

7 min read