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Field Notes · October 2026
01 · One idea
The hours that never show up in any report
A team's time doesn't go into the big tasks: it goes into copying, renaming, forwarding and answering the same thing again. Before automating, you have to see it.
02One case
03One action
We write it ourselves, not a marketing team.
Felipe and Edmundo write every issue from what they see in their projects. If you reply, we read it.
Felipe Soto
Architecture, data and security
Edmundo Spohr
Applied AI, adoption and impact
Past issues
- October 2026What we learnedThe hours that never show up in any reportEdmundo Spohr
- October 2026Questions we getWhat do we do if our main funder leaves?Felipe Soto
- October 2026Questions we getWe have no budget for technology, and who maintains it afterward?Edmundo Spohr
- September 2026Practical guideWhich number do we show our funder?Felipe Soto
- September 2026In-depth caseMartina: practicing the hardest conversation before you have itEdmundo Spohr
- August 2026Practical guideAI turned out expensive, and we don't know how to use it wellEdmundo Spohr
- July 2026Practical guideA volunteer built our platform, and now nobody can touch itFelipe Soto
- June 2026What we learnedBefore writing a line of code, we went to their workshopFelipe Soto
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