CLAUDE.md Best Practices: What Our 223-Line File Taught Us
Oct 11, 2026 · 9 min read
CLAUDE.md best practices from a 223-line file: what goes in, what belongs in a skill, where nested files go, and a starter template under 25 lines.
Read moreWhat I learned running a company on Claude. The real numbers and the parts that broke.
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Decision Log: Write Down the Rulings Your AI Follows
Oct 10, 2026 · 8 min read
Our decision log is one append-only file of rulings our AI loads before drafting proposals. Six of the first came from one person's private AI memory.
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What Is Tribal Knowledge? Five Places Ours Hid From Our AI
Oct 9, 2026 · 6 min read
Tribal knowledge is what your team knows and never wrote down. Ours hid in five places, including a README that said 73 rules when the file had 151.
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We Deleted 52 Claude Code Skills in Three Months
Oct 8, 2026 · 7 min read
Our Claude Code skills and commands went from 41 to 103 in a month. We deleted 52, the one we missed came back better, and the pile grew back anyway.
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AI for Onboarding New Employees: What Worked on Three Hires
Oct 7, 2026 · 7 min read
We used AI to onboard three hires with kits written from docs we already had. It caught stale docs before they did and got day one wrong.
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Why AI Agents Fail in Production: 8 Times Our Tools Lied
Oct 6, 2026 · 7 min read
Our company brain broke more often from bad inputs than from the model. Eight times a tool returned a wrong answer with no error, and the check we added.
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Can Claude Send Emails for You? Ours Drafts and Never Sends
Oct 5, 2026 · 7 min read
Claude can send Gmail for you as of August 2026, with approval on by default. Ours found 626 replies we owed, drafts them, and sends none.
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AI Bookkeeping With Claude: 15 Months, Then QuickBooks
Oct 4, 2026 · 8 min read
Can AI do your bookkeeping? Ours, built on Claude, sorted 559 transactions with none left uncategorized. We still moved to QuickBooks. Here's why.
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AI for Writing SOPs: Draft From What Actually Happened
Oct 3, 2026 · 7 min read
AI writes useful SOPs when it drafts from real projects. How we wrote a 435-line kickoff SOP from three retros, and what we don't let the AI write.
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Claude Code Use Cases for Business: What Our 66 Commands Do
Oct 2, 2026 · 7 min read
Claude Code use cases for business that pay off put documents in and get documents out. What our 66 commands do by department, and where each falls short.
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AI Meeting Action Items: Ours Made 1,042 Tasks in 4 Months
Oct 1, 2026 · 7 min read
Our AI turned meetings and email into 1,042 tasks in four months, mostly noise. Telling it to bundle failed. A script that does the counting worked.
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Two Founders, One Company Brain, and the Duplicate Problem
Sep 30, 2026 · 7 min read
My co-founder and I each run an AI day-end process over the same clients. Keeping it from filing everything twice took a shared table and cross-inbox keys.
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