Operating notes
Working systems, honest limits and lessons from operating them.
Public-safe accounts of AI-assisted operations, automation and dependable digital services. The useful decisions are included. Credentials, private data and exploitable configuration are not.
The operating record
What I have built, changed and learned.
These notes document real operating problems, the decisions I owned, where AI or automation helped, the safeguards used and the evidence still missing.
AI-assisted email operations with human approval
A live n8n and API-based workflow for classifying incoming work, preparing useful drafts and preserving human control over external communication.
- n8n
- Gmail API
- Google Pub/Sub
- Cloudflare Workers
- Notion
- Python
From InDesign layouts to web articles and scheduled social posts
A repeatable, approval-gated workflow that converts a finished print issue into structured website articles, prepares a Notion social media calendar and automatically publishes approved Facebook posts.
- Astro
- Notion
- Node.js
- Cloudflare Workers
From weekly Notion hours to draft Xero invoices
A weekly automation that validates approved time records, groups them by client, creates draft Xero invoices and writes the invoice references back to Notion.
- Notion
- Xero
- Gmail
A repeatable maintenance system for a 20-site estate
How wider experience serving around 200 clients informed a WordPress, WP-CLI, Ploi and API-assisted maintenance workflow for a bounded 20-site estate.
- WordPress
- Cloudflare
- Lighthouse
- Notion
- Python