Amanda Crawford

AI Implementation Specialist. Building systems that make AI actually work inside organizations.

AI Implementation

Aug 4, 2026

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2 min read

You Already Have a Model Router

The industry wants to sell you routing middleware. You need an org chart.

Amanda Crawford

AI Implementation

Everyone's "Doing Something" About AI. Almost No One's Using It.

Jul 28, 2026

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2 min read

Everyone's "Doing Something" About AI. Almost No One's Using It.

New data puts numbers on the gap this newsletter exists for — and a 30-person experiment at Uber shows what closing it actually looks like.

Amanda Crawford

AI Implementation

Seven Weeks of Silence and One Bad Headline

Jul 16, 2026

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2 min read

Seven Weeks of Silence and One Bad Headline

The last edition I sent you had an error in the headline. Fixing it explains where I've been.

Amanda Crawford

AI Implementation

Most of Your AI Rules Don't Mean What You Think They Mean

May 19, 2026

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5 min read

Most of Your AI Rules Don't Mean What You Think They Mean

There's a 50-year-old internet standard for telling the difference. Most AI policy docs have never heard of it.

Amanda Crawford

AI Implementation

I Wrote 25 Rules to Fix My AI. Compliance Dropped to 7%.

May 12, 2026

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4 min read

I Wrote 25 Rules to Fix My AI. Compliance Dropped to 7%.

The harder I tried to govern it, the less it complied. There's math that explains why.

Amanda Crawford

AI Implementation

I Built an AI That Runs While I Sleep. It Booted 13 Times Before I Caught the Gap.

May 5, 2026

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3 min read

I Built an AI That Runs While I Sleep. It Booted 13 Times Before I Caught the Gap.

The invisible AI problem isn't hypothetical — I lived it this weekend.

Amanda Crawford

Business

I Built an Entire Agent Operating System Over the Weekend. Then the Model Changed.

Apr 28, 2026

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4 min read

I Built an Entire Agent Operating System Over the Weekend. Then the Model Changed.

Nine phases done. Nearly thirty git commits. Then I found out I'd been working with a different model the whole time.

Amanda Crawford

Enterprise AI

Apr 14, 2026

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8 min read

The 7% Problem Is Worse Than You Think

Four enterprise AI studies landed in the same week. Different researchers, different methodologies, different sample sizes. They all pointed at the same problem, and if you're working on AI inside an organization right now, you've probably already felt it.

Amanda Crawford

AI Implementation

Apr 8, 2026

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6 min read

The Gap Nobody's Hiring For

The skill between configuring AI tools and building them isn't engineering — it's operations.

Amanda Crawford

Amanda Crawford

You Already Have a Model Router

Everyone's "Doing Something" About AI. Almost No One's Using It.

Seven Weeks of Silence and One Bad Headline

Most of Your AI Rules Don't Mean What You Think They Mean

I Wrote 25 Rules to Fix My AI. Compliance Dropped to 7%.

I Built an AI That Runs While I Sleep. It Booted 13 Times Before I Caught the Gap.

I Built an Entire Agent Operating System Over the Weekend. Then the Model Changed.

The 7% Problem Is Worse Than You Think

The Gap Nobody's Hiring For

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