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Volume I
— Filed from a working practice —
12 · 06 · 2026
automation/diary
est. 2026 · automationdiary.com
Automation, shown not sold.
Filed from inside real work
A working notebook, published

Walk into the S&OP pitch knowing why their last implementation stalled — in 41 minutes.

Real output from the workflow, names redacted. The 41 minutes is after building it — and two steps failed on the way. Both are written up.

New entries + the $29 template release, when it exists. No schedule, no filler. Or read the workflow first →

Tension Brief — [PROSPECT REDACTED] Working copy · Redacted
Prepared before first pursuit call · Research time: 41 minutes
What they say publicly
"Integrated business planning live across all regions; demand accuracy and end-to-end visibility improving on plan."
What the signals say
Three demand planners left in eight months. Backfill reqs ask for "advanced Excel" — not the planning platform they supposedly run on. The new tool is live, but finance still closes the cycle in a spreadsheet nobody will name.
The tension
The rollout is "done" on the org chart and unfinished in the room. Walk in naming the gap between go-live and adoption — and you're the first person who's been honest with them.
DO NOT SAY ON THE CALL: anything containing the phrase "control tower."

Illustrative brief — structure and method real, prospect details invented.

The method

Gather.
Compress.
Provoke.

Gather Automated

One curated intake note per prospect: filings, press, planning job postings, exec movement.

Compress Automated

One instruction to the model: do not summarise — contrast. Tension is where the meeting lives.

Provoke Always human

You decide what the tensions mean. This stage stays human, always.

The full write-up →
The template

Prospect Intake + Tension Brief

The working version of the workflow — not a course about it.

  • The intake template
  • The prompt chain, in order
  • Signal sources, mapped for supply chain
  • The failure notes

Plain text. No subscription, no app.

Written for supply-chain consultants and planning leads in the SAP IBP, o9, and OMP world — people whose recommendations land in front of a planning VP.

One workflow · Yours forever

$29
Not on sale yet

One first meeting where you arrive with a sharp read instead of a summary is worth more than this costs. Hold me to it.

The diary so far

Three entries. Not three hundred.

Why this site is small on purpose

Everything here was built in public, at the pace the work allows.

May 2026

Launched with three essays. Real workflows, written after the fact.

June

Audited myself. Stripped every fake number and invented testimonial this site briefly had.

Now

One product in build. It goes on sale when it exists, not before.

Next

Real anonymized field outputs, once clients can't be identified.

Everything missing from this site is missing on purpose. The diary fills in public.

One real workflow, in your inbox, when it's ready.

No schedule. No filler. No sponsored placements. A new build goes out only when it's worth your ten minutes — usually every 2–4 weeks.

"I'll only send you something I would have written even if nobody paid me to. The day that stops, the newsletter stops."

Cadence Only when a build is worth your ten minutes
NewJust launched
2–4 wkBetween issues
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