The Hewn Field Guide
Keeping up with AI has become its own full-time job. This is us doing that job for you.
Every week. Plain language, no hype, from people who build this for a living.
What's in it
What changed, and whether it matters to you. There is an enormous amount of noise. Most of it will not affect how you run your business. We will tell you the parts that do.
Tools worth your time. What we are using, what we tried and dropped, and what is not ready yet. Honest about all three.
How to think about it. Some questions deserve more than a paragraph. Those get a longer piece, with an argument in it rather than a summary.
Real work, shown. A workflow rebuilt in front of you, with the hours it actually saved.
What we got wrong. The thing we tried that didn't work, and what it cost.
Who it's for
Owners and operators of small businesses, in any line of work, who are losing hours to work that doesn't deserve them.
You don't need to understand AI to read this. That's the point.
Who's writing it
I'm Ryan, co-founder of Hewn Consulting in Tampa. We shape AI to fit how a business already works, so the hours go back into the work that drew you in.
I build the tools I recommend. My business partner runs his entire creative studio on a custom agent pipeline. We run our own company on the stack we install. That is also how we know what doesn't work.
Every issue is written by hand. We use AI for plenty around here. Not for this.
I'll tell you when AI isn't the answer.
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