Field Notes · No. 4April 11, 20265 min read
I opened the studio
Kingbird Solutions is a small Phoenix studio shipping Claude skills, AI automations, playbooks, and studio partnerships for SMBs. Two partnership openings for May.
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Notes from the bench.
Weekly essays on running a small studio and shipping AI tools for SMBs. What's working, what's broken, what I'm betting on next.
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Field Notes · No. 3April 9, 20265 min read
Small studio vs. consulting agency vs. full-time hire
Three ways SMBs try to close a delivery or ops gap. One of them is almost always wrong for the size of the problem.
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Field Notes · No. 2April 2, 20263 min read
Safety apps are marketed to the wrong people
Every safety app I've seen is sold to the person doing the watching. The person who needs one is the person in the crowd.
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Field Notes · No. 1March 26, 20263 min read
What Decadence taught me about building a safety app nobody asked for
Three seconds of watching a VIP structure sway under crowd weight at a festival changed what I was building. The story of how RaveDaddy became BuddySOS.
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