Most writing about AI tools is produced by people whose job is producing writing about AI tools. This site is the opposite of that.
Everything here is a system I run myself, documented from inside real work — client engagements and a content business — with the failures left in.
I'm Lavi Sahu. For fourteen years I've worked in supply-chain technology consulting, currently as a Director at EY, designing and implementing planning systems — demand planning, inventory optimisation, sales-and-operations planning — for clients in pharma, FMCG, and energy. I did my MBA at NITIE.
That background matters here for one specific reason: I think about AI tools the way I think about a planning platform. Not "is it impressive in a demo," but "does it still earn its place in the workflow eighteen months in, when the novelty's gone and the edge cases have shown up." That's a practitioner's question, and it's the question this whole site is built around.
I'm also not a full-time creator. I write this while holding a demanding job, which is itself part of the point — the workflows here have to work for someone with no spare hours, because I have none to spare.
I only write about what I actually run. Not what's trending, not what an affiliate program paid the most for. If a tool isn't genuinely in my own stack, it doesn't appear. The library will grow slower because of this. That's the trade.
The failures stay in. Every workflow here includes the parts that broke — the step I automated and had to delete, the clever idea that quietly made things worse. The failures are usually more useful than the successes.
Every affiliate link is disclosed, every time. Some links here earn me a commission at no cost to you. I'll always tell you which, and I'll tell you when something I tried didn't make my cut — including things I could have earned a commission on. A recommendation you can't trust is worth less than no recommendation.
Independent consultants, fractional operators, boutique-firm principals, and senior professionals running something serious on the side — people whose scarcest resource is time, not money, and who would rather understand one workflow deeply than skim ten. If you want the tool-of-the-week hype, there are a thousand sites for that. This isn't one of them.
Start with the research workflow that replaced my analyst — it contains, in one concrete example, the philosophy behind everything else here.
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."