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Field notes from Nezam AI — essays on shipping AI in real businesses.

Your most important AI hire is already in the building — 76% of CEOs are hiring a chief AI officer. 57% are promoted from inside. Most AI deployments don't fail at the model — they fail without a named operator. (2026-05-19)
Why we named the company "the system" — An Arabic word for order, structure, arrangement. We didn't name the company after a product. We named it after the discipline. (2026-05-15)
Why most AI pilots die after the demo — The pilot worked. The demo got applause. Then nothing happened. Here's the gap between "the model works" and "the system holds" — and how to plan around it from day one. (2026-05-04)
The audit-build-operate model — Three phases. Fixed scope. Weekly demos. Why the consulting model most firms use is built for change orders, and how a deployment model is different from a billable-hours model. (2026-04-22)
The five questions every audit answers — Where is the time going? Where is the money going? What is fragile? What is repeatable? What is the next dollar worth automating? Asked in that order, they are the entire audit. (2026-04-15)
Make.com vs n8n vs custom Claude: when to use what — A decision matrix from someone who's shipped all three, written for operators who have to live with the choice for the next two years. (2026-04-08)
22-unit property manager: 18 hours back, every week — A four-week build replaced the manual intake-to-lease pipeline at a small Toronto property management operation. Here's the architecture, the cost, and the part the case studies usually leave out. (2026-03-26)