I'm Trevor.
Operator, writer, skeptic.

I started writing this newsletter after a client project where I watched three people melt a $40k deliverable by trusting a demo.

It became obvious very fast that the gap wasn't about which model you picked. It was about how you set up the work — what the rubric was, where the humans stayed, what you logged. Boring stuff, but the boring stuff is what separates 'this is cool' from 'this is running our ops.'

So I started writing it down. One email a day, small enough that I couldn't cheat. In 2024 that became this newsletter. Three years later it's the thing I spend most of my working hours on, alongside operator work with a handful of companies.

I don't have a take on AGI, I don't run a podcast, and I'm not building the next agent framework. What I do have is 18 years of operator experience, 6 of them shipping AI, and the opinions that survived that.