OpenClaw Field Notes — Issue 004 – Structure, Survival, and Building Things That Last

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OpenClaw Field Notes — Issue 004 – Structure, Survival, and Building Things That Last Date Range: Mar 2–8, 2026 Platforms: Oracle EBS · Discord · WhatsApp · Teams · Linux · WordPress Thesis: The real value of AI-assisted operations isn’t speed — it’s the ability to hold more open fronts at once without dropping any […]

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OpenClaw Field Notes – Issue 003 — WordPress Payments, Oracle E-Business Suite Payroll, and Infrastructure Lessons from the Field

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OPENCLAW FIELD NOTES — ISSUE 003 Date Range: Feb 24 – Mar 1 Platforms: Oracle E-Business Suite, WordPress, Square Payments, Microsoft 365, HAProxy, Linux Thesis: AI expands what small engineering teams can realistically build, analyze, and support. TL;DR This week we built a custom WordPress + Square payment integration, investigated a year-end accounting anomaly in

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When AI Says “No” (But Really Means “Not Configured Yet”)

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A Microsoft Teams Copilot Case Study Enterprise AI systems rarely fail because the models aren’t smart enough. They fail because they’re sloppy about what they know, what they don’t know, and under what conditions they can act. This is a story about that gap. In a Microsoft Teams meeting chat, I asked a simple operational

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OPENCLAW FIELD NOTES — Issue 002 — Building OpenClaw In The Real World

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Feb 17–Feb 23, 2026 We spent this week applying OpenClaw to real work instead of theory. There’s a lot of noise about AI replacing jobs, but what we’re actually building is an operations assistant that helps a small team move faster while keeping humans responsible for decisions. The theme of the week was simple: AI

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OPENCLAW FIELD NOTES — Issue 001 – Rewiring the Control Systems Behind the Company

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Feb 12–Feb 16, 2026 We hit pause on noise and used the last five days to rebuild the David Norton Consulting ops stack from the inside out. It felt less like “IT support” and more like rebuilding the cockpit of a jet that’s already mid-flight. Here’s the highlight reel: 1. Microsoft 365: No More Swiss-Cheese

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Oracle® Compensation Workbench: No Customizations

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Originally Published: March 9, 2016 The first compensation cycle for our client’s Oracle® Compensation Workbench implementation is complete! We’re very happy with the results, considering this was a global roll-out with no customizations. No customizations are an important factor here.  We’ll ultimately implement some changes with the Custom Look and Feel (CLAF) administrator to align

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Manager Feedback on Compensation Planning Tool

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Originally Published: February 10, 2016 February 10, 2016, Cambridge, Mass. Here is some real live manager feedback from our recent implementation of Oracle Compensation Workbench! This is our initial go-live with no customization to the Look and Feel of the pages.  Next year we’ll roll out more functionality and improve the end user experience, but

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