Date Range: May 18–May 24, 2026 Platforms: Oracle EBS (Vision) · Linux Web Tier · Discord Thesis: Credibility comes from stable demos, deployable artifacts, and operator accountability — not hype. Shipped 01 — Vision Demo Demo surface + interface options delivered — restored the Vision web tier and presented implementation paths for EBS Absences → […]
OpenClaw Field Notes — Issue 014 Define the Object Before You Automate It Date Range: May 11–May 17, 2026 Platforms: Discord · Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online) Thesis: A surprising amount of “automation” fails because people mean different things by the same words. Shipped 01 — M365 Ops Mailbox creation runbook tightened — turned “create a
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OpenClaw Field Notes — Issue 013 Tag It Before You Touch It Date Range: May 4–May 10, 2026 Platforms: Gateway · CXO Personas · Portal Auth · Host Ops Thesis: Updates aren’t hard. Preserving your working system while you update is the hard part. Shipped 01 — Platform OpenClaw updated cleanly — moved the whole
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OpenClaw Field Notes — Issue 012 If It’s Not Allowlisted, It Doesn’t Exist Date Range: Apr 27–May 3, 2026 Platforms: WhatsApp · Discord · Gateway Ops Thesis: Most “AI failures” are really routing, permissions, and configuration failures. Shipped 01 — Messaging WhatsApp “silence” debugged — documented the two common failure modes (allowlist-only routing + self-chat
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OpenClaw Field Notes — Issue 011 Permission the Path, Then Automate It Date Range: Apr 20–Apr 26, 2026 Platforms: Discord · Teams · Microsoft 365 (Exchange/Graph) · Portal UI Thesis: AI doesn’t fail at thinking first. It fails at the interfaces: access, delivery, permissions, and trust. Shipped 01 — M365 Ops Shared mailbox workflow hardened
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OpenClaw Field Notes — Issue 010 Two Agents. One Runbook. Zero Terminal. Date Range: Apr 13–Apr 19, 2026 Platforms: Discord Threads · Web Portal · Oracle EBS (Oracle Vision Demo) Thesis: AI execution scales when it’s governed, logged, and runnable from the operator surface. Shipped 01 — Oracle Vision Demo Standup Oracle Vision Demo deployment
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OpenClaw Field Notes — Issue 009 When the Guardrails Break, Throughput Dies Date Range: Apr 6–Apr 12, 2026 Platforms: Teams · Discord · WhatsApp (flaky) · OCI Vault Thesis: Reliability isn’t “nice.” It’s the prerequisite for automation. Shipped 01 — Control Plane Approvals + routing triage — surfaced the real failure modes (instant-expire approvals, wrong-consumer
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Two AIs Walk Into a Data Center One could execute anything. The other knew when to stop. We expected this to take a couple of hours. I’ve deployed an Oracle E-Business Suite Vision environment in that time before — but without a load balancer, HTTPS, or full production routing in place. This time, we gave
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OpenClaw Field Notes — Issue 008 – If Access Isn’t Deterministic, Support Doesn’t Scale. Date Range: Mar 30–Apr 5, 2026 Platforms: Teams · Discord · WordPress · Oracle/OCI Thesis: Repeatable access paths beat fragile rituals. Shipped 01 — Core Business DB access standardized — repeatable connectivity for VPN-only Oracle EBS databases (no more “it only
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OpenClaw Field Notes — Issue 007 Date Range: Mar 23–30, 2026Platforms: Teams · WhatsApp · Discord · WordPress · OCIThesis: Repeatable systems beat impressive demos. Win 01 — Platform CXO portal shipped — a secure, role-based control plane so active work isn’t trapped in chat threads. Win 02 — Core Business Oracle EBS support workflows
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