We wanted more than a slide deck. Oracle Enterprise Command Centers are easiest to understand when people can see them working. Not as a diagram. Not as a roadmap. Working. That was the goal behind our ECC / Vision implementation: build a live Oracle E-Business Suite Vision environment on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, load Enterprise Command […]
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Our latest project for Tournesol Farms began with four pigs headed to a USDA-inspected processor and a long list of decisions. It ended with cut sheets, inventory planning, customer order documents, and a live pork pre-order system built around the way the farm actually operates. This is a companion to our earlier ChickID project with
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Client work: Tournesol Farms Building ChickID for Tournesol Farms: Practical AI for the Farm At David Norton Consulting, we believe the best technology projects are the ones that meet people directly inside the work they are already doing. For Tournesol Farms, that meant building a tool that feels useful in a barn, at a kitchen
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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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