Insights & Ideas

Practical thoughts on IT support, customer success, automation, and building systems that work

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Industry Shift

88% of AI Agent Pilots Never Reach Production. Here's What's Actually Stopping Them.

Research puts the pilot-to-production failure rate at 88%. Here's what's actually stopping AI agent projects from shipping — and the four-question filter to apply before you build anything.

June 9, 2026 Read More →
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Industry Shift

Zendesk Switched to Per-Resolution Billing. Here's What That Actually Costs.

Zendesk's AI now auto-bills per resolved ticket since January 2026 — with no cap warning. Here's the real math at different support volumes, and how Help Scout is playing a different game.

June 5, 2026 Read More →
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Automation

I Built an Agentic Support Workflow Before "Agentic" Was a Word. Here's What It Actually Does.

A practitioner's account of building an n8n + Claude API workflow that autonomously handles support ticket triage — before Gartner named it the hottest technology of 2026.

June 2, 2026 Read More →
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Career

IT Certifications Worth Your Time in 2026 (And the Ones You Can Skip)

A practitioner's honest take on which certifications open real doors — CompTIA, Microsoft, Google — and which ones belong at the bottom of your priority list.

May 29, 2026 Read More →
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Industry Shift

OpenAI Just Built a Consulting Firm. What In-House IT Teams Should Do About It.

OpenAI's $4 billion Deployment Company just landed 150 engineers ready to embed inside your organization. Here's what in-house IT ops and automation specialists need to understand about the shift.

May 26, 2026 Read More →
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Industry Shift

What Happens When AI Handles 90% of Your Helpdesk Tickets

ServiceNow's Autonomous Workforce claims to resolve 90% of L1 IT requests with no human in the loop. What it actually replaces, what it doesn't, and what to do if you're in IT support right now.

May 22, 2026 Read More →
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Tool Deep-Dive

Claude vs ChatGPT for IT Support Work: An Honest Take from Someone Who Uses Both Every Day

I run both models in production across support, automation, and IT ops. Here's where each one actually earns its keep — and where each will let you down.

May 19, 2026 Read More →
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Industry Analysis

Phone Support Is on the Way Out. Here's What's Taking Its Place.

The best support teams in 2026 are winning by defaulting to async. Not because it's trendy — because the math finally works. Here's what changed and how to make the shift.

May 15, 2026 Read More →
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Practical How-To

Google Is Rejecting Your Emails. Here’s How to Set Up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC in One Afternoon

Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft now hard-reject unauthenticated email. Here’s the plain-English guide to getting SPF, DKIM, and DMARC live before a bounced email costs you a client.

May 12, 2026 Read More →
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Practical How-To

48% of IT Teams Worry About Missed Offboarding Steps. Here’s the n8n Workflow That Fixes It.

Most IT teams have an offboarding checklist. Most don’t complete it consistently. Here’s how to automate access revocation, M365 licence removal, and SaaS suspension so nothing slips after a departure.

May 8, 2026 Read More →
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Industry Analysis

41% of Global Code Is Now AI-Generated. Your Helpdesk Is About to Feel It.

Vibe coding and AI code generation are flooding helpdesks with a new class of ticket. Here’s what I’m seeing — and how IT support teams need to adapt.

May 5, 2026 Read More →
Tool Deep-Dive

Zapier vs n8n in 2026: The Cost Calculation I Actually Use

I run both tools in production. Here’s the real cost math, what each platform genuinely does better, and the three questions I ask before recommending one over the other.

May 1, 2026 Read More →
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Industry Analysis

When Your AI Support Agent Gets It Wrong: Escalation Logic and Guardrails That Actually Work

Agentic AI is resolving tickets autonomously — and sometimes incorrectly. Here’s the governance layer, confidence thresholds, and escalation design that separate a safe deployment from an expensive mess.

April 28, 2026 Read More →
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IT Operations

Microsoft Made Everything ‘Copilot.’ Your Helpdesk Is About to Feel It.

The rebrand is a name change. The licensing confusion, new ticket types, and admin overhead it created are very real. Here’s what IT support teams are actually dealing with.

April 24, 2026 Read More →
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Career

From Attaché to ICT Officer: The 3 Years Nobody Saw

The unglamorous story behind climbing from ICT attaché to ICT Officer — the year of grunt work, the decisions that compounded, and what I’d undo.

April 24, 2026 Read More →
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Career

Why I Don’t Chase Developer Jobs (And Neither Should Most CS Grads)

Most CS grads fight for a narrow slice of the tech job market. The wider world of IT support, ops, automation, and CX pays well, hires faster, and compounds quickly.

April 22, 2026 Read More →
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Career

Your First 100 Days in a New IT Role: A Practical Playbook

A week-by-week guide to the first 100 days in a new IT or ops role — who to meet, what to document, what to improve, and what to leave alone.

April 20, 2026 Read More →
Automation

The 3-Hour n8n Build That Gave My Team Back 12 Hours Every Week

One n8n workflow eliminated manual customer data entry, gave the team back 12+ hours weekly, and pushed efficiency up 35%. Here’s the full build, node by node.

April 17, 2026 Read More →
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IT Infrastructure

No Central IT Policy, 31 Counties, 300 Staff: What NGO Infrastructure Taught Me

Lessons from rebuilding IT at a 300-person NGO across East Africa — policy before tools, Active Directory design, offline-first thinking, and field champions.

April 15, 2026 Read More →
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Career

From Eldoret to Global SaaS: The Career Path I Wish Someone Had Drawn for Me

Five lessons from building a global tech career from Kenya — why certifications open doors a degree doesn’t, what remote work demands, and why your geography is an asset.

April 13, 2026 Read More →
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Customer Support

First-Contact Resolution: Why It’s the Only Support Metric That Matters

Forget CSAT, NPS, and response time. If you’re not measuring FCR, you’re optimizing for the wrong thing. Here’s why — and how to hit 95%+.

April 12, 2026 Read More →
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Customer Support

Customer Support Best Practices That Actually Work

After 5+ years and 1,000+ tickets, here are the practices that consistently drive 95%+ first-contact resolution and keep customers coming back.

April 11, 2026 Read More →
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Customer Support

Response Time vs. Resolution Time — Which One Actually Matters?

The industry is obsessed with fast replies. But a 2-minute “let me check” is worse than a 15-minute answer that solves everything.

April 10, 2026 Read More →
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Operations

Internal Playbooks: The Secret Weapon of Great Support Teams

Not a knowledge base — a playbook. The “how we handle X” doc that turns new agents into experts in days instead of weeks.

April 9, 2026 Read More →
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Automation

How n8n Workflows Made Our Support Team 3x More Efficient

A real-world walkthrough of the n8n automations I built to handle ticket routing, AI-drafted responses, and escalation — cutting response times in half.

April 8, 2026 Read More →
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Leadership

Support for Non-Support Teams: Teaching Everyone to Help

Support shouldn’t be siloed. How to guide users without blame, build feedback loops, and create a culture where everyone owns the customer experience.

April 7, 2026 Read More →
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Technology

IT Is Changing the World — And Here’s How I’ve Seen It Firsthand

From supporting 200+ staff at a Kenyan NGO to building AI-powered workflows for US SaaS companies — how IT bridges gaps and transforms lives.

April 5, 2026 Read More →
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Strategy

90% of Support Issues Are Preventable — Here’s How

The best support ticket is the one that never gets created. A breakdown of why most issues are preventable and the systems that stop them upstream.

April 3, 2026 Read More →
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Automation

CRM Automation Done Right: Lessons from Pipedrive & GoHighLevel

Most CRMs are used as address books. Here’s how to turn Pipedrive and GHL into automation engines — with lead scoring, sequences, and real results.

April 1, 2026 Read More →
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Outreach

Cold Outreach That Actually Gets Replies: My Full Stack Breakdown

Clay for enrichment, Apollo for contacts, Instantly.ai for sending, Pipedrive for CRM. The full stack that grew our pipeline by 40%.

March 28, 2026 Read More →
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AI & Automation

AI in Customer Support: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Next

The hype vs reality of AI in support. What Claude and ChatGPT actually do well, what still needs a human, and the “AI drafts, human sends” model.

March 25, 2026 Read More →
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IT Support

Remote IT Support Across Borders: What I Learned Supporting 30+ Branches

Unreliable internet, varied tech literacy, and no on-site presence. How I supported 200+ users across East Africa with M365, VPNs, and local IT champions.

March 22, 2026 Read More →