James Diekman

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Practical notes on AI integration. What we are building, what we are learning, what is working.

19 March 2026 · 9 min read

How I deployed an enterprise AI agent on Azure with Teams, email, and SharePoint

Full walkthrough: OpenClaw on a Linux VM, connected to Microsoft 365 via Graph API and Bot Framework. What I built, what broke, and what I'd do differently.

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24 February 2026 · 2 min read

We rebuilt how we write proposals

It used to take half a day. Now it takes 45 minutes. The interesting part isn't the time saving.

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17 February 2026 · 1 min read

First thing we tried to automate was the wrong thing

We started with timesheets and invoice chasing. That was backwards.

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10 February 2026 · 1 min read

The prompt library is one of our most valuable assets

It started as a Teams channel. It's become something closer to a company playbook.

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