Field Notes

AI automation, custom apps, case studies and news from the Coldabry studio.

13 articles · updated Jun 20
May 28

How We Ship Custom Apps in Weeks, Not Months

The actual process we use to take a custom app from idea to production in weeks: tight discovery, agent-assisted build, and a deploy you can trust.

Playbooks #custom-apps#process#shipping
May 26

AI Automation That Pays: Picking Wins With Real ROI

Not every process is worth automating. Here is how we pick automations with real payback, measure the return, and avoid expensive AI theater.

AI Automation #ai-automation#roi#ops
May 22

Case Study: An AI Support Agent That Cut Tickets 80%

How we built a support AI agent for a growing SaaS team, shipped it in three weeks, and removed most of their repetitive ticket volume without losing trust.

Case Studies #case-study#support#ai-agents
May 19

Build vs Buy: When a Custom App Beats Off-the-Shelf

A practical framework for deciding when to build a custom app versus buy SaaS, with a clear comparison table and the questions that actually decide it.

Custom Apps #custom-apps#build-vs-buy#saas
May 14

Agentic Workflows: Replace Internal Tools and Manual Ops

How agentic workflows replace brittle internal tools and manual ops work, with the architecture, guardrails, and tradeoffs that make them safe in production.

AI Automation #agentic-workflows#internal-tools#ai-automation
May 9

Case Study: How We Built Seovane, an MCP-Native Organic-Growth Engine

How we built Seovane: an MCP server you connect to your AI, giving it the full organic-growth toolkit, content and publishing across Google, AI answers and Reddit, so the AI brings you customers.

Case Studies #case-study#saas#seo
Apr 14

Case Study: How We Built instaoutreach, an Anti-Ban Instagram Outreach Engine

How we built instaoutreach: a multi-tenant Instagram outreach engine where anti-ban is the architecture, one account to one proxy to one fingerprint, warmed before a single DM, engaging before it ever asks.

Case Studies #case-study#saas#automation
Mar 26

Case Study: How We Built ImmoCRM, a Lead Engine for Estate Agencies

How we built ImmoCRM: a multi-tenant platform that captures an estate agency's Meta leads in seconds, auto-routes them to the right agent, and even generates its own leads with an automated property-valuation engine.

Case Studies #case-study#saas#crm
Feb 17

Case Study: A Patient-Acquisition Engine for Aesthetic Clinics

How we built Palyri: a multi-tenant platform that captures a clinic's leads the instant they arrive, routes them to the right person, and runs the whole appointment pipeline, from ad click to treatment, in one system.

Case Studies #case-study#saas#crm
Jan 23

Case Study: A Vector Knowledge Base and AI Chat for a Skincare Brand

How we built a grounded AI assistant for a premium skincare brand: a vector knowledge base that turns the brand's own content into semantic search, so every answer comes from verified sources, with citations.

Case Studies #case-study#ai-agents#rag