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Useful ideas for building what comes next.

Think it through. Try something useful.

I am Kyle Dickinson. I explore how people build, decide, and put AI to useful work. Whether you are trying it for the first time or making it part of everyday business, you will find ideas to consider and practices to test.

Find your next useful step Read the essays

Already using AI?

Explore what comes next.

  1. Go deeper / 01

    The first version works. Is it ready for everyday use?

    Separate the result you observed from the assumptions you still need to test.

    Try: Make the source and its limits explicit

  2. Go deeper / 02

    The drafts are useful. Can the people keep up?

    Look at evidence, attention, and authority before adding more output.

    Try: Design a meaningful review

New to AI? Start here

Where would you like to begin?

  1. Start here / 01

    I am curious, but I do not know where to begin.

    Leave with a small experiment and a way to judge it.

    Try: Choose one job worth trying

  2. Start here / 02

    I have tried AI, but the results need too much fixing.

    Improve the draft and count the effort it takes to make it useful.

    Try: Make a better request

  3. Start here / 03

    I am unsure which tool belongs in my work.

    Define the job before choosing what to use.

    Try: Compare tools around a real task

From Kyle / Your guide

Business experience. Practical AI guidance.

I am Kyle Dickinson. I spent four years as a business advisor at the Entrepreneur Fund, working alongside nearly two hundred owners across northern Minnesota and Wisconsin as they started, grew, and handed off what they built.

Today I use AI in the businesses I help run. In retail purchasing, for example, a system I built helps prepare orders from what is selling and what is in stock. A person decides what to buy.

Fieldcraft brings that advising and operating experience to your organization, from choosing a useful direction to helping your team put it into practice.

More about me

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An idea to try. People to try it with.

The Field Guide shares practical ways to work with AI. Community gatherings give you a place to meet people, compare notes, and try things together.

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Lake Effect AI Notes

Useful ideas for getting started, improving the work, and deciding what comes next. Written by Kyle, from the work. Free, by email.

Free to read. Easy to leave.

Ways to work together

Start where you need guidance.

01 Learn

Help your people put AI to use.

Learn
02 Build

Make room for what comes next.

Build
03 Decide

Choose where AI belongs.

Decide

You do not need to choose before we talk. See what working with Fieldcraft looks like.

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What would you like to make possible?

Choose a first application, improve something you already use, or work through what your team needs next. We will talk through your goals and a sensible next step.

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Thirty minutes. No charge.