Field notes · 01
The five silent killers of paced media
Underpacing, overspend, invalid traffic, CPA drift, creative fatigue — the exact signals our copilot watches, so you can steal the checklist.
2026-07-02 · 6 min
Field notes
Running paced media, written down
What we learn building ArcOps — the failure modes of in-flight campaigns, and what it takes to let software act on them accountably.
Field notes · 02
6 DSP tabs is not a control tower
Dashboards report; control towers decide. What changes when the unit of work is a decision instead of a number.
2026-07-02 · 4 min
Field notes · 03
AI that can't touch your budget without a paper trail
The copilot proposes; you dispose. Why an approval rail with immutable decision records beats a smarter black box.
2026-07-02 · 5 min
Field notes · 04
Your connector didn't break. The API under it was retired.
A bare HTML 404 that impersonated a credentials problem, a fix that was a deletion, and the checklist we ship so version rot self-diagnoses.
2026-07-10 · 6 min
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