Understanding Simpson's Paradox
How Simpson's Paradox can make aggregate metrics tell the opposite story from what's actually happening at the segment level - and how to catch it before it misleads your decisions.
Tim Dietrich's Blog
Articles about NetSuite, SuiteQL, AI, and software development.
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Designing How AI Thinks: An Introduction to Cognitive Systems Design
Most AI prompts describe what to produce, not how to think. Cognitive Systems Design is the practice of architecting the reasoning structures, judgment frameworks, and behavioral constraints that enable AI to perform at expert level.
Improve Vendor Rebate Management With AI
How AI can transform vendor rebate management — from agreement ingestion and transaction matching to threshold optimization, reconciliation, and audit readiness — with working prompts you can adapt to your own data.
Yeah, We Use AI. So What.
Meet Buk, my AI-based writing assistant.
An AI Prompt That Does the Work of a $30K Operations Audit
A single AI prompt that replaces weeks of operations consulting with a structured discovery process and an interactive dashboard featuring scored automation opportunities, process maps, system architecture, and a phased implementation roadmap.
Before You Build an AI SQL Agent, Build the Safety Layer
A client asked how to let an AI agent query their production database. My answer started with the constraints, not the capability, because the safety architecture is the design.
What Private Equity Should Be Asking About AI During Diligence
The questions PE firms should be asking about AI during due diligence, a three-lens framework for evaluating AI's role in any acquisition, and a maturity model for assessing where a company stands.
Why Private Equity Firms Can't Find the Right Head of AI
The candidate profile most PE firms are describing doesn't match the job that needs to be done. Here's what gets missed without the technical voice, what gets missed without the financial voice, and three options that actually work.
I Had My AI Team Reverse-Engineer NetSuite's Strategy. Here's What They Found.
A strategic teardown of NetSuite's AI moves using Porter's Five Forces, Jobs-to-Be-Done, and Blue Ocean Strategy reveals a three-layer lock-in escalation designed to make NetSuite the indispensable operating substrate for midmarket business.
Oracle's AI Pivot Is Creating a 12-Month Window for NetSuite Partners
A competitive landscape analysis of the NetSuite services market reveals a 12-month window where partners who build AI-enabled capabilities will capture a disproportionate share of the next upgrade cycle.
I Assigned a NetSuite / Shopify Integration Project to My Virtual SuiteScript Developer. Here's What Happened.
I gave my virtual SuiteScript developer a real client integration task — build a RESTlet that accepts Shopify orders and creates sales orders in NetSuite. Here's a walkthrough of what it produced.
The Lightsail Data Transfer Overage Trap and How to Architect Around It
Lightsail's pricing is built on predictability, and data transfer is the most common place that predictability breaks down. Here's what creates the risk and how to mitigate it.
An AI Prompt That Thinks Like a Senior NetSuite Finance Consultant
A system prompt that turns AI into a senior NetSuite finance consultant — handling configuration, accounting guidance, process design, and troubleshooting with native-first recommendations and compliance awareness.
The Complete Developer's Guide to Claude Code Commands
Every slash command, CLI flag, and keyboard shortcut in Claude Code, grouped from daily essentials to the hidden gems most developers never discover.
Meet SuiteStepBot: A NetSuite and SuiteScript Expert Participating on Moltbook
I built an AI agent named SuiteStepBot and set it loose on Moltbook, a social network built exclusively for AI agents.
A Prompt That Turns Any AI Into a Senior SuiteScript Developer
I built a system prompt that transforms any major AI model into a production-ready SuiteScript developer — with governance awareness, security-first behavior, and native-first decision making.
Running Containers Without the Complexity: A Look at Lightsail Container Services
Lightsail's container service lets you deploy Docker containers without touching VPCs, IAM execution roles, or task definitions. Here's what it handles, where it has limits, and when it makes sense.
9 Prompts Aren't a Team. Here's What Made Them One.
How I turned nine independent prompts for website development into an orchestrated AI team — with a project manager agent, file-based communication, dependency mapping, and human checkpoints.
Time Dilation: How My Virtual AI Team Bends the Clock
How building a virtual team of 34 specialized AI agents creates a time dilation effect — compressing weeks of work into hours through parallelism, combinatorial workflows, and organizational compression.
The Newest Member of My AI Team Is a Loss Prevention Expert
How I used prompt engineering to build a credible, ethical AI loss prevention consultant — with structured reasoning, hard ethical guardrails, and graceful degradation — in a couple of hours.