Stack | Ten Thirty Co

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AI models

The brains. I bounce between these depending on the work.

Claude

Best for: serious thinking, ops analysis, writing, agentic work.

My daily driver. Best reasoning on the market in 2026, especially for ambiguous business problems where the answer isn't in the data yet.

ChatGPT

Best for: quick lookups, image gen, voice mode while driving.

Still has the best image gen out of the box and voice mode is genuinely useful. I keep it open for fast questions.

Grok

Best for: real-time research, current-events lookups, unfiltered takes.

Live X data baked in, less hedging than the others. When I need a quick read on what's happening right now, it's faster than opening a search tab.

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AI coding & dev

How I build internal tools, agents, and one-off automations without a full eng team.

Claude Code

Best for: agentic coding from a CLI. Internal tools, automations, scripts.

The single biggest leverage I've added in years. Lets a non-engineer ship real software. This site was built with it.

Cursor

Best for: in-editor pair programming on real codebases.

When the work is structured and lives in a git repo, Cursor is faster than CLI. Cmd+K is the killer feature.

Lovable

Best for: prototype to shareable URL in minutes.

When I need to put something visual in front of a client before the next call. Disposable but extremely fast.

/ 03

Agents & automation

For ops that need to run without me. Most client builds end up here.

Claude Agent SDK

Best for: building custom agents for client ops.

The right primitive for serious agent work. Most of the AI builds I ship for clients run on this.

Make

Best for: visual automation, internal pipelines, glue between SaaS.

The visual workflow builder I default to. Branchy logic, every integration that matters, and the team can read the flow without me there.

Zapier

Best for: simple triggers between SaaS apps when Make is overkill.

The old reliable. When a client already has it set up and the workflow is small, leave it alone.

/ 04

Ops & project management

Where the work and the team coordination actually live.

Notion

Best for: docs, wikis, lightweight project tracking.

Every client lives here. Universal. The right place for SOPs, meeting notes, and the working docs of an engagement.

Linear

Best for: serious project tracking for product and ops teams.

Faster than anything else, AI-native, opinionated in a good way. The right call when a team is ready for real structure.

Airtable

Best for: structured data with views. Trackers, pipelines, content calendars.

Better than a spreadsheet, lighter than a database. Where most of the working data of an engagement actually lives.

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ERP & systems

The big platforms I've designed and rolled out. End-to-end: R&D, design, change management, go-live.

NetSuite

Best for: mid-market companies that need financials, inventory, and ops in one system.

The default ERP for growth-stage companies. Cloud-native, fast to deploy, deep ecosystem. Most of my recent ERP work lives here.

SAP

Best for: enterprise rollouts and multi-entity consolidation.

When the company is too big or too distributed for NetSuite. Heavier lift, more capability, longer cycle.

Workday

Best for: HR, payroll, and people ops at scale.

When the people side of the business needs the same rigor as the financial side. Pairs well with NetSuite for full ops coverage.

Custom ERPs

Best for: businesses with workflows the off-the-shelf systems can't bend around.

When the business runs on enough niche logic that a custom build is faster and cheaper long-term than wrestling a packaged ERP into shape. Morehands was a full rebuild.

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Comms

How I run the engagement day to day.

Slack

Best for: client comms during engagements.

If a client wants to run an engagement on email, the engagement is already in trouble. Shared Slack channel, day one.

Loom

Best for: async video updates, walkthroughs, kill-the-meeting moments.