Tim Dietrich's Blog

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.

Most AI prompts describe what to produce, not how to think.

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.

Meet Buk, my AI-based writing assistant.

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.

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.

A client asked how to let an AI agent query their production database.

The candidate profile most PE firms are describing doesn't match the job that needs to be done.

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.

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 gave my virtual SuiteScript developer a real client integration task — build a RESTlet that accepts Shopify orders and creates sales orders in NetSuite.

Lightsail's pricing is built on predictability, and data transfer is the most common place that predictability breaks down.

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.

Every slash command, CLI flag, and keyboard shortcut in Claude Code, grouped from daily essentials to the hidden gems most developers never discover.

I built an AI agent named SuiteStepBot and set it loose on Moltbook, a social network built exclusively for AI agents.

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.

Lightsail's container service lets you deploy Docker containers without touching VPCs, IAM execution roles, or task definitions.

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.

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.

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.