Insights on intelligent automation.
Strategy, implementation, and lessons from building AI workflows for modern businesses.
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Pricing AI in Barrels: Why We Denominate Tokens in Energy
Jeff Bernard
Founder & Automation Architect
Mar 17, 2026
How We're Using Reinforcement Learning Principles to Build Better Oil & Gas Tools
PatchOps is building a connector eval system that applies the same task-and-verify loop behind modern AI training to continuously improve the quality of our MCP tools for the energy industry.
Jeff Bernard
Founder & Automation Architect
Paylocity to Active Directory: Automating Employee Lifecycle Sync for Mark-Taylor Residential
How we built an automated employee lifecycle system that bridges Paylocity HR data with both cloud and on-premises identity infrastructure, eliminating manual IT overhead and notification noise.
Jeff Bernard
Founder & Automation Architect
How We Made Keyframe Editing Feel Like Moving a Camera
We replaced nine property tracks and manual number entry with a visual framing overlay that lets you drag a rectangle on the video preview to control zoom and pan keyframes.
Martin Rodriguez
Fullstack Developer
How We Replaced Hardcoded Video Templates with AI-Generated Layouts
We had 48 hardcoded Remotion templates that made every client's video look the same. Here's how we replaced them with an AI-driven scene description language that treats layout as data — and never wrote another template again.
Martin Rodriguez
Fullstack Developer
How We Cut Token Consumption by 98% Moving from Tool Calling to Code Execution
Every MCP tool call was flooding our context window with raw JSON. By shifting to server-side code execution, we reduced token consumption by 95-99% across our energy industry API integrations.
Jeff Bernard
Founder & Automation Architect
How We Automated 200+ Daily Tasks for an Oil & Gas Company
From 40+ manual spreadsheets to intelligent automation. A case study in systematic workflow transformation.
Jeff Bernard
Founder & Automation Architect
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