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JSJames Sandersonintechcirkle.hashnode.dev·Jul 16 · 7 min readHow to Sequence an EHR Build: A Roadmap That ShipsMost electronic health record projects do not fail because the team lacked skill. They fail because the work was done in the wrong order. Teams build breadth before depth, defer interoperability until00
JSJames Sandersonintechcirkle.hashnode.dev·Jul 15 · 7 min readBehavioural Buyer Personas: Building Them From Real Signals, Not WorkshopsMost buyer personas fail for the same reason a hardcoded config fails: they capture a snapshot of an assumption and never update. A team spends an afternoon inventing "IT Ian," assigns a stock photo a00
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JSJames Sandersonintechcirkle.hashnode.dev·Jul 15 · 19 min readAI Agent Adoption Statistics 2026 AI agents — software that can plan, decide, and act with limited human supervision — moved from pilot projects to boardroom priority faster than almost any enterprise technology before them. In 2025, 00