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Sadra Raadfar
Writing

Notes on automation, AI and business systems.

Short, practical pieces about how these systems are designed — and the parts that only show up once something goes wrong.

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28 Jul 2026Automation

Idempotency is the feature you forgot to build

Why every automated workflow needs merge keys before it needs retries, and a practical pattern for designing them.

7 min read
14 Jul 2026AI

Ask the model for a schema, not a paragraph

How constraining LLM responses to a strict schema makes AI steps testable, cheap to validate and safe to fall back from.

6 min read
30 Jun 2026Business Systems

Automate the process, not the chaos

Why process mapping before tooling saves more time than the automation itself, with a short mapping method.

5 min read
11 Jun 2026Marketing Automation

Lead scoring that survives contact with sales

Designing lead scoring rules that sales actually acts on: explicit inputs, decay, and visible reasoning.

6 min read
22 May 2026Notes

Where I still put a human in the loop

A short list of the places where I deliberately keep manual approval inside an automated workflow.

3 min read