Field Notes

Working notes on automation you can actually check.

Not thought leadership. The methods we use, the numbers they produce, and the parts that did not work — written down so a client can hold us to them.

31 Aug 2026 How to audit an automation vendor before you sign Four questions that separate a working system from a good demo — and the four links to run every one of them on us first. Read the note

Everything published here follows one rule: a claim carries a method and a date, or it is not a claim. The same rule governs our own work — Saffron Designs publishes every performance score it measures, four runs per site, the worst of the four printed, including the sites that beat us.