John Elmore · Pixel Pantry

AI deployment for people running real businesses.

I write and make videos about how to actually use AI in a working company. The frameworks come from a manufacturing business I co-founded and seven years of building production systems myself.

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First issue ships soon. No spam, no AI hype, no recycled Twitter threads.

Most AI content is sales pitches dressed up as education.

Someone with a vested interest in AI being capable of everything tells you AI is capable of everything. You try it in your business and most of it does not work.

That is the gap this site exists to close.

I run AI systems in production at a manufacturing business I co-founded. I have evaluated more than three dozen AI tools and deployed one. I have built autonomous agents, local inference stacks, and the operational frameworks that let me decide what AI should and should not do in a real company. I write about all of it.

The audience is mid-market founders and CEOs with real teams, real customers, and not enough time to wade through hype to find the parts that actually work.

If that is you, you are in the right place.

Three things to do on this site.

Read

Long-form writing on AI in real businesses. Frameworks, deployment patterns, what I have actually built and what I have cut.

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Watch

Weekly videos breaking down how AI performs against real business problems. Plus build logs from a narrative game I am making as the hardest possible test of AI capability.

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