Dennis Chiuten

Dennis Chiuten

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Why Notion Workers + Dashboards are my New BI Stack

May 21, 2026

After Notion's developer platform launch, Workers and Dashboards make a credible BI stack for most small teams. Why it's now my default recommendation, and where the warehouse-plus-Tableau setup still has the edge.

How Claude Cowork Does My Job While I Walk the Kids to School

Apr 21, 2026

Five layers — files, plugins, sub-agents, memory, and scheduled tasks — that turn Claude Cowork from a chatbot into the coworker running ops before you've had coffee.

Your CRM's $2,500 Enrichment Feature Costs Me Half a Cent Per Contact

Apr 14, 2026

We built a contact enrichment pipeline for our Notion CRM using Apollo.io, HarvestAPI via Apify, and Zapier — for roughly $0–5/month. Here's the full architecture, the cost breakdown, and why CRM vendors charging $2–3K/year for the same capability is a broken model.

What I Learned Optimising a Multi-Turn AI Agent (the Hard Way)

Apr 6, 2026

Lessons from building multi-turn AI agents across Zapier Agents, Notion Custom Agents, and Relevance AI — covering context window management, system prompt bloat, sub-agent trade-offs, and context rot.

Skills > Prompts: How I Teach AI to Work My Way

Mar 25, 2026

How reusable AI skills across Claude, Notion, and Linear have replaced prompt engineering as the highest-leverage way to make AI tools actually useful.

What If Your CRM Worked the Way You Do?

Mar 10, 2026

We built a custom CRM in Notion — powered by 30+ Zapier automations, AI agents, and deep integrations — that tracks contacts, emails, meetings, deals, invoices, and leads automatically. Here's the full architecture.

The Future of Work Isn't (Fully) Agentic

Mar 4, 2026

When Meta's AI safety director lost 200 emails to a runaway agent, it wasn't a hack — it was context window compaction silently dropping her safety instruction. Here's why the future of automation is selectively agentic, and how to combine AI judgement with deterministic guardrails that actually hold.

Notion Custom Agents vs Zapier Agents: Which AI Agent Platform Should You Use?

Feb 23, 2026

Notion Custom Agents and Zapier Agents take fundamentally different approaches to AI automation. Here's where each one wins — and where it falls short.

How I Built a Content System That Doesn't Sound Like AI Slop

Feb 18, 2026

How I built a content system using Notion, Zapier, Readwise, and AI agents that produces original writing at scale — without sounding like everyone else.

5 Notion Custom Agents Use Cases to Automate Your Workspace

Feb 2, 2026

Five practical Notion Custom Agent use cases we've been building—from automated meeting prep to turning Slack chaos into trackable tasks.

Why I Switched from ChatGPT to Claude (and Haven't Looked Back)

Jan 19, 2026

Skills that invoke themselves, integrations that write back to your tools, and code that works on the first attempt. Why I haven't looked back since switching to Claude.

How to Never Lose a Meeting Action Item Again

Dec 15, 2025

One click after a meeting. Every task lands where it belongs. No manual sorting or copying and pasting required.