<![CDATA[NC Tweener Times: [REDACTED] ]]>https://www.tweenertimes.com/s/redactedhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!d8rn!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fe6c638-bdc5-403c-bd71-18f0487929bd_1080x1080.pngNC Tweener Times: [REDACTED] https://www.tweenertimes.com/s/redactedSubstackSat, 13 Jun 2026 02:03:08 GMT<![CDATA[[REDACTED]: Episode 3: A Sentient HubSpot for $2 a Brand]]>https://www.tweenertimes.com/p/redacted-episode-3-a-sentient-hubspothttps://www.tweenertimes.com/p/redacted-episode-3-a-sentient-hubspotWed, 03 Jun 2026 14:31:06 GMT
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What’s Redacted?

[Redacted] is a YouTube-first, twice-monthly show where we:

  • Walk through what they actually shipped that week

  • Screen share real systems inside their business

  • Break down what worked, what didn’t, and why

Episode 3

In episode 3 of [REDACTED], we (David and Taylor) run a live demo of an agentic CRM-cleanup pipeline (and finds out, on air, what it costs). We also walk through a landing page workflow that compresses what used to take five people and a month of meetings into something one person can do in an afternoon.

The bulk of episode 3 is a live demo, just what we wanted. Plus, the best part of Redacted is that nothing is finished. Every episode is a midstream demo of something that might break, might cost more than it should, or might be the thing that quietly changes how a whole category of work gets done. Enjoy the conversation.

What We Cover

  • $1.98 to clean a brand: Taylor’s CRM pipeline ran live on air with one restaurant with two locations, 64 turns, 95% cache hit, total cost under two dollars.

  • The code-vs-agent slider: Taylor built an interactive slider with pros and cons on each side. Fully deterministic code can’t handle ambiguity, fully agentic can’t be tested or priced.

  • The “no brand graph” problem: There is no canonical source of truth for the restaurant industry. Google Places, SERP, and Yelp all return ranked top-20s — you can’t reconstruct the full graph locally. This is what makes the cleanup problem agentic by necessity.

  • n8n’s flowers, n8n’s thorns: Taylor’s running joke is that every local agent he builds eventually looks like n8n. But debugging n8n at scale meant pulling down a million-token JSON dump every morning just to grep it. Local won on debuggability, not capability.

  • Confidence tiers for copy extraction: “Act on it” = recurring in 6+ meetings. “Pattern” = 4–5. “Emerging” = 1–3. The model can suggest copy at any tier; the operator decides what gets shipped.

  • The headline no human wrote: “Get found by foodies who are paying to find you.” This sidesteps the #1 objection in the space (is this a free deals site?) in one line. David says no one on his team has produced anything like it in ten years of writing copy.

  • Claude Design as a brand harness: David came in skeptical that it was just a Claude Code wrapper. He left convinced: same model, but the design harness around it makes the outputs materially better.

  • 15–20 hours, one person: Total wall-clock on the landing page from raw transcripts to live wireframes. Historically the same work needed five people (founder, sales, copy, brand, design) and weeks of calendar time.

  • Skill folder structure: David’s pattern for non-trivial skills: a tiny top-level skill file that orchestrates, plus subfolders for context (inputs the skill ingests), data (outputs by run), and prompts (exposed so they can be QA’d independently).

How to watch:

It’s best viewed on YouTube to fully see the examples (make sure to subscribe!)

But also available on all audio podcast players through Tweener Talks!

PLUS we have a new spot for show notes and files discussed in the episode. Check cit out: https://github.com/instanttaylor/redacted-podcast

What’s Next?

New episodes drop twice a month/every other Wednesday. If you want to be on the show as a guest and show your [REDACTED] builds, email us here.

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