Field Notes

Field notes for the people who run landscape.

Operator playbooks, deployed-AI walkthroughs, margin-leakage teardowns, and the occasional opinion. Built for the people running the field, the back office, and the business.

Operator Playbook
The 4 a.m. inbox: what happens when AI works overnight in a landscape business
Two operators at the same company. One walks in Tuesday morning with 14 unread alerts. The other walks in with 4 ranked decisions. The difference is whether your AI is shipping work between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Scott Hutcheon · May 27, 2026 · 8 min read
Live Build
Six primitives behind autonomous execution: what an AI agent actually needs to run a landscape business
AI vendors call everything an agent. Most aren't. Here's the architectural unbundling, six primitives an agent needs before you can trust it with real proposals, real schedules, and real money.
Scott Hutcheon · May 20, 2026 · 9 min read
Industry Teardown
The connection problem: why the landscape software stack is broken (and what an intelligence layer actually means)
Most commercial landscape companies run six to eight software systems. None of them speak the same language. The fix isn't more software, it's an intelligence layer underneath.
Scott Hutcheon · May 13, 2026 · 8 min read