Sully
Our thinking

How we think about the work.

A short shelf of essays, not a feed. Some of it is why we're building Sully. Some of it is what AI is actually good for in a firm that signs its work — written for practices where the closest thing to an AI strategy is someone pasting notes into a chat window. Read them as working beliefs, not settled fact: each one says what we think and why, so when you ask where we stand on a question, one of these pages is usually the answer we send back.

01

Why we're building Sully

The expertise is in the walk. The hours go to the write-up. We think that is the wrong way around.

Jimmy Horan · 2 min read

02

The scribe pattern

Clinicians handed the note-taking to AI first. Our bet is that the same shape fits every profession that documents for a living — tuned to each.

Jimmy Horan · 3 min read

03

The narration is the walk

A walkthrough is footage plus the words said while shooting it. Read one without the other and you miss what the walk meant.

Jimmy Horan · 2 min read

04

Draft, not sign-ready

The most useful thing AI can hand a professional isn't a finished report. It's a draft that shows its working.

Jimmy Horan · 2 min read

05

The site record appreciates

Most files are worth the most the day they're made. A site record is the opposite.

Jimmy Horan · 2 min read

06

AI for firms that sign their work

A plain-English take on bringing AI into a traditional practice — architecture, building consultancy, surveying — beyond throwing prompts at a chat window.

Jimmy Horan · 3 min read

More to come — this shelf grows slowly, on purpose. If one of these lands, the fastest way to test it is a real walk: bring us your next one.