# Field notes from *the work.*

Short essays from inside Orfloat engagements — on Claude, on forward deployment, and on what closing the capability overhang actually looks like at the scale of a Muscat business. New entries publish here when the thinking is ready, not when the calendar says.

## The Archive — 2026, Vol. 01

## Anthropic's enterprise playbook, read from Muscat.

Reading · 24 May 2026 · 8 min read

Anthropic published a 35-page enterprise guide called Building trusted AI in the enterprise. We read it end-to-end. The short version: its four-stage spine maps almost exactly onto the engagement model Orfloat already sells. The longer version is what the playbook leaves out — and what a Muscat operator needs to add to make it land.

[Read in full](https://www.orfloat.com/notes/anthropic-enterprise-playbook)

## AI is not a software business anymore.

Briefing · 24 May 2026 · 9 min read

Microsoft is spending $190 billion on capital expenditure in 2026 and still expects to run short on capacity. The four biggest hyperscalers will spend close to $700 billion combined this year — roughly 3.5× what they spent two years ago. Your AI vendor agreement is a supply contract in everything but name.

[Read in full](https://www.orfloat.com/notes/ai-is-not-a-software-business)

## The capability overhang is no longer theoretical.

Field note · 22 May 2026 · 6 min read

Claude Opus 4.7 shipped six weeks ago. Anthropic's largest user study so far went out two months before that. The frontier is moving faster than most boards have agendas for — and almost none of that movement has reached operating businesses in the GCC.

[Read in full](https://www.orfloat.com/notes/capability-overhang)

## Model Context Protocol, plainly explained.

Primer · 19 May 2026 · 7 min read

MCP is the boring-sounding standard that makes the rest of Anthropic's stack non-boring. If your business runs on a POS, an ERP, an inventory spreadsheet, and a calendar — this is the layer that finally lets Claude reason over all of them at once, without each integration becoming a special case.

[Read in full](https://www.orfloat.com/notes/mcp-plainly-explained)

## Drafts — forthcoming

The entries below are visible on the human-facing `/notes` page as "In draft" cards. They do not yet have published `/notes/<slug>` URLs — do not attempt to fetch them. They are listed here so the agent surface matches what human visitors see.

### What the typical 15-day Discovery actually looks like.
**In draft · Method**

A walkthrough of a typical on-site Discovery — who we sit with, what we measure, and what the deliverables read like on day fifteen. Publishing shortly.

### Capability overhang, Muscat edition (vol. 02).
**In draft · Region**

What we are learning from the first cohort of Omani operators who have stopped treating AI as a chatbot and started treating it as an operating layer.

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