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Notes on IT, MSP work, automation, and what it's like to do all of it from the road. Drafts get refined here, then mostly stay refined.

The CTO playbook for a small consulting practice

CLIMB IT Solutions, Inc., Manuel Bautista

The CTO playbook for a small consulting practice

I spent years as CIO at companies between 200 and 10,000 employees. Then I started a small consulting practice — and discovered that the playbook I'd used for the larger companies didn't translate. No...

CIO Strategy Tooling

25 may 2026

Odoo Enterprise as a small-business OS

CLIMB IT Solutions, Inc., Manuel Bautista

Odoo Enterprise as a small-business OS

Most small businesses I work with run on a stack of about a dozen unrelated SaaS products: a CRM, an accounting package, an invoicing tool, an HR tracker, a project management thing, a help-desk thing...

Odoo Tooling

25 may 2026

Why I rebuilt my whole assistant stack on AWS Bedrock

CLIMB IT Solutions, Inc., Manuel Bautista

Why I rebuilt my whole assistant stack on AWS Bedrock

For about a year I bounced between ChatGPT, Claude.ai, and the various AI features inside Cursor. They were all good. None of them were mine . That's the gap I built Betty — my agent on top of OpenCla...

AI Engineering

25 may 2026

Why I'm publishing here

CLIMB IT Solutions, Inc., Manuel Bautista

Why I'm publishing here

I've been working in IT for a long time and writing privately for most of them. This site is the part of that work I'm willing to put my name on in public. The professional bio lives on LinkedIn . The...

Meta

25 may 2026

Running a managed-services practice from an RV

CLIMB IT Solutions, Inc., Manuel Bautista

Running a managed-services practice from an RV

Managed services has a built-in assumption: the people doing the work are sitting in an office. The runbooks assume two backup ISPs. The compliance frameworks assume a known physical location. The on-...

MSP Operations Travel

25 may 2026