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Why Enterprise Systems Still Win — And Where AI Starts to Shift the Balance
Ciprian Nafornita7 min readAge, incumbency, and a thick compliance binder are not substitutes for verified resilience.
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BBF · Edition 09Edition 09
Why Enterprise Systems Still Win — And Where AI Starts to Shift the Balance
Age, incumbency, and a thick compliance binder are not substitutes for verified resilience.
BBF · Edition 08Edition 08Workflows / Operations
The “Patient Zero” of messy workflows
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BBF · Edition 07Edition 07Building in Public / Career
When You Start Playing by Someone’s Rules, You End Up Creating Your Own.
A few months ago, I joined LinkedIn with a simple goal: look around the job market and find a job in AI.
BBF · Edition 06Edition 06Building in Public / Product
I Wasn’t Ready to Share It. But Here I Am.
There were still things I wanted to improve. Things I wanted to polish. Things I thought needed to be “just a little bit better” before putting it in front of people.
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Edition 05AI / Tools
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For the past couple of months, I've been deep in AI. Not because my job demanded it. Not because someone told me it's the future. But because suddenly, I can do things that were never reachable before.
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Their DMs Became Deals. Mine Became Drafts.
Edition 03Personal Brand / LinkedIn
Their DMs Became Deals. Mine Became Drafts.
There's a stage almost everyone on LinkedIn goes through: watching other people message, collaborate, and jump on calls together, and quietly thinking, "That's not really me..."
Everyone’s Hiring AI Specialists. But What Happens When You Empower Your Operators?
Edition 02AI / Operations
Everyone’s Hiring AI Specialists. But What Happens When You Empower Your Operators?
But here’s the tension nobody wants to say out loud: Most organisations don’t actually know what an “AI specialist” is supposed to do.
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Ciprian Nafornita
Operator-founder behind SIMPLionEX and the SafeTrack fire drill app. Ciprian came up through operations — loud offices, shifting priorities, constant fires — and now uses AI to turn shop-floor problems into products. BBF is where he builds in public and spotlights other builders.
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