I’m Paulo Da Silva. Former international-level athlete, software engineer, and founder of Clearing Bars. Field notes are the writing arm of the practice. It’s where I work out, in long-form, what I’m learning as I help Australian businesses adopt AI without the imported tools that fail compliance and without the consulting fees that price out the operators who actually need the help.
Field notes is built on a single belief: that Australia’s AI adoption gap closes industry by industry, not horizontally. Generic AI doesn’t translate. The translation has to be done by someone willing to sit in one industry long enough to build a system that fits how operators actually run their day. So that’s what I write about. The specifics. What’s working. What’s quietly costing operators money? What the imported playbooks miss is when they hit Australian compliance and Australian customer expectations. Currently, the work is focused on allied health clinics, the first industry I’m translating. Future essays will follow the work into whichever industry comes next.
If you run a business, sit in one, or just want a considered read on where AI is actually landing in Australia, this is for you. Expect long-form pieces, roughly fortnightly. No hot takes. No clickbait. No thirty-tweet threads dressed up as analysis. Just the work, written down. The kind of writing I wish I’d had access to when I was first trying to figure out what was real and what was noise. Welcome in.
