# nz365guy

> Mark Smith is a Principal AI Strategist and Co-Founder at Cloverbase, a Microsoft consulting firm in New Zealand. Microsoft MVP since 2012, Microsoft Certified Trainer, co-author of "Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption" (Microsoft Press), host of The Intelligence Age Podcast (837+ episodes). He writes about Artificial Intelligence, Agents, Microsoft AI, and the Intelligence Age.

## Key pages

- [About Mark Smith](https://nz365guy.com/about): Bio, credentials, professional background
- [Blog](https://nz365guy.com/blog): 328 blog posts on Artificial Intelligence, Agents, Microsoft AI, and the Intelligence Age
- [Book](https://nz365guy.com/book): Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption by Mark Smith and [Meg Smith](https://www.megsmith.nz/) (Microsoft Press)
- [Podcast](https://nz365guy.com/podcast): The Intelligence Age Podcast, 837+ episodes
- [90 Day MC](https://nz365guy.com/90daymc): 90-day mentoring and capability programme
- [Contact](https://nz365guy.com/contact): Get in touch

## Blog categories

- [Microsoft Power Platform](https://nz365guy.com/category/microsoft%20power%20platform): 95 posts
- [Career Development & Mentoring](https://nz365guy.com/category/career%20development%20%26%20mentoring): 72 posts
- [Artificial Intelligence](https://nz365guy.com/category/artificial%20intelligence): 69 posts
- [Microsoft Partners](https://nz365guy.com/category/microsoft%20partners): 33 posts
- [Podcast](https://nz365guy.com/category/podcast): 32 posts
- [Digital Transformation Innovation](https://nz365guy.com/category/digital%20transformation%20innovation): 23 posts
- [Design Thinking & User Experience](https://nz365guy.com/category/design%20thinking%20%26%20user%20experience): 2 posts
- [Career Development](https://nz365guy.com/category/career%20development): 1 posts
- [Power Platform](https://nz365guy.com/category/power%20platform): 1 posts

## Recent posts

- [We made four websites agent-ready with WebMCP](https://nz365guy.com/blog/four-websites-agent-ready-webmcp): AI agents already visit our websites and interpret pages built for human eyes. This weekend, we gave all four sites a st
- [Why My AI DevOps Team Runs on a Ralph Loop](https://nz365guy.com/blog/why-my-ai-devops-team-runs-on-a-ralph-loop): My AI DevOps board looked frozen for twelve hours. The fix was not smarter orchestration, but a Ralph loop with real har
- [Building Sandy: a read-aloud tool for how I work](https://nz365guy.com/blog/building-sandy-read-aloud-tool): Sandy is a Windows 11 read-aloud app I built for dyslexia support, with Azure AI Speech, sentence-level playback, and cl
- [I replaced my CRM in a single afternoon](https://nz365guy.com/blog/replaced-crm-single-afternoon): After 23 years working with enterprise CRM platforms, I built a custom AI-native replacement in a single afternoon. Here
- [AI skills plan for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform consultants](https://nz365guy.com/blog/ai-skills-plan-dynamics-power-platform): Dynamics 365 and Power Platform consultants need AI skills they can prove, not just tool familiarity. This 365-day plan 
- [Building an org directory for AI agents on OpenCLAW](https://nz365guy.com/blog/building-org-directory-ai-agents-openclaw): AI agents in multi-agent systems do not know who each other are. Here is how to build an org directory that gives every 
- [What Dynamics 365 partners should do when project work dries up](https://nz365guy.com/blog/dynamics-partners-should-project-work-dries): Dynamics 365 and Power Platform partner practices seeing slower demand need a reset towards workflow accountability, gov
- [Building a DevOps team from AI agents on OpenCLAW](https://nz365guy.com/blog/building-devops-team-ai-agents-openclaw): Ten AI agents, each owning a phase of the DevOps infinity loop, coordinated by an engineering-manager agent. How I built
- [Hardening OpenCLAW on Azure after a live audit](https://nz365guy.com/blog/hardening-openclaw-azure-live-audit): A live audit of my OpenCLAW Azure VM found two critical gaps: no Azure-native VM backup and no Azure Monitor Agent. Here
- [The Microsoft Innovation Podcast: A Nine-Year Wrap](https://nz365guy.com/blog/microsoft-innovation-podcast-nine-year-wrap): After 836 episodes across seven shows and nearly a decade, I'm wrapping up the Microsoft Innovation Podcast. Here's what
- [I found 268 plaintext secrets in my AI stack](https://nz365guy.com/blog/plaintext-secrets-ai-stack): Six weeks ago a security audit told me I had 268 plaintext secrets scattered across my AI agent platform. This week I cl
- [Can I Build This? The Question That Saved Me $10,000 a Year in SaaS Subscriptions](https://nz365guy.com/blog/can-i-build-this-with-ai): A Speechify renewal email made me question every subscription my business pays for. Since January 2026, I have eliminate
- [44 Safety Rules, 58 Commands, and Microsoft Loop's Missing API - Building Enterprise AI Agent Governance](https://nz365guy.com/blog/ai-agent-governance-microsoft-loop-problem): cb365 adds 28 new commands across four workloads with a governance framework inspired by real enterprise AI policy. Thre
- [Connecting AI Agents to Microsoft Planner: ETags, Group Permissions, and the Graph API's Opinions](https://nz365guy.com/blog/connecting-ai-agents-to-microsoft-planner): Microsoft Planner's API enforces optimistic concurrency with ETags, requires Group membership for plan creation, and use
- [23 Safety Rules I Built Into a Microsoft 365 CLI for AI Agents](https://nz365guy.com/blog/safety-rules-microsoft-365-cli): How I built 23 hardcoded safety rules into cb365, a Microsoft 365 CLI, to prevent data loss and unauthorised actions whe
- [Shipping a Microsoft 365 CLI: Signed Binaries, SBOMs, and the Bug That Hid for Four Months](https://nz365guy.com/blog/shipping-microsoft-365-cli-public-release): Taking cb365 from internal tool to public release meant solving the trust problem: signed binaries, Software Bill of Mat
- [Why I'm Building My Own Microsoft 365 CLI for AI Agents](https://nz365guy.com/blog/why-i-built-my-own-microsoft-365-cli): Microsoft retired their Graph CLI. PowerShell is the official answer. But AI agents don't speak PowerShell. Here's why I
- [My AI Agent Now Manages My Microsoft To Do - Here's What Actually Happened](https://nz365guy.com/blog/ai-agent-manages-microsoft-todo): I designed a Microsoft 365 CLI for AI agents. Then I built it. The Graph API had opinions about my architecture. Here's 
- [AI Agents Getting the Date Wrong? Timezone Configuration in OpenCLAW](https://nz365guy.com/blog/ai-agents-timezone-configuration-openclaw): AI agents have no internal clock. When they run on UTC servers but you're hours ahead, they get dates wrong. Here's a 4-
- [Why I Built My Own Model Routing Engine](https://nz365guy.com/blog/model-routing-intelligence): How I replaced static model assignments with an autonomous routing engine, shadow testing pipeline, and live dashboard f

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