Hex Explained
The Hex Explained brings this topic into one place so the full arc is easy to follow. Start anywhere, or move through the pieces in order to build a cleaner read on hex explained. The Series The Hex Constraint: What It Is and Why It ExistsCustomclankerMCP for Normal People: What
Hex Explained
Most people who build a hex think they're building a productivity system. They're not. They're building a business asset — the kind that compounds, that differentiates, and that can be sold as a service. When your hex is dialed in, you can deliver repeatable work
Hex Explained
Your hex is not a tattoo. The tools that fill your six slots in March may not be the right tools in June. Software improves. New connectors ship. Your work changes. The hex constraint isn't about locking yourself into a permanent configuration — it's about having a
Hex Explained
You've heard someone describe their "tech stack" at least fifty times. At a networking event, on a podcast, in a Twitter bio. "My stack is Claude, Notion, Zapier, Midjourney, Ghost, and Loom." They list the tools like trading cards — each one a signal of
Hex Explained
You've read the framework. You understand the six slots. You get why constraints work. Now the question is whether you'll actually build the thing or whether this becomes another PDF in your Downloads folder next to the other frameworks that were going to change everything. This
Hex Explained
The hex has six slots. Not five, not eight — six. The previous articles in this series covered why the number matters and what the psychological research says about constraints. This article gets practical. What does each slot represent, what kind of tool fills it, and how do you decide which
Hex Explained
You have more AI tools available to you right now than any human has ever had. More options, more integrations, more things that promise to automate the tedious parts of your week. And yet — if you're honest about it — you shipped more when you had fewer options. That&
Hex Explained
Model Context Protocol is how Claude connects to your actual tools — your email, your calendar, your files, your databases — instead of just chatting about them. If you've been hearing "MCP" in every AI conversation for the past year and still don't know what it
Hex Explained
The hex is a constraint framework for building AI workflows. Six skills, six commands, one config. It maps directly to how Anthropic's Model Context Protocol architecture actually works — not as a metaphor, but as a design spec. The hex exists because the problem was never "which AI