AI, Technology, Transformation, and Inspiration

Writing about AI, technology and commercial growth: what worked, what failed, and what helped me move from pilot to production.

Nathan Petralia at HKU

Nathan Petralia

I have spent two decades leading digital and commercial programs across APAC. Today I build AI products and leverage AI across consulting, practice building, go-to-market, commercials, delivery governance, and operational leadership.

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One Agent, Many Workflows: What Cursor Customize Is For (Beyond Coding)

Best forAnyone who uses AI across study, business, and personal work and wants one customized agent interface instead of a pile of chat tabs

Cursor Customize is how you shape one agent for brainstorming, consulting, blogging, shipping, and life admin - then hand off between phone and desk without restarting from zero.

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Skills, Hooks, and Orchestration: Cursor Customize With an Obsidian Memory Loop

Best forReaders who already get work modes and want the Customize mechanics plus Obsidian/mobile handoff without a full wiring handbook

The deep dive on Cursor Customize mechanics that matter: skills, hooks, commands, subagents, MCPs - plus the Obsidian memory loop and mobile-to-desktop handoff.

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Cursor Customize for Local Develop and GitHub Shipping

Best forAnyone who occasionally ships code or config with AI and wants light review habits without a full developer handbook

A light Customize setup for directed local changes and GitHub shipping: review habits, small diffs, and handoffs - without turning this into another full harness handbook.

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Cursor Customize for Blogging and Project Memory

Best forWriters and operators who want AI help on drafts without losing voice, publish control, or session continuity

Customize Cursor for Petralian-style blogging and project memory: voice rules, draft folders as publish gates, and Bridge/session notes so work continues after the chat ends.

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Cursor Customize for Business Development: Questionnaire to Plan SSOT

Best forFounders, consultants, and operators who need AI-assisted proposals and plans that stay consistent across collaborators and drafts

For consulting and BD work, a shared questionnaire becomes the single source of truth for the business plan - so Cursor drafts stay consistent instead of inventing a new strategy every chat.

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Cursor Customize for Brainstorming and a Personal Agent

Best forAnyone whose idea chats and life-admin chats keep contaminating each other

Use Cursor Customize so brainstorming stays exploratory and your personal agent stays private - without mixing life admin into public drafts.

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Is Cursor Only for Developers? A Better AI Interface for Anyone With Files

Best forAnyone outgrowing ChatGPT tabs who wants file-grounded AI that remembers your rules across projects, semesters, jobs, and side work

Cursor is sold as a coding IDE. I use it as a governed agent for writing, research, commerce, job search, client work, and code when needed. The win is file-grounded memory, not syntax highlighting.

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How I Built an SEO and GEO Publish Pipeline (Without an Agency)

Best forAnyone publishing a personal or company site who wants search and AI discovery without an agency retainer

Publishing is not the hard part — being findable is. I wired preflight checks, llms.txt, IndexNow, and auto-fix scripts into one vault-to-Vercel chain so Google and AI crawlers see what I meant to ship.

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Best Cursor Model by Work Mode (2026): Analysis, Review, Execution, Greenfield

Best forAnyone choosing Cursor model defaults by work mode who wants cost-aware picks from public benchmarks

CursorBench 3.2 reports one score per model, but agent work varies by risk and scope. Here is a work-mode default map for anyone choosing Cursor models — with cost, tokens, and steps from the public table.

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