The problems nobody put in the manual.

Just Tell Jo is Cadalyst’s regular field dispatch. Each issue has one problem CAD managers and design-firm practitioners are dealing with right now, reported from what the field actually said. Then one named expert’s take on what they would do about it.

Written for the person who owns the technology

Usually without the title, the budget, or an IT department. The principal who signs the renewals. The senior engineer who became the CAD manager because nobody else would. The designer who inherited “IT.”

Each month Jo goes looking for how other people in that role handled it: the upgrade they put off too long, the day they became IT, the standard nobody wrote down, letting AI into the workflow without losing the plot. She reports back from the public record, counted and sourced, with the vendor names left out.

What arrives in your inbox

• The problem, what practitioners said and where they agree and disagree.
• The Response: one named expert’s answer to the same problem, in their own words and clearly marked.