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One problem at a time, with the full method

Nothing held back: the method is given in full. Reading how it is done is the best way to judge whether someone can do it, and often, to realise you would rather not do it yourself.

Breaking free

31 July 2026· 8 min read

What your IT really costs you, and how to price it in an hour

The software bill is only part of the real cost. You must add the hours your teams spend compensating for the tool’s gaps, and the cost of incidents nobody records. In practice the sum of the three is almost always two to four times what the owner had in mind, and an hour is enough to establish it.

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Sovereign, local AI

31 July 2026· 9 min read

Running AI on your own servers: what actually works

Yes, it is feasible, and for most business uses the hardware costs less than people assume. The right architecture is almost never “all local” or “all cloud”, but a sorting step: a model installed on your side handles everyday volume, and only what genuinely needs more leaves, knowingly, under a written rule.

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Finishing what was started

31 July 2026· 7 min read

I built an app with AI and it does not hold: here is what is missing

It is almost never the code that is missing: it is everything around it. An application produced with AI quickly reaches a working screen, then hits four things no tool builds on its own: data that lasts, accounts and permissions, behaviour when things go wrong, and a stable place to run. Picking that work up is far faster than starting over.

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