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My translator thought Monday.com was a weekday
Generic AI answers generic questions well. Ask it to work inside your business and it hits a wall, and most people blame the AI. The wall is context: what your words mean, which version is current, whose corrections count. Mine translated a product name into a day of the week.
Dive in →From prototype to proposal
The interview with Company A changed my picture of the project more than any benchmark had. I'd assumed the assistant would answe…
Feed your brain →Swapping the database without losing the plot
Open this →This looks like a question we've answered before
Every FAQ has a handful of questions that make up most of the traffic. Company A estimated that about 80 % of the quest…
Take the full dose →Even the yardstick needed calibrating
Rule zero: measure the noise first Before trusting any improvement, I ran the identical setup twice…
The whole story →Psychometrics for AI
How to test an assistant on documents you've never read, and why the test needed testing too.
Read on →The bigger model lost
How I chose, benchmarked and re-chose the language model for a local AI FAQ, and why the 15-billion-parameter model got outread b…
Click for mo’ →Modern automation tools for web
Modern automation tools for web (organizing, developing, deploying) in 2026 focus heavily on AI integration for speed,…
Start reading →What is an AI Blackbox
Blackboxing your business is the future. Whatever planning you do, you should focus on the creativity and let AI do the grunt wor…
More of this →The Hidden Cost of Generic AI
Down the rabbit hole →What investors are actually looking for when you say "we use AI"
"We use AI" has become the startup equivalent of "we have a website." It signals nothing. Investors at every level, angels throug…
Dive in →The ROI of a private AI
At a certain scale, or in certain industries, sending your data to OpenAI or Anthropic is no longer…
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