Ideas, insights, and opinion on technology for small business.
You've got at least one SaaS tool your team complains about and you've been meaning to replace. Vibe coding has made it cheap enough to run a proper experiment — here's how to find out if your worst offender is simpler than it looks.
Most businesses calling themselves AI-native are at level one of four. The gap between levels is the difference between accumulating tools and building something that compounds.
Using AI everywhere isn't a strategy any more than not using it is. The businesses getting it right know exactly where variability lives — and how quickly they can move downstream into something predictable.
AI will tell you the answer whether it knows it or not. Understanding the structural blind spots — the things it genuinely can't know — is the difference between using AI well and being misled by it.
Every vendor will sell you a migration in an afternoon. They don't mention that your data is a mess — and that fixing it is where the real work lives.
Your Mac has had built-in dictation for years. No app, no subscription — just a setting you haven't turned on yet.
