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On discovery, back offices, and where AI actually helps.

We don’t publish often — only when there’s something concrete to say. What’s here tends to cluster around a few threads: finding out what to build before anyone writes code, putting AI inside real workflows (inboxes, order desks, quotes), connecting the systems you already pay for, and the build-or-buy calls operators face every month. Written for people who run the work, not for developers chasing trends.

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A well-presented business owner standing in a bright modern kitchen at 7am in pyjamas, checking her phone, while children in school uniform eat breakfast in the background with their faces not visible.

Built for your Tuesday morning

On why software for businesses needs to be built by people who've felt what it's like when the system isn't there. Not a snipe at developer culture — an observation about whose Tuesday morning the software actually has to survive.

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A developer perched on a workbench in a warehouse beside a picker at her terminal, both leaning toward the screen mid-conversation, two mugs of tea between them.

The most useful sentence in any discovery

The companion piece to the Tuesday-morning post — the actual craft of getting people to tell you what's really going on. Anchored in a real story about a warehouse picker, a print button that logged her out, and a twenty-minute fix that earned us more trust than any deliverable.

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