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Essays
20 July 2026 · 4 min read
Everyone's buying AI. Almost nobody's shipping it.
The honest answer to "why did our AI pilot stall?" More than 40% of AI projects die before they go live. The tool was never the hard part; the wiring is.
20 July 2026 · 4 min read
The license leak most organizations never audit.
The honest answer to "are we quietly overpaying for software nobody uses?" Probably, around $5,000-6,000 a year for a 50-200-seat organization. Here's how to find it yourself.
Guides
The fixed-fee installs a Vendor Review most often leads to, written up in full: what they cover, how they run, and what they cost.
An agent that works on a normal Tuesday, not just in the demo.
What AI agents for business really do, why most stall between the demo and production, and how we build and run them. Fixed fees, priced before the work starts.
You know the work is being done twice. You just cannot point at the cost.
Business process automation in plain English: the four places work leaks, how to find your own worst process this week, and what an automation consultant should actually install. Prices published.
Systems that work where the internet does not.
Offline field data collection and monitoring systems for programs whose workers have no signal. Works with no internet, syncs when it finds one, and your organization owns the data. From $15,000, fixed.
Microsoft 365 for nonprofits: what you get, what it costs, and where it quietly leaks.
What the grant covers, what nonprofit pricing looks like now the free licenses are ending, and how to find the leak yourself.
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