Notes on AI, automation and software development for businesses, drawn from client projects and the products we run ourselves.
Industry Guides10 min read
Governments are turning tax enforcement into something closer to a live data feed than a once-a-year paperwork exercise. The OECD's 2026 review of tax administrations found that 76% of surveyed authorities now use artificial intelligence for enforcement and 69% use it for risk assessment — ...
Industry Guides11 min read
Picture a real estate agent's day in Istanbul: in the morning she's explaining a government "please clarify" letter to a client who under-declared a property's sale price at the land registry office; by afternoon she's answered forty WhatsApp messages one by one; by evening she's drafting a listi...
Industry Guides9 min read
Picture a beverage distribution company. At 7 a.m., eight vans pull out of the depot, and each driver works through 25-30 stops in whatever order feels familiar that day. Sometimes two vans end up on the same street an hour apart. Sometimes a customer gets their delivery at 7 p.m. simply because ...
Industry Guides10 min read
What happens when a small textile workshop's sewing machine breaks down at midnight and the next day's order can't ship? You'll usually hear some version of: "there was no way to know it was going to fail." That sentence is exactly what predictive maintenance exists to prove wrong, and it's no lo...
Industry Guides9 min read
A typical corporate job posting now draws around 250 applications; entry-level roles can top 400. Yet the share of applicants who actually make it to an interview has collapsed: from about 15% in 2016 to roughly 3% in 2024. HR teams can't manage a funnel narrowing that fast by hand, which is why ...
Industry Guides9 min read
Summer is when the phone at a tutoring center's front desk doesn't stop ringing. One parent is asking which program fits their child after this year's test results, another gets the price, says "we'll think it over," and never calls back, a third books a consultation and simply doesn't show up. T...
Industry Guides10 min read
Picture a cave hotel in Cappadocia: during a national holiday week, a room can go for the equivalent of well over a thousand dollars a night; on an ordinary Tuesday in the off-season, the same room might drop to a tenth of that. Try to update that price by hand every day and you'll either miss th...
Industry Guides10 min read
Global e-commerce is on track to hit somewhere between $6.9 and $7.4 trillion in sales in 2026, roughly 21% of all retail spending worldwide, with 2.86 billion people now shopping online. Amazon alone counts close to 2 million active sellers among its 9.7 million registered ones; Etsy reports 5.6...
Industry Guides11 min read
As of early 2026, a tracker maintained by legal researchers has logged 1,227 documented cases worldwide where generative AI produced hallucinated content — fake cases, fake quotes, invented statutes — that made it into an actual court filing. New ones are surfacing at a rate of five or six a day....
Industry Guides10 min read
No-show rates at dental clinics and private medical practices are typically reported somewhere between 10% and 30%, and every empty chair usually means about an hour of lost revenue. Clinics trying to close that gap are turning to AI-powered reminder systems — but patient data sits in one of the ...
