Notes on AI, automation and software development for businesses, drawn from client projects and the products we run ourselves.
Industry Guides9 min read
Accounts payable automation is now the second most common AI use case actually running inside finance teams, according to a November 2025 Gartner survey — behind knowledge management (49%) and just ahead of anomaly detection (34%), with AP automation itself at 37%. The McKinsey Global Insti...
Industry Guides10 min read
Picture a neighborhood grocery store. In the back room, 40 cartons of milk are two days from their sell-by date and still sitting on the shelf, while the best-selling chocolate wafers have been out of stock for three days straight. The owner's only planning tool is a spreadsheet updated by hand: ...
Industry Guides23 min read
A restaurant owner and an accountant don't need the same thing from AI. One is trying to turn tonight's order data into tomorrow's menu; the other is checking hundreds of invoices by hand every month. Both ask us the same question: "should I be using AI?" That's the wrong question. The right one ...
AI for Business10 min read
Ask a software company how much an AI project costs, and you'll almost always get the same non-answer: "it depends." True, but not exactly useful. This piece does the opposite: real, current, line-by-line dollar figures as of mid-2026, including the costs vendors tend to leave out of the first qu...
AI for Business10 min read
Picture a boardroom: the CEO says "our competitors are using AI, we need to do something too," the IT team throws together a chatbot demo, everyone is impressed, and the project gets a green light. Six months later, that demo is still just a demo. Nobody dares put it in front of real customers. T...
AI for Business10 min read
You've decided to invest in an AI project, you've set aside a budget, and now comes the hard part: picking who actually builds it. Search "AI consultant" and you'll get dozens of agencies, freelancers, and self-proclaimed "transformation experts." Some run real engineering teams. Some are one per...
AI for Business12 min read
In November 2025, Turkey's data protection authority quietly did something that a lot of businesses operating in the country hadn't planned for: it published a 64-page official guidance document on generative AI and personal data. The authority is called KVKK (Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurumu, the ...
AI for Business10 min read
"We'd love to invest in AI, but the budget just isn't there." You'll hear some version of that sentence from at least two out of three small and medium businesses in Turkey. According to Turkey's national statistics institute (TÜİK), high cost is the second most common reason Turkish companies gi...
AI for Business10 min read
Recent US Census Bureau survey data tells an interesting story: among businesses with fewer than 50 employees, roughly one in ten has actually adopted AI tools. That means the vast majority of your competitors haven't started either. This isn't a story about falling behind. It's a story about how...
AI for Business19 min read
If you run a small or midsize business, here's the real story on AI, not the social media hype: most companies haven't actually put it to work yet. According to McKinsey's 2025 State of AI survey, roughly three in four large organizations now use AI in at least one business function, but national...
