AI Tools12 min read
NotebookLM for Business: What It Does and Where It Breaks
What NotebookLM does with your company documents, the account setting that changes its privacy, the scanned-PDF limit, and when to build your own RAG instead.
Guides on AI and software
Notes on AI, automation and software development for businesses, drawn from client projects and the products we run ourselves.
Industry Guides11 min read
Drone Spraying Cost Per Acre: Does Owning One Pay Off?
What drone spraying really costs per acre, what "90% water savings" actually means, and the independent break-even numbers behind owning versus hiring.
AI Tools10 min read
Is DeepSeek Safe for Business? Where Your Company Data Goes
Is DeepSeek safe? Every manager who asks us this gets a question back first: which DeepSeek? The app on your phone, the model running on your company's own server, or the service you buy through Microsoft's cloud? All three carry the same name, and what happens to your data is completely differen...
AI Tools10 min read
What Is Perplexity AI? Can It Replace Google?
37 percent. When Columbia's Tow Center tested eight AI search tools with 200 questions in March 2025, that was Perplexity's rate of incorrect answers. It sounds bad, until you look at the rest of the table: the eight tools averaged over 60 percent wrong, and the worst reached 94 percent. Perplexi...
Industry Guides10 min read
Smart Greenhouse: Sensor Data, Irrigation and Climate Control
A smart greenhouse's first year is a data year, not an AI year. The right order from sensors to threshold rules to prediction, what Wageningen found, and grants.
Industry Guides10 min read
Warehouse Slotting Optimization: Does AI Halve Picking Time?
Vendors promise to halve picking time. The travel share, a realistic gain band, ABC slotting in a spreadsheet and when a WMS becomes necessary.
Industry Guides10 min read
Used Car Pricing Tool for Dealers: AI Pricing and Listings
7,572,528. That is how many used cars changed hands in Turkey in 2025, up 6.6 percent on the year and a record; roughly one transfer every four seconds. Inside a volume like that, every independent dealer faces two questions, and both are answered with numbers: what should I pay for this car and ...
Industry Guides11 min read
Auto Repair Shop Software: AI Pre-Diagnosis, Photo Approvals
Half past nine on a Tuesday morning in a three-bay independent repair shop. The owner has one hand under a hood and the other on a phone buzzing in his pocket. It is the customer who dropped a car off yesterday: "Any news? Did you look at it? What did you find?" Nobody has looked at it yet. But t...
Industry Guides10 min read
Florist Software: Getting Through Peak Days Profitably
Cut flowers last 5-7 days and most revenue lands on a few peak dates. How florist software, occasion reminders and demand forecasting turn that squeeze into profit.
Industry Guides10 min read
Salon Booking Software: Will It Really Fix No-Shows?
No-shows can cost a salon thousands a month. The realistic math behind booking software, the pricing traps vendors don't mention, and where AI genuinely fills empty chairs.