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Field notes, guides, and clear takes on AI and digital product development.

01Self-Hosting an LLM: When Does It Actually Pay Off?
Deep DivesJuly 25, 202610 min

Self-Hosting an LLM: When Does It Actually Pay Off?

Open-weight models have almost caught up with the closed ones, so running your own must be the obvious move by now. It sounds so reasonable that few people check it. What happens when you actually run the numbers?They come out badly for most companies. Against frontier APIs, self-hosting starts w...

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02AI Infrastructure Decisions: The Non-Technical Leader's Guide
Deep DivesJuly 23, 202612 min

AI Infrastructure Decisions: The Non-Technical Leader's Guide

Building AI infrastructure for your company means stacking four separate management decisions on top of each other: are you building a system that talks to your data, an autonomous agent that carries out tasks, a way to connect your existing systems together, or a decision about running models on...

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05Business Process Automation: From Excel to Smart Systems
AutomationJuly 22, 202612 min

Business Process Automation: From Excel to Smart Systems

There's probably at least one process in your business that still runs like this: someone opens a spreadsheet every morning, keys in data by hand, double-checks a formula, then pastes the result into an email. If that takes more than three hours a week and repeats the same steps every time, you'r...

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