Practical guides on AI implementation, business automation, custom software and replacing the Excel spreadsheet your business runs on. Written from twenty years of software delivery experience, honest about what works and what does not.
Specific, costed AI automations for back-office workflows. The boring builds that take a half-day off your team every week and quietly compound.
Per-expense cost from £6 manual to under £1 automated, plus the hidden compliance gain. Real cost bands and timelines.
Read the guide →The £8-£15 per manual invoice problem, AI alternatives, and where Tipalti, Dext and AutoEntry fit vs custom.
Read the guide →The monthly board pack is the wrong artefact. Here is what to build instead, and when off-the-shelf reporting tools fit.
Read the guide →The PO is not the bottleneck, supplier-price-list discipline is. Where Procurify and Coupa fit and where they do not.
Read the guide →Data entry is a symptom of system fragmentation. The honest fix is integration, not RPA.
Read the guide →Without sounding like a chatbot wrote them. The pattern that works for UK SMEs in 2026.
Read the guide →Pulling structured data out of the messy unstructured stuff. PDFs, spreadsheets, scanned documents, contracts.
For real business use, not a one-off conversion. Real cost bands and where Docparser, Rossum and AWS Textract fit.
Read the guide →The one-time fix and the pattern that scales. When PDF-to-Excel is the symptom of a bigger automation problem worth solving properly.
Read the guide →When to automate the sheet, and when to replace it. The threshold where Sheets stops being right.
Read the guide →When you have outgrown SaaS or the SaaS does not fit how your business actually works.
When SaaS does not fit how you actually take bookings. Multi-practitioner, multi-resource, multi-rule scenarios.
Read the guide →The honest guide, not a 50-tool listicle. The AI tools that actually pay back, the ones that are a waste of money.
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