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AI DevelopmentPrompt a coding agent as a to-do list and it loses the thread, redoes finished work and drags early mistakes forward. I express the job as a dependency graph instead, and that is why a fixed price is possible. Plus the knowledge base that keeps each run from starting at zero.
AI Development"Our AI can't answer that" is usually a data-shape problem, not a model problem. What changes when your business is stored as entities and relationships instead of flat lists, why coding agents turned a six-month enterprise project into a few weeks, and the afternoon test that tells you whether you need one at all.
AI DevelopmentNine times out of ten, "we want our own AI model trained on our data" describes a retrieval problem, not a training one. The four tests that decide it, what owning a model really costs after launch, and the five questions to put to anyone proposing to train you one.
Business StrategyEvery 2026 price I could verify in one place — four named public sources whose ranges disagree by more than 10x, the reason they disagree, and the multipliers that actually move a quote.
Business StrategyWhere a ChatGPT or Copilot subscription is enough for your business, and where a custom AI build starts to win.
AI AssistantsEight platforms compared for 10-500 person companies: Nora, Sintra AI, Lindy, Vellum, Copilot Studio, Agentforce, Relevance AI and Ema. One of them is mine, and the page says so.
Business StrategySeven agencies for 10-500 person companies: what each actually builds, how they engage, published price ranges where they exist — and an honest disclosure that mine is on the list.
AI DevelopmentOne script becomes a multi-scene film on Google Veo 3.1, with scenes written by Gemini 3.7 Flash. The build, the constraints nobody warns you about, and what shipping bring-your-own-key taught me about pricing an AI product.
AI AssistantsEvery vendor counts its connectors. None explain month one: logins that quietly expire, permissions scoped far too wide, an assistant that repeats work it already did, and the tools that cannot connect at all.
AI AssistantsThree real routes, not one: rent a managed assistant, commission a focused custom build, or build a platform. What the market charges for each, and what running one actually costs an SMB.
Business StrategyVendor prices look cheap next to a salary. Here are the four costs they leave off: setup hours, the internal owner, month-one corrections and error risk.
