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Notes from the studio

Practical writing on building and running AI in real businesses: what works, what we shipped, and what we learned doing it.

·AI Automation

Automate Before You Hire: Which Work to Give a Machine First

Before you add headcount, automate the repeatable daily ops and keep people for judgement. What an automated role looks like, and why automating first is the cheaper test.

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·AI Workflows

The AI Workflows That Actually Stick

Which AI workflows are worth building first? The ones that stick run daily, compound, and are safe to get wrong. What works, what breaks, and where to start.

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·AI Consulting

How to Choose an AI Automation Consultant

What decides whether an AI automation project works is reliability and integration, not the model or the demo. The questions to ask a consultant, the red flags, and the real costs.

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·AI Readiness

AI Readiness Assessment: The Three Checks That Decide If You Are Ready

"AI-ready" comes down to three concrete checks, not a maturity score: can a model reach your data, do you have one specific job for it, and will someone own the result.

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·AI Audit

What Is an AI Audit?

Two different services share the name "AI audit". Here's the difference, what a good opportunity audit actually delivers, how to spot a useless one, and what it costs.

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·AI Integration

AI Integration Services: What You're Actually Buying, and What Makes It Work

"AI integration" is really three different jobs that sit far apart in cost. Here is what each one means, why the data connection matters more than the model, what actually breaks in production, and what it costs.

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·AI

Why 90% of AI pilots die in pilot — and how to avoid it

Most AI pilots never make it to production. The reason is almost never the model — it's the scope. Here's the pattern, and the four-question filter that kills bad pilots before they start.

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·AI

What an AI project actually costs in 2026 (the real numbers)

Honest price brackets for AI consulting, internal agent ops, custom SaaS, and API productization in 2026 — with what each tier actually buys you.

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·AI

An Introduction to AI Agents and The OpenAI Assistants

Beginner-friendly Introduction to AI Agents and OpenAI Assistants. This post explains what AI Agents are and provides examples of building agents with the OpenAI API and OpenAI Assistants API

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·AI

The Age of Agents Is Here

Explore limitless use cases and unleash the power of smart AI apps in natural language.

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·AI

How to Safeguard AI Chatbots for Business

Learn how to safeguard your AI chatbots with our expert tips for ensuring data security and response accuracy. Find out how to maintain customer trust and protect your business interests effectively.

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·AI

The Future of SEO: Achieving Top Google Rankings with AI

Unlock the future of SEO with AI. Master class strategies for blending AI efficiency with human touch. The key to speedier content creation, top Google rankings, and real reader engagement starts here.

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·AI

Does Google Penalize AI content

In this article we explore whether Google penalizes AI-generated content. Discover how AI aligns with Google’s E-E-A-T criteria.

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·AI

Mastering the AI Transition: A Step-by-Step Guide for Small Businesses

Mastering the AI Transition: A Step-by-Step Guide for Small Businesses! Mastering the AI Transition: A Step-by-Step Guide for Small Businesses

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·AI

How to improve your landing page copy

Learn how to use AI to create a high-converting website copy. This comprehensive guide covers clear messaging, compelling CTAs, customer testimonials, personalization, and continual optimization. Start using AI today to enhance your website's performance.

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·Engineering

Django and React - How to use InertiaJS in your Django and React Apps

This guide covers InertiaJS fundamentals and how to use it with Django and React. We cover middleware, Inertia decorators, and practical steps to build your own app. Enjoy,

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·AI

Custom LLM's for Marketing

Looking to specialize in marketing law? Explore our custom LLM programs tailored to meet your career goals and excel in the dynamic field of marketing.

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·AI

How to Leverage AI in Digital Marketing

Learn how to effectively use artificial intelligence in your digital marketing strategy. Discover the benefits and techniques to optimize your campaigns.

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·AI

How to scale your business with AI

Learn how to leverage artificial intelligence to grow your business. Discover the strategies and tools needed to scale your operations and increase efficiency.

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·Engineering

How to automatically backup your fly.io Postgres database using GitHub actions

This article will teach you how to create a CLI application for that will automatically backup your Fly.io database to S3.

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·Engineering

How to deploy a production ready websockets server in 5mins

In this article, we'll show you how to deploy a production-ready WebSocket server in just ten minutes. We will also look at some examples.

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·Engineering

How to run multiple processes in a single docker container

In this article, you will learn how to run multiple processes in a single container using Supervisor

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·Engineering

How to build interactive charts in python using htmx and echarts

This article will show you how to build interactive charts in python using htmx and echarts. You will learn how to use include other libraries in your htmx workflow using htmx extensions.

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·Engineering

How to add charts to your Python application

Charts are a great way to communicate information visually. In this article, you will learn how to add charts to your python or Django application.

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·Engineering

Caching in Django to improve site performance

Use caching to make your Django site faster. In this article we cover basic concepts of caching, different caching strategies and techniques for refreshing your cached content.

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·AI

5 ways of using AI for writing better copy

Are you a copywriter looking to stay ahead of the curve? Then you need to know about the ways you can use AI to improve your writing. In this article, we'll show you five ways of using AI for writing copy that will make your work easier and more effective.

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·Engineering

How to connect Django to SingleStore DB

SingleStore is a high-performance database that is perfect for data-intensive applications. This article will show you how to configure Django to use SingleStore as a database.

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·Engineering

Build a fast search UI with Meilisearch, HTMX, and Django

Learn how to easily add a fast search UI to your Django app with Meilisearch, HTMX and Django.

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·Engineering

Django HTMX Server-Side Datatables

Learn how to build a modern, fast UI for browsing large datasets using Django & Htmx. Can easily handle datasets with million plus rows.

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·Engineering

How to create custom form widgets with Django, AlpineJS and TailwindCSS

Learn how to create custom form widgets with AlpineJS, TailwindCSS and Django.

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·Engineering

How to use React in Django Templates

Learn how to integrate React components into your Django application with our step-by-step guide.

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·Engineering

Build a modern web app using Django and Javascript

Learn how to organize your codebase and create a backend API. We will use AlpineJS and TailwindCSS to build a modern frontend.

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·Engineering

An introduction to Web3 and dApps with Python

Learn about Web3, dApps, and Ethereum blockchain with this introduction to decentralized applications. Discover how these technologies are disrupting the finance and banking industries, and explore the key concepts of Web3 and dApps with Python.

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·Engineering

How to build machine and container images with Packer

Learn how leverage Packer to automate the building and provisioning of machine images across multiple platforms.

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·Engineering

How to deploy your Python app to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) using Github actions

In this short tutorial, you will learn how to automate deployments to a VPS via SSH using Github actions and a simple python script.

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·Engineering

How to easily manage and provision your infrastructure with Terraform

Codifying application infrastructure makes it easier to create reproducible infrastructure, reduces the risk of human error and improves execution time when configuring infrastructure.

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·Engineering

How to set up user notifications for your Django App - Part 2

Notifications provide updates about the activity on an application. In this guide, you will learn how to set up simple notifications for your Django application. This is Part 2 of 2 in this tutorial series. We will be focusing on creating the notifications components for our frontend app.

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·Engineering

Django templates and best practices for template structure.

In this post we explaining what Django templates are, how the work ,best practices for template folder structure and how to leverage Django's template inheritance to create maintainable html templates for our projects.

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·Engineering

How to set up user notifications for your Django app - Part 1

Notifications provide updates about the activity on an application. In this guide, you will learn how to set up simple notifications for your Django application.

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·Engineering

How to create a CI/CD pipeline for your Django application using Github actions

CI/CD is a DevOps best practice to help teams collaborate and ship product features faster. Checkout this article on how to use Github actions for your CI/CD pipeline.

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·Engineering

How to setup monitoring for your Django app using New Relic

Easiest way for developers and developers to instrument, analyze, troubleshoot, and optimize your entire software stack.

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·Engineering

How to package and deploy your Python app to the PyPi package index

A quick guide on how to upload your python app to the PyPi package index.(includes code snippets.)

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·Engineering

Why audit logs are important in SaaS applications

Audit logs are the centralized stream of all user activity within a team or an organisation.

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