Notes fromthe work itself.
Practical writing on AI operations, automation and running a business with systems that actually work. Case studies from our own builds, plus plain-language explainers with sources you can check.
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How Holiday Extras Used Codex to Rebuild Its App in Two Weeks—and What It Means for Small Businesses
Holiday Extras rebuilt its main travel app in two weeks using Codex. Small businesses can learn from this.
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Waku Agent: Your Local-First AI Assistant in 95 Lines of Code
A local-first AI assistant you own, with a 95-line loop, SQLite memory, and built-in eval.
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n8n Just Gave AI Its Own Computer: Meet Nod, a Personal Agent That Asks Before It Acts
n8n Labs just released Nod, a free open-source personal agent that runs on your own computer, works in your apps and on the real web, and asks before it acts. What it…
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Free, Open-Source Dictation for Windows That Cleans Up Your Speech
Small businesses get a free, private dictation tool that runs locally and removes filler words.
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Self-Hosted Occupancy Board: A Simple Way to Know Who’s In the Office
A self-hosted board shows who is in, out, or away — no group texts needed.
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Google Tabletop AI: Build Custom Collaboration Tools Without Coding
Google’s experimental Tabletop AI lets you describe tools like chore charts or expense splitters, and it builds them instantly.
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NitroMTA: Rust‑Based Amazon SES Replacement for Small Businesses
NitroMTA is an open‑source, Rust‑written mail engine that mimics Amazon SES v2 while letting you run email on your own servers.
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We Had Our AI Agent Round Up Every Veterans Day Deal in Rapid City — Here’s the Verified List
Our AI agent Hermes scanned local news, national roundups, and merchant pages for Veterans Day specials in Rapid City. Then we checked every claim against its source and cut anything that wasn’t…
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CowAgent: Open-Source AI Assistant That Plans, Remembers, and Evolves
CowAgent is an open-source AI assistant that plans tasks, runs tools, builds memory, and improves itself over time.
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SkillHub: An Open-Source Agent Skill Registry for Your Small Business
A self-hosted, open-source registry to publish, share, and govern reusable AI agent skills.
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