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9 articles matching / latest 03 Sept 2026
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
Two shops quoted the same spreadsheet-to-app job at four thousand dollars and forty thousand dollars. Neither one was lying. The spread is a measurement of how much you did not tell them, and it is the only number in the transaction you actually control.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
A free trial hands you the software and none of your data, and your data is the only part that was ever in question. Here is the two-hour test to run before you open the trial, and the one number that decides the purchase.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The plumbing that lets an AI agent spend your company's money unattended is now a versioned spec with sixty payment companies behind it. The rule about who eats a bad purchase is not written yet, and the protocol's own documentation says so in plain language.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The six-step flow that has handled every inbound lead for two years costs about two thousand tasks a month and never surprises you. Every vendor now wants you to rebuild it as an agent. The test for whether you should is one sentence long, and the vendors published it themselves.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
Three renewals this quarter, three new AI lines, priced anywhere from twenty nine dollars flat to a hundred and twenty five per seat. Which ones to pay for has almost nothing to do with how good the AI is.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
Two of last month's calls said they found you by asking an assistant. The settings that decide whether your name can appear at all are free and take an afternoon, and the thing being sold to you as the fix is documented by Google as not being a requirement.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The build took a Friday afternoon. The part nobody warned you about is the two decisions that come after it, and neither one is code: who can open the thing, and whether it is allowed to be the only place a number lives.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
It is not the row count. A spreadsheet stops being good enough the moment two people can both be right about the same number, and that day arrives years before the file gets slow.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
The right first automation is not your biggest time sink. It is the small task that quietly does not happen when everyone is busy, because that is where the money actually leaks.
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