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Practical articles on AI and the cloud it runs on, for people who'd rather have specifics than buzzwords.

AI Agents · 10 Jun 2026

Agent Harnesses, Explained: What Hermes and OpenClaw Mean for Your Business

The model gets the headlines, but the harness does the work. A deep dive into agent harnesses, using Hermes and OpenClaw as examples, and where the business value actually is.

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AI Agents · 10 Jun 2026

Agent Orchestration: The Pros, the Cons, and When Many Agents Beat One

Once one agent works, the temptation is to wire up a whole team of them. Sometimes that's the breakthrough. Often it's complexity you didn't need. An honest look at agent orchestration.

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AI Explainers · 10 Jun 2026

Demystifying AI Jargon: A Plain-English Glossary for Business Owners

Tokens, RAG, fine-tuning, agents, hallucinations: the AI words that actually come up in sales meetings, explained in plain English, with why each one matters to your business.

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AI Strategy · 10 Jun 2026

No-Code AI Tools Like Lovable: When They're Enough, and When They're Not

No-code AI builders like Lovable are great for prototypes. But a prototype that quietly becomes load-bearing is where the trouble starts. When to build it yourself, and when to bring in help.

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AI Strategy · 10 Jun 2026

The 2026 AI Model Landscape: Which One Should Your Business Use?

Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok are closer than the marketing suggests. What each is good at, what they cost, and why the smart move for most businesses isn't picking just one.

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AI Strategy · 10 Jun 2026

How to Maximise the ROI on Your AI Project (and Land in the 5% That Works)

Most AI projects never pay off, and it's almost never the technology's fault. The four decisions, made before any code is written, that separate the projects that return money from the ones that quietly stall.

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AI Agents · 10 Jun 2026

Building AI Agents on AWS: AgentCore, Bedrock Guardrails and the Pieces That Matter

The hard part of a production agent isn't the model. It's the infrastructure around it. A guide to the AWS building blocks for agents: Bedrock AgentCore, Bedrock Guardrails and how they fit.

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AI Explainers · 10 Jun 2026

Prompt Engineering: A Practical Guide for Business, With Examples

Most 'bad AI results' are really bad prompts. Six plain-English techniques, with real before-and-after examples, to get usable output for everyday business tasks.

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AI Explainers · 10 Jun 2026

What Is an AI Agent? A Plain-English Guide for Business Owners

Chatbots answer questions; agents do the work. A jargon-free guide to what AI agents actually are, what they can realistically do for a small business, and where to start.

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The AI Adoption Playbook

If you're reading up before making a move, start here: picking a use case, getting your data ready, and what AI actually costs to run.

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