27th August 2026
Which AI assistant should a small business use?
ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude or Gemini? A vendor-neutral look at how to choose, from a Cornwall software company that doesn’t sell any of them.
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12th August 2026
The August test
Peak season exposes the systems that cope fine the rest of the year. How to spot the signs while they’re happening – and what to do before next summer.
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6th August 2026
Paying by the minute: when pay-per-use starts costing you more than money
We audit our own systems the same way we audit our clients’. Here’s what the last look turned up, and the four places this kind of thing frequently hides in an SME.
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29th July 2026
AI that saves your staff time without replacing them
How we used AI to remove hours of manual data entry from a client’s process, without replacing the human expertise their customers rely on.
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24th June 2026
What actually happens in a business process audit (and why it’s free)
What actually happens in a business process audit, what you’ll learn from one, and why we do them free – no jargon, no obligation.
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8th June 2026
6 ways we ensure consistency in every custom build
No two of our builds are ever the same. Six things always are. Here’s what stays consistent in every piece of custom software we make.
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1st June 2026
Build, buy or integrate? How to tell which you really need
New software isn’t one decision, it’s three: buy, integrate, or build – and most people only consider the first. Three honest questions to tell which one you actually need.
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26th May 2026
A week every quarter, gone: what a disconnected setup actually looks like
When the tools work fine but won’t talk to each other, the time leaks out between them – a real example of what that costs, and how to spot it in your own business.
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19th May 2026
Not just the wages: the real cost of doing things the hard way
Your team’s wages aren’t the biggest bill. Here’s what an operational inefficiency is actually costing you – and why the wages are the smallest part of it.
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13th May 2026
10 subtle signs your operations are costing you more than you think
Operational problems rarely announce themselves. They settle in as “just the way we do it” and quietly cost you for years – here are ten of the most common signs we see in SMEs.
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5th May 2026
The 5PM feeling: where SMEs lose 5-15 hours every week
You sit down at nine with a clear plan. By five, it hasn’t moved. The day was busy, but the things you meant to do are still waiting.
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