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Practical notes on automation, AI reliability, and getting more done with less.

July 13, 20263 min read

How to automate customer replies with AI

Slow replies quietly cost you sales. Here's how an AI assistant answers customers on WhatsApp and web chat in under a minute — 24/7 — without sounding like a robot or going off the rails.

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July 12, 20263 min read

n8n vs Zapier vs Make: which to choose?

An honest comparison of the three big automation platforms — what each is genuinely good at, where the costs hide, and how to pick the right one for your business instead of the one with the loudest ads.

n8nZapierMakeAutomation
July 11, 20263 min read

Get hours back every week with automation

Small and mid-sized businesses lose a shocking number of hours to manual, repetitive work. Here are the automations that reliably give that time back — and how to find the ones hiding in your own operation.

AutomationSmall businessOperationsProductivity
June 10, 20262 min read

LLM fallback strategies for production reliability

Models get overloaded, quotas get hit, and outputs come back malformed. Here are the patterns that keep an LLM pipeline running unattended.

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June 10, 20262 min read

Why I self-host n8n instead of using n8n Cloud

n8n Cloud is the easy button — but once you run real automation volume, the maths, the control, and the data ownership all point the same way: self-host. Here's the exact stack I run.

Self-hostingn8nInfrastructureCost
May 28, 20262 min read

Building a resilient multi-agent scraping system

How to retrieve assets from a no-API, anti-bot platform reliably — using click-time URL capture, a fleet of browser agents, and ordered failover.

AutomationPlaywrightReliability
May 20, 20262 min read

RAG in production: grounding an AI assistant on your own docs

Retrieval-augmented generation is simple in a demo and unforgiving in production. The hard parts aren't the model — they're chunking, retrieval quality, and knowing when to say 'I don't know'.

AIRAGLLM
April 8, 20262 min read

Building an AI support triage that actually deflects tickets

Bolting an LLM onto your helpdesk is easy. Building one that customers trust — and that never invents a refund policy — takes a few deliberate guardrails.

AISupportRAG
March 12, 20262 min read

The e-commerce automation playbook

Carts, orders, inventory, reviews — the automations that quietly compound into real revenue for an online store, and how to build them so they don't break.

E-commercen8nAutomation
February 18, 20262 min read

n8n vs. code: choosing the right tool for automation

Visual workflow engines and hand-written code aren't rivals — they're a spectrum. Here's how I decide which one to reach for on each project.

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