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Why My AI Assistant Lives in Two Places: The Cloud and a Box at Home
Nova runs as a cloud tier plus a home-box tier running local models. This is why I think a personal assistant should be split that way, and where I think the line between the two should go.
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Why I Think Small Operators Deserve Software Shaped Like Their Business
Gripswich OS has been running a bouldering gym in Ipswich since August. Here's my view on why a small, specific business is often better off with a platform built for how it actually works than with a pile of generic tools.
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Why Local Models Make Sense for a Game That Plays Itself
GAIA is my personal world-evolution game, run by a terraforming AI and her council of sub-intelligences on local LLMs. This is why I think slow, passive and local suit each other, and why it's worth doing a side project that isn't trying to be a product.
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Why I Think Small-Business ERP Should Give Every Tenant Their Own Database
Most SaaS advice says to put every customer in one shared database and filter by tenant ID. For an ERP holding a small business's quotes, invoices and stock, I think a database per tenant is the more honest design.
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Why I Don't Trust Pay-to-Rank, and What It Means for Find a Sign
A look at why marketplace business models built on pay-to-rank are structurally dishonest, and why Find a Sign is built the opposite way.
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Why I Treat AI as Infrastructure, Not a Feature
Most businesses bolt AI onto a product like a sticker. I think that's the wrong mental model — it should sit underneath everything, the way a database does.
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Why I Don't Want One AI, I Want Thirty-Four
A reflection on why Nova is built as a swarm of specialist agents rather than one general model, and what that means for running multiple businesses at once.
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Why I Don't Want an AI That Just Does Tasks
My view on why 'AI as a tool' undersells what's actually possible, and why I'm building Nova as something closer to a colleague than a command line.
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Why I'm Building One Agent System Instead of Five Separate Tools
Nova, AIREP, and Find a Sign could each get their own bolted-on AI feature. I'm deliberately not doing that — here's why treating AI as shared infrastructure beats treating it as a checkbox.
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Why I'm Building a Dashboard Before I Build Anything Else
With five active projects running in parallel, I've stopped trying to hold it all in my head and started building the tool that tells me the truth about what's actually happening.
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