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A collection of 3 posts
Building a hyper-local AI for Ipswich
AI

Building a hyper-local AI for Ipswich

A lot of AI is presented as if the model itself is the product. In reality, the value often comes from the underlying data, how it is prepared, and how effectively the system retrieves the right information at the right time. That’s what I’ve been building with a
27 Mar 2026 3 min read
I built a Xero AI chat agent inside Copilot and Teams using Copilot Studio
AI

I built a Xero AI chat agent inside Copilot and Teams using Copilot Studio

Most small businesses already have the data they need to spot financial problems early. The issue is that nobody has time to constantly review invoices, suppliers, and payment patterns looking for anomalies. So I built a small experiment. An AI agent that connects to Xero and monitors invoice activity, highlighting
12 Mar 2026 4 min read
Making Production Systems Understandable - Lessons from Using Application Insights
Development

Making Production Systems Understandable - Lessons from Using Application Insights

Most production issues aren’t hard to fix. They’re hard to understand. I’ve seen plenty of incidents where there was no shortage of data. Logs were flowing, metrics were charted, alerts were firing. And yet the first hour was spent guessing. What changed? Where did it start? Is
30 Jan 2026 4 min read
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