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Notes from the practice.

Educational essays on custom software, AI, agents, automation, MVPs, and strategy. Written to be useful to the owner who is trying to decide what to build.

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Flowuity · Post 01
12 May 20267 min read

When off-the-shelf software stops fitting.

The signs your business has outgrown a SaaS tool, the workarounds that compound, and how to tell whether custom software is the answer — or whether you just have not configured what you already pay for.

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02·AI Implementations

AI inside the work, not next to it.

Why ChatGPT in a browser tab does not move the needle on your business. What “AI inside the work” actually looks like — three patterns we ship most often, and where each one earns its keep.

05 May 20267 min
03·Strategy & Advisory

Inside a Flowuity Discovery.

A look at the two-week paid engagement that begins every Flowuity build. What we read, who we interview, what the memo contains, and why a clear no is the most useful outcome.

02 May 20266 min
04·AI Agents

The work that does not need a person.

Lead qualification, support triage, reconciliation, scheduling. When an AI agent is the right answer, how the economics work, and where agents fail in ways that humans do not.

28 April 20268 min
05·Cybersecurity

What an Identity Architecture Review actually delivers.

Our flagship cybersecurity engagement. Five weeks. Seven domains. A board-grade memo your CIO and CISO can act on without translation.

24 April 20268 min
06·Automation

The five-times rule.

If a workflow in your business runs more than five times a day by hand, it should run itself. How to spot the candidates, the honest payback maths, and why every automation needs a fail-safe.

21 April 20266 min
07·MVPs

Thinking is the most expensive form of stalling.

The cost of inaction is rarely added up. The cost of being wrong usually is. What a real MVP looks like, how 8–14 weeks should be spent, and why "real revenue or a clear no" is the only acceptable outcome.

14 April 20267 min
08·AI Implementations

Putting AI in front of enterprise data: how we govern it.

Our AI Identity & Access Risk engagement. The questions a CIO should answer before the first Copilot rollout — and the artefacts we leave behind so the answers stay good.

08 April 20267 min
09·Strategy & Advisory

When the leak is not in the software.

Sometimes the answer is not to build. It is to fix the pricing, the channel, or the team. How a two-week Strategy engagement tells you which one — and why this is often the cheapest, most valuable thing we do.

07 April 20268 min
10·Custom Software

What the Flowuity build stack looks like, and why we made each call.

Next.js, Supabase, Stripe + PayFast, HubSpot, Resend, Twilio, Anthropic. The reasoning behind a default stack — and the conditions under which we deviate.

21 March 20266 min
11·Channel & Distribution

Distribution where it already happens.

Why most software companies should not build their own sales motion, and how to wire products into the trusted advisors customers already pay.

21 January 20265 min