Practical thinking on software, automation, and AI.
The same grounded advice we give clients, written down. Plain answers to the questions businesses and government contractors ask us about software, automation, AI, and the cloud.
Cloud
Which AWS Services Does a Small Business Actually Need?
AWS has more than 200 services. Most small businesses need fewer than ten. Here is the short list, what each one does, and what you can safely ignore.
5 min read, October 17, 2026
Strategy
When to Build Custom Software Instead of Buying SaaS
Off-the-shelf software is the right answer more often than agencies admit. This is the honest framework we use to decide when custom is actually worth it.
5 min read, October 17, 2026
GovCon
What Government Contractors Should Automate First
Capture, proposals, compliance, reporting: every GovCon team has work worth automating. Here's the order we'd tackle it in, and what to keep in human hands.
5 min read, October 17, 2026
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