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Doing more with less: where AI genuinely helps a small NFP team
In most of the not-for-profits we support, one or two people handle IT, comms and data, often on top of another job. When AI comes up in those organisations, the board has usually read something about it, and nobody has…
Cloud cost control as code: automated spend reports, stale resources and off-hours shutdowns
Most cloud bills grow slowly. A test VM runs through a long weekend, or a disk outlives the server it was attached to, and nobody notices until the invoice arrives. The fast blowouts are rarer and much worse. In…
Practical AI for Law Firms: the series
Most of what law firms hear about AI sits at one of two extremes. Either the technology is about to replace junior lawyers, or it is a liability waiting to happen because a court somewhere sanctioned a practitioner for…
#legal-technology#document-review#legal-research#confidentiality#automation
One small team, 100+ automated checks: anatomy of an AI-assisted monitoring platform
A backup job that has not run for eleven days will not send you an email. Neither will a TLS certificate with nineteen days left on it. The failures that cost our clients money are almost never the loud ones; they are…
Practical AI in DevOps: the series
Most of what gets written about AI in DevOps is written by people selling AI in DevOps. This series is our attempt at something more useful: a running account of what we actually run, what it costs us, and where it…
A morning digest your team actually reads: AI-summarised news, spend and system health
Most Australian operations teams I talk to are subscribed to too much. Cloud billing alerts to one inbox, an uptime tool posting to a Slack channel, ad platform notifications to whoever set up the account three years…
#llm-summarisation#automation#monitoring#cloud-costs#prompt-design