AI Strategy for the 50-Person Company: Start Here
Cut through the AI hype and discover the three areas where AI delivers immediate ROI for mid-sized businesses. Learn how to pilot AI without betting your company.
November 6, 2025
11 min read
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Building the AI Business Case Your CFO Will Actually Approve
How to present AI investments to financially-minded decision makers. Calculate realistic ROI, structure pilot programs, and build business cases that get funded.
November 6, 2025
14 min read
The Real ROI of AI: 5 Companies, 5 Outcomes, Actual Numbers
Stop with theoretical AI savings. Here are five real companies with real AI implementations, documented costs, measured results, and honest assessments of what worked and what didn\t.'
November 6, 2025
15 min read
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google: Which AI Platform for Your Business?
Cut through marketing and compare major AI platforms on what matters: real costs, actual capabilities, integration complexity, and business fit for mid-sized companies.
November 6, 2025
10 min read
The Build vs. Buy Decision Matrix for Business Owners
Framework for making build/buy decisions without technical expertise. Questions to answer, factors to weigh, when speed beats ownership, and when ownership beats convenience.
November 6, 2025
10 min read
The $30K Custom Tool That Replaced $15K/Year SaaS
Real case study of custom development economics. Initial investment, ongoing maintenance costs, feature evolution, and 5-year comparison showing custom pays for itself in 24 months.
November 6, 2025
8 min read
AWS for Non-Technical Owners: Why Your Bill Multiplied by 5
Understanding AWS cost structure for business owners without technical backgrounds. Data egress fees, idle resources, and why cloud costs spiral without constant vigilance.
November 6, 2025
12 min read
The Monday.com Pricing Labyrinth: Decoding the Real Costs
Monday.com's pricing looks simple until you need actual features. Understanding per-seat costs, feature gatekeeping, and why companies often switch after year one.
November 6, 2025
11 min read
Zapier Math: When $500/Month Integration Becomes $10K Custom Solution
The real cost of automation at scale. How Zapier grows from $30 to $500 per month, why task limits bite, and when custom integration pays for itself in 6 months.
November 6, 2025
12 min read
The Build vs. Buy Calculator: 5-Year Real Numbers
Actual spreadsheet analysis comparing custom development vs. SaaS platforms. Development costs, maintenance, opportunity cost, platform pricing escalation, and break-even points for different scenarios.
November 6, 2025
9 min read
The $250K Migration That We Abandoned: A Post-Mortem
Honest analysis of a failed ERP migration. What we got wrong in planning, where vendor promises didn\t match reality, the decision to cut losses, and lessons that saved future projects.'
January 22, 2025
13 min read
Custom vs. SaaS: The 3-Year Financial Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of two similar companies: one built custom, one bought SaaS. Real costs, capabilities, and total investment over 36 months. The numbers tell the real story.
January 21, 2025
11 min read
Cloud Cost Optimization: From $22K to $8K Monthly
Real cloud cost reduction project for a SaaS company. Identified and eliminated $168K annual waste through rightsizing, reserved instances, and architectural changes. Complete breakdown of what worked.
January 20, 2025
10 min read
SaaS Consolidation: $67,000 Annual Savings
Complete financial analysis of a SaaS audit and consolidation project for a 75-person company. Eliminated 23 tools, renegotiated 12 contracts, saved $67K annually with 8-month payback period.
January 19, 2025
13 min read
Professional Services Firm: AI-Powered Proposal Generation
8-person consulting firm implements AI for proposal development. Real process redesign, $12K investment, 3-month timeline, 65% time savings on proposals, 22% higher win rate, and quality improvements clients noticed.
January 17, 2025
13 min read
Enterprise Data Warehouse for Mid-Market: The $180K Project
From Excel hell to unified analytics: a 300-person company's 14-month journey implementing a modern data warehouse. Real costs, migration challenges, and $520K annual value from actually understanding their data.
January 16, 2025
19 min read
12-Person Agency: From Spreadsheets to Proper Project Management
How a creative agency ditched 23 Excel files for integrated project management. Real tool selection, $18K investment, 4-month timeline, 40% improvement in on-time delivery, and actual profit margin gains.
January 16, 2025
15 min read
SSO: When Does It Actually Make Sense?
Single Sign-On sounds great but implementation is complex and often expensive. When you actually need it vs. when password managers are fine, cost analysis of major SSO providers, and hybrid approaches.
January 16, 2025
14 min read
200-Person Distributed Workforce: The Unified Communication System
How a mid-market company deployed enterprise-grade unified communications across 200 remote employees in 14 countries. Real architecture, actual costs ($127K), 8-month timeline, and measurable productivity gains.
January 15, 2025
23 min read
Custom Code Ownership: You Built It, Now What?
Building custom software is just the beginning. Ownership means maintenance, updates, security, and evolution. Learn the real ongoing costs and responsibilities of owning custom code.
January 6, 2025
9 min read
Connecting Salesforce Without Hiring a $30K Consultant
Salesforce integration doesn't require massive consulting deals. Learn the ecosystem from Zapier to proper integration platforms, when native connectors work fine, and what questions to ask developers who promise custom integration.
January 6, 2025
14 min read