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I’ve spent most of my career in and around digital delivery. Different organisations, different sectors, different technology stacks. Across all of it, I’ve had a version of the same conversation more times than I care to admit. A client comes in with a clear ask – build us a Power App, automate this process, give…
If you grew up in the UK in the 1980s, your first experience with coding likely didn’t involve a sleek MacBook and a GitHub repository. It involved a beige box, a cassette tape player, and a noise that sounded like a fax machine screaming in agony. Whether you were Team Sinclair – battling the rubber keys of…
Most business leaders know when something isn’t quite right. Revenue grows, teams stay busy, technology spend is healthy, yet margins remain flat and everyone feels permanently stretched. The visible costs are managed deliberately – headcount, technology, premises – but something else is consuming resources without appearing cleanly on the profit and loss account. It’s the…
Why I Hired Claude Opus as My Architect and Gemini 3 as My Consultant For a long time, I tried to be “AI monogamous”. I wanted one subscription, one chat window and one answer. I spent months trying to force Google Gemini to be a perfect in-line code architect, and just as long trying to…
AI-First Thinking Is How Circyl Has Always Worked Artificial intelligence has moved from curiosity to capability at remarkable speed. For many organisations, it now sits awkwardly alongside legacy processes, fragmented data and operating models that were never designed to learn, adapt or scale intelligently. Circyl’s position is different. Not because we adopted AI early, but…
Excel has earned its place as one of the most versatile tools in business history. Yet for all its power, many organisations are quietly drowning in it. When critical reporting, forecasting, and decision-making depend on endless manual spreadsheets, you are not managing data – you are managing chaos. Escaping Excel Hell with automated business reporting…
Where We Went Wrong with Excel For decades, Excel has been the quiet workhorse of business life. It has modelled finances, tracked sales, forecast demand and helped managers make sense of the numbers. But somewhere along the way, that helpful spreadsheet evolved into something far more dangerous – a sprawling maze of formulas, links and…
An Alternative History of Computing – Part One Editors Note: All images created using Sora AI by OpenAI and are based on how the writer remembers them. After a recent #GreggsWalk we sat around the diner at work discussing various things – wide ranging topics such as BBC Sounds podcasts, football, the features and benefits…
Circyl secures Dynamics 365 CRM project with London based Law Firm Anthony Gold We are excited to announce that Circyl has been selected by Anthony Gold, a leading London law firm, to design and implement a firm-wide CRM solution on Microsoft Dynamics 365. The initiative will modernise how the firm captures and manages new enquiries,…
How Custom Applications Can Revolutionise Client Engagement Client engagement is no longer something that happens by chance. In almost every sector, supplier choice is broad, procurement cycles are rigorous and attention is split across competing priorities. The organisations that thrive are those that create meaningful, sustained connections with their clients and stakeholders. An increasingly powerful…