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Business Applications

Autonomous Operations

By Richard Asquith / September 21, 2026

Gain Automation & AI Autonomous Operations The repeatable, manual work that holds your business together now just runs on its own. The approvals, the follow-ups and the data moving from one place to another so the notifications that depend on someone remembering them simply happen, reliably, in the background. The invisible overhead of people holding…

Dynamics 365

By Richard Asquith / September 11, 2026

Business Applications Dynamics 365 But not as you know it.Dynamics 365 is widely known as CRM software but there is a lot more to it than that. Microsoft’s own Dynamics applications are built on an underlying business platform called Dataverse, which holds the data and runs the processes for all of them, with enterprise-grade security…

Platform Pain

By Richard Asquith / August 24, 2026

Pain Platform Pain Are your systems working for you or against you? You bought software to fit your business. Now you’re bending the business to fit the software. Maybe it never really fit, maybe it’s limping towards end of life or you’ve ended up running three overlapping systems that all do roughly the same job.…

Swivel Chair Syndrome

By Richard Asquith / August 20, 2026

Pain Swivel Chair Syndrome Are your people your system integration layer? When two systems can’t talk to each other, someone has to be the go-between. They read a value off one screen and type it into the next or export a file from here and upload it over there, all day. It’s the kind of…

Staying Human in a World Run by Machines

By Jade Bliss / March 26, 2026

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…

From Rubber Keys to Robot Code – The Journey to Gen AI

By Pete Oare / March 5, 2026

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…

Silent Waste: The Hidden Cost of Weak Digital Foundations

By Richard Asquith / February 23, 2026

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…

The Split-Brain Workflow

By Pete Oare / January 28, 2026

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…

How Falcon Contract Flooring Doubled Their Turnover Without Adding Operational Overhead Through Digital Transformation

By Richard Asquith / January 14, 2026

How Falcon Contract Flooring Doubled Turnover Without Adding Overhead Falcon Contract Flooring is a leading UK commercial flooring specialist operating in a fast-moving, delivery-critical environment. As the business grew, maintaining control across jobs, teams and suppliers became essential to scaling without adding overhead. Read business case study Client Snapshot Client: Falcon Contract Flooring Sector: Commercial…

An Alternative History of Computing

By Richard Asquith / October 17, 2025

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…