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Notes from the workbench.

Short, opinionated pieces on automation, software and being found. Plus the case studies, once clients sign off on the numbers.

30 Sept 20264 min

When to turn your custom app into a product

You built an app that runs your business. Here is how to tell if others would use it, and the five things that change first.

Software & Products Strategy
11 Sept 20267 min

The AEO checklist: how to get cited by ChatGPT

Nine fixes that make a page quotable to ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. Six you can do this afternoon. Three take months and other people.

SEO & AEO Strategy
11 Sept 20266 min

What AI automation actually costs a small business

Nobody can price it from a one-line description. Here is what moves the number, and how to work out yours before anyone quotes you.

AI & Automation Strategy
11 Sept 20266 min

Freelancer vs agency vs dev shop

You decided to build. Now you pick who builds it, and the three options fail in different places.

Strategy Process
11 Sept 20266 min

Fixed price vs hourly software development

The price is rarely the worry. What happens the week after you say yes is.

Process Strategy
11 Sept 20266 min

Signs you need a custom CRM, not a spreadsheet

Ten symptoms in four groups. Most teams who recognise several of them still should not build.

Software & Products Operations
11 Sept 20267 min

Website checklist for a small business in the Netherlands

A website makes you reachable. Being findable is a different job, and for most local businesses it does not start with the website.

SEO & AEO Strategy
1 Sept 20264 min

What 996 means to us

The name comes from a brutal work schedule. The company does not.

99six Culture
20 Aug 20266 min

What is AEO, and why it matters more than your ranking

People stopped clicking ten blue links. They ask a machine and read the answer. Your site needs to be in that answer.

SEO & AEO Strategy
12 Aug 20265 min

Automation: what to automate first

Not the hardest task. Not the most annoying one either. Here is the actual order.

AI & Automation Operations
4 Aug 20265 min

Build vs buy for small teams

From people who make money when you build.

Software & Products Strategy
28 Jul 20264 min

Custom CRM vs off-the-shelf

HubSpot is fine. The workarounds around it are not.

Software & Products AI & Automation

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