Learning about AI, one useful thing at a time
Planning permission decisions from Irish local authorities are not exactly light reading. The language is formal, the conditions run on for pages, and if you're a first-time applicant or just…
There's a particular kind of freelancer forum thread that always catches our attention: the one where someone quietly asks "does anyone actually use AI for their invoicing?" and then twenty…
If you run a trade business on your own, you already know the feeling. You're up a ladder or under a sink at half two in the afternoon, and your…
We thought we were being clever. Feed the project details into an AI tool, get a clean schedule out the other end, hand it to the contractor. It worked beautifully,…
If you have been scrolling through property listings on Daft or MyHome lately, you may have noticed that some photos look almost unnaturally good. Bright, warm light in a north-facing…
Every autumn I tell myself I'll get organised before the weather turns. I have a vague list in my head: gutters, boiler, something about the attic. Then October arrives, the…
Most Irish homes run on a basic programmer and a single room thermostat, usually mounted in the hall, nowhere near where anyone actually spends time. The heating comes on, the…
We have been experimenting with AI tools for small business admin for a while now, and invoicing seemed like a perfect fit. Give the chatbot your business details, tell it…
We've been curious for a while about how AI tools are actually landing with small business owners here, not the tech-forward ones who are always early to everything, but the…
The kitchen had been on the list for two years. You know how it is. Every time we had someone over, we'd apologise for the worktop, the way one of…