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What to Look for in an AI Automation Agency

Choosing the right AI automation agency is one of the most consequential decisions your business can make. Here's what separates agencies that ship from those that stall.

Sam Okpara · April 2026

AI Engineering9 min read

How We Built a ChatGPT App to Replace Our Admin Dashboard

Admin dashboards are tables and filters that nobody loves using. We replaced ours with a ChatGPT App -- an MCP server, React widgets, and natural language queries. Here is how the architecture works and what we learned.

Sam Okpara · March 2026

Product7 min read

Solving the Cold Start Problem: Building a Dating Profile Review Marketplace

Dating apps provide zero feedback on why profiles underperform. Building a two-sided marketplace to solve that reveals hard lessons in trust, pricing, and the cold start problem.

Sam Okpara · February 2026

AI Engineering6 min read

Why Most AI Projects Fail Before They Hit Production

Most AI projects die between demo and production. A framework for evaluating AI readiness and understanding what production-grade AI engineering actually requires.

Sam Okpara · January 2026

Product6 min read

The RFP Response Problem: Why Expensive People Are Doing Document Assembly Work

RFP responses consume days of skilled labor on what is fundamentally document assembly. An 8-stage AI pipeline can reduce response time from days to hours while improving compliance rates.

Sam Okpara · December 2025

Product6 min read

Why CRMs Fail Relationship-Driven Businesses (And What Comes Next)

CRMs store relationship data but leave the hard work to you. Agentic relationship intelligence reads your communication streams, builds a dynamic knowledge graph, and surfaces exactly who needs attention and what to say.

Sam Okpara · November 2025

Internal Tools6 min read

Retool vs Custom Code: When to Use What

A practical decision framework for choosing between low-code platforms like Retool and custom-built internal tools, based on real tradeoffs in complexity, cost, and time-to-delivery.

Sam Okpara · September 2025

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