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Why I started NZ Ledger as open financial infrastructure
NZ Ledger is my plan for open-source financial infrastructure designed for people, AI agents, and New Zealand businesses.
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Principal AI Strategist at Cloverbase. Microsoft MVP since 2012. Co-author of Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption. Host of The Intelligence Age Podcast with 837+ episodes.
Mark Smith · Principal AI Strategist14 years as Microsoft MVP837+ podcast episodes
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We made four websites agent-ready with WebMCP
AI agents already visit our websites and interpret pages built for human eyes. This weekend, we gave all four sites a structured interface they can use safely.
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Why My AI DevOps Team Runs on a Ralph Loop
My AI DevOps board looked frozen for twelve hours. The fix was not smarter orchestration, but a Ralph loop with real hard stops.
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Building Sandy: a read-aloud tool for how I work
Sandy is a Windows 11 read-aloud app I built for dyslexia support, with Azure AI Speech, sentence-level playback, and click-to-read.
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I replaced my CRM in a single afternoon
After 23 years working with enterprise CRM platforms, I built a custom AI-native replacement in a single afternoon. Here is why the SaaS model is about to change.
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