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What Monaco directors ask us before a project, answered in writing, in plain words, with the numbers and the sources. New articles most weeks.

20 October 2026 · 4 min

Questions to ask an AI agency before signing

Several agencies around Monaco now say “AI”. Most are honest; some are good. These ten questions, asked to all of them including us, tell you which.

17 October 2026 · 4 min

AI for a company of nine people

IMSEE counts 59,724 private-sector employees for 6,378 employers at the end of 2025: nine people per company, on average. Almost everything written about AI is written for companies of nine hundred. This is for the other kind.

15 October 2026 · 4 min

Custom software or SaaS: how a small company should decide

For twenty years the advice was “never build, always rent”. For standard needs it still holds. For the process that makes your company yours, the arithmetic has changed.

13 October 2026 · 4 min

Preparing your documents for an AI assistant

The assistant does not know your prices; it reads them. If three price lists exist, it will find the wrong one. Here is the afternoon of housekeeping that makes the difference between a system people trust and one they correct.

10 October 2026 · 4 min

Extended Monaco and the Fonds Bleu: what they cover for an AI project

Monaco is one of the few places where the Government will help a company of nine people pay for its first automation. Few directors know it; fewer use it.

7 October 2026 · 5 min

Law 1.565 in practice: what it means for AI in a Monaco company

We are builders, not lawyers, and your counsel has the last word. But we build under this law every week, and here is what it asks of a system in practice.

3 October 2026 · 5 min

Connecting AI to Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and your CRM

An assistant that cannot read your inbox and write to your CRM is a demo. Connecting it is most of the work, and it is where the security questions live. Here is the checklist we run every time.

30 September 2026 · 5 min

Measuring the return of an AI project, honestly

The AI industry measures itself in projections. A Monaco company can do better: count what actually happened, every month, from the log.

26 September 2026 · 5 min

Which processes to automate first: a method

“Automate everything” is not a plan. Here is the scoring we use to decide which task goes first, which can be done on a napkin, and which we run as a seven-minute questionnaire across a company.

23 September 2026 · 4 min

AI agent or chatbot: which one does your business need?

The two words are used as if they meant the same thing. They do not, and choosing the wrong one is the most common way a first AI project disappoints.

19 September 2026 · 6 min

What an AI project really costs a Monaco company

Nobody will tell you a number on a web page, and anybody who does is guessing. But the structure of the cost is knowable, and once you know it, a proposal becomes easy to read.

16 September 2026 · 5 min

Where to start with AI in a Monaco business

Every week a Monaco director asks us some version of “where do we start?”. The honest answer is shorter than the question: with the task you do at 7 pm.

Start with a 30-minute call. Keep what it finds.

You tell us where the hours go. We tell you which two or three tasks to automate first, in a short written note. Free, in English or French.

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