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What does an AI agent cost? Prices and examples
What does an AI agent cost? Build and running costs at a glance, with model prices (November 2026), a worked example, and the traps where costs run away.
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What does an AI agent cost? Prices and examples
What does an AI agent cost? Build and running costs at a glance, with model prices (November 2026), a worked example, and the traps where costs run away.
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AI
Office AI agents: Cowork, ChatGPT Work, and more
Claude with Cowork and Duet, ChatGPT Work, Perplexity Teammates: what the new office AI agents do, what they cost, and where they still fail.
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Prevent AI hallucinations: answers need evidence
How to prevent AI hallucinations: why agents should answer only with evidence from your data, how that is built, and what happens with contradictions.
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AI agent glossary: 20 terms in plain words
Agent, harness, MCP, A2A, RAG, human in the loop: 20 terms around AI agents, two sentences each, with what they mean for a business.
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10 questions before your first AI agent project
Ten questions to settle before your first AI agent: process, data, access, approvals, cost, and success. With the answers that carry a project.
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Can AI agents use German websites? 1,000 tested
Can browser agents use German websites? 1,000 top sites tested: 52% with fake buttons, 66% with covered controls, almost no WebMCP.
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12 jobs for AI agents in ERP, PIM, and CRM
Twelve jobs AI agents take over in ERP, PIM, and CRM today: what the agent does, what it needs, and what stays with a person.
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AI agent, RPA, or workflow: which fits when
AI agents, RPA, and workflow automation compared: what each does, where each breaks, and why most business processes need all three.
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MCP or API: how AI agents reach your ERP
MCP is the standard AI agents use to work in ERP, PIM, and CRM. What it adds to an API, which ERPs ship a server, and when the API is the better route.
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n8n vs Make vs Zapier for AI agents
n8n, Make, and Zapier compared for AI agents: billing and prices (November 2026), agent features, data protection, and when code is the better choice.
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9 product data errors AI agents catch
Missing attributes, mixed units, copy that contradicts the attribute: nine typical product data errors, how an AI agent finds them, and what it proposes.
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What is an AI agent? Definition and examples
An AI agent is a language model that completes tasks with tools. What it consists of, and how it differs from a chatbot and from a workflow.
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SEO & AI search
German small business websites: 150 checked
We ran 150 small business websites through seven checks: 55% cite outdated law, 76% do not stop forged email, 89% fail automated accessibility tests.
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How fast AI agent techniques age: a timeline
From prompt tricks to /goal: two years of AI agent techniques on one timeline. Which aged within months, which moved into the products, and what lasts.
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15 AI automation examples for small businesses
Fifteen AI automations that pay off in small and mid-sized businesses: inbox, invoices, leads, product data, and reports, with the systems each one needs.
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The best free accessibility checkers, ranked
A vendor-neutral ranking of free website accessibility checkers: what WAVE, axe, Lighthouse, and others test, and what no automated WCAG check can.
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Automation
The best free DMARC checkers, ranked
A vendor-neutral ranking of free DMARC, SPF, and DKIM checkers: what each one tests, where record checkers stop, and which email mistakes they catch.
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SEO & AI search
The best free domain authority checkers
A vendor-neutral ranking of free domain authority checkers: Ahrefs DR, Moz DA, Semrush Authority Score, Majestic Trust Flow, and why they never agree.
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SEO & AI search
The best free Open Graph checkers, ranked
A vendor-neutral ranking of free Open Graph checkers and link preview testers for LinkedIn, Facebook, X, and WhatsApp, and what each one misses.
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AI
The best free robots.txt testers, ranked
Google retired its robots.txt Tester in 2023. The free tools that replace it, which parser each uses, and how to test GPTBot and other AI bots.
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The best free schema markup validators, ranked
A vendor-neutral ranking of free schema markup validators: Rich Results Test, Schema Markup Validator, Search Console, and what valid markup still misses.
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The best free tech stack detectors, ranked
A vendor-neutral ranking of free tools that show what a website is built with: Wappalyzer, BuiltWith, WhatRuns, Netcraft, and where detection stops.
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Can AI crawlers read JavaScript?
Mostly not. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot read the raw HTML and skip JavaScript. What that hides from ChatGPT and Claude, and how to fix it.
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What is /goal in Claude Code and Codex?
/goal keeps Claude Code or Codex working across turns until a completion condition holds. How the evaluator decides, and how to write a goal that holds.
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What is an agent-friendly website?
An agent-friendly website is one AI agents can operate for a user: real buttons, named controls, stable layout, WebMCP. Google's rules, checked.
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What is an agent harness?
An agent harness is the software around a language model that makes it act: context, tools, loop, permissions, checks. Why it matters more than the model.
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What is an LLM wiki?
An LLM wiki is a knowledge base of linked Markdown pages that a language model writes from raw sources. Karpathy's pattern, and how it compares to RAG.
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AI visibility of German websites: 1,000 checked
We checked the 1,000 most-linked German websites for AI visibility: 60% lack Organization schema, 27% block an AI crawler, 6% publish llms.txt.
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The best free AI visibility checkers, ranked
A vendor-neutral ranking of free AI visibility checkers: which count your mentions in ChatGPT and Gemini, and which test whether AI can read your site.
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AI
AI email triage: what the agent does
AI email triage: an agent reads incoming mail, extracts the data, routes it to CRM, ERP, or support, and drafts the reply. How it works, where humans stay.
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AI
Product data for AI shopping assistants
AI shopping assistants recommend products they can verify. Which product attributes decide, where they have to live, and how to get a catalog ready.
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What is RAG? Retrieval in plain terms
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) lets an AI answer from your own documents: find the right passages, then write a grounded answer that cites them.
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26% of top websites block AI crawlers
Robots.txt scan of the 800 most-linked websites: 26.6% block at least one AI crawler, GPTBot 19.2%, OAI-SearchBot only 8%. Full per-bot numbers.
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SEO & AI search
The best free website speed tests, ranked
A vendor-neutral ranking of the best free website speed tests: what each one measures, why lab and field scores disagree, and which fixes matter.
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AI
EU AI Act deadlines after the 2026 omnibus
The digital omnibus moved EU AI Act high-risk duties to December 2027 and August 2028. Article 50 transparency has applied since 2 August 2026.
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Automation
MainWP uptime checks stuck on Last Check
MainWP uptime checks can start but never finish when the multi-cURL path stalls. Here is the debugging path and the one-line fix.
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Compliance
The best free cookie scanners, ranked
A vendor-neutral ranking of the best free cookie scanners: what each one actually checks, which test the consent gate, and which only list cookies.
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Compliance
7 cookie consent mistakes that break GDPR
The cookie consent mistakes we find most often on business sites: tracking before consent, fake reject buttons, undisclosed tools, and US transfers.
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Compliance
Is your cookie banner actually GDPR-compliant?
What the GDPR and the TDDDG require from a cookie banner: consent before tracking, a reject that works, and every tool named in your privacy policy.
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Automation
Structured intake is the first automation step
The highest-leverage automation step is making one recurring workflow start with structured intake: a form with explicit fields, not email or chat.
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AI
AI integration for German SMBs in 2026
What 'AI integration' means for a German SMB in 2026: the four project categories, the DACH-specific layer, and the mistakes that stall deployments.
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Product data
What MDM/PIM solves, and what it doesn't
MDM and PIM defined: what master data and product information systems actually solve, what they don't, and when an SMB needs one.
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Product data
PIM migration checklist: the data layer
The data layer is where PIM migrations get hard. A practical checklist from inventory and schema mapping to post-cutover validation.
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Automation
CRM/ERP integrations: the cost behind the button
A CRM/ERP 'button' is the visible 5% of the integration. The six hidden cost categories behind it, and how to estimate these projects honestly.
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Automation
Business automation with 12 tools and no time
Tool sprawl is a process problem, not a software problem. A practical triage for business automation: keep, consolidate, automate, drop.
