Insights
Reading documents without sending them to the cloud
First the question of permission, then the question of price. Which documents may leave your network decides the architecture — the bill comes after that.
An AI agent in Slack and Teams: what it actually does, and what we don't let it do
What decides the value of an agent in your chat tool is not how clever the model is, but the access we grant it — and the limits we set ourselves.
What in-house document processing actually costs: GPU, power, upkeep
"In-house" means four different things and each has a different bill. What pays off turns on matching the output to the job, and on who covers failures.
GDPR and AI: when the cloud is fine, and when you need your own infrastructure
"Is AI GDPR-compliant" is a question with no sensible answer. The sensible one is where personal data goes, who receives it and on what basis — everything else in the paperwork follows from that.
A company run by an agent
This is not a theory. Our own company is run day to day by an agent — from the inbox, through research, to publishing. Here is the inventory, the integrations, the bill, and what regularly does not work.
Software with a model needs oversight of the output, not just maintenance
Monitoring tells you the system is running. It does not tell you whether what came back is right. That gap between operational health and the quality of the output is what this piece is about.
Why air-gapping changes everything
A model that cannot see the network cannot leak your data. It is not an add-on — it is the architecture.
Public tender matching with document analysis
An agent that reads notices and specifications, OCRs them at paragraph-level precision, and matches them to a company profile.
Iteration, not polish
Intelligence is not a finished, gleaming object. It is a process without an end.
Invoice automation in a finance team
An agent embedded next to accounting that reads invoices and matches them to orders, exactly where people already work.
What "frontier" actually means
Not model size. Not parameter count. It is about who controls the computation.
Knowledge agent for a support team
An agent with access to a governed document set that answers a support team’s questions on demand.
Private by default, not by option
Security is not a setting you switch on. It is the starting state.
Regulatory compliance monitoring
An agent that tracks regulatory changes and flags the ones that affect a client’s operations.
Contract review at a law firm
An agent that reads contracts at paragraph level and flags risky clauses before signing.
Medical records digitization
Private OCR of medical documents with no page limit — data never leaves the clinic.
Waybill processing in logistics
An agent that reads waybills and invoices, and uses the browser for customs clearance.
Lease agreement indexing
A knowledge base of lease agreements, searchable by agents — without leaving the company.
Plem embedded in a tech team’s Slack
Plem works with the team in Slack, takes over repeatable work and builds internal tools.