For small teams and small organizations — frugal stacks, team-of-one governance, small-shop AI
Most organizations can't compete on AI spend. The strategic question isn't how to spend less than you'd like; it's how to extract disproportionate value from the smaller spend you actually have. Worth being plain about what frugal AI strategy looks like.
What integrating an open-weights model into a small SaaS product actually looks like end to end, the architectural decisions, the operational reality, the cost economics. Less hand-wavy than the typical write-up.
The GPU-as-a-service market consolidated through 2025. The crowded field of neoclouds is smaller than it was; the surviving providers are more differentiated. Worth a survey of who's still around and what they actually cost.
After fifteen accounts and three cycles of OAuth auth fatigue this year, I rebuilt the office stack mostly with open-source self-hosted alternatives. Worth being concrete about what works, what doesn't, and what the trade-off curve actually looks like.
