Notes from the studio

The Suvysoft blog.

Field notes from a Kansas City studio working with owners. Marketing experiments, engineering trade-offs, AI deployments.

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AI

How to Give an AI Agent Data Access Without the Risk

Most AI agent problems start with too much access, not a clever attack. Here's how to scope permissions so one credential can't reach everything.

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AI

AI evals and guardrails: is your assistant making things up?

How to prove an AI assistant is accurate before it talks to customers: a 20-question test set, four numbers to track monthly, and what to put in the contract.

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AI

Six Jobs to Hand an AI Agent First

The six tasks small businesses should automate first with an AI agent, ranked by payoff, with real setup costs and what to leave for later.

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AI

What an AI Agent Costs to Build and Run in 2026

Real build and monthly costs for AI agents in 2026, broken down by scope, plus why most published price ranges are for projects far bigger than yours.

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AI

Data Prep Before AI Setup: What It Actually Takes

Data prep is the part of an AI project nobody budgets for. Here's what to gather, clean, and secure before an agent touches your business.

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AI

AI Agent vs Automation vs Chatbot: How to Choose

AI agents, automation, and chatbots solve different problems. Here is the decision table we walk owners through before recommending any of the three.

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AI

AI Setup for a Business That's Never Used It: The First 90 Days

A week-by-week plan for a business trying AI for the first time. One pilot, one metric, ninety days, before you spend on anything bigger.

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MARKETING

The AI search optimization checklist for Kansas City sites

Only 38% of pages cited in Google's AI Overviews rank in the top 10. Here is the twelve item AI search optimization checklist we run, and three items to skip.

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APPS

Cross-Platform vs Native App Development in Kansas City

Cross-platform frameworks like Flutter and React Native cost less and ship faster than building two native apps. Here is when that tradeoff is worth it, and when it isn't.

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