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Structure, discovery, and practice
Short articles on building AI systems that fit industrial and B2B operations—without losing the plot to generic tooling.
June 1, 2026
When AI Becomes the Overhead: Lessons from a $500 Million Monthly Bill
A company spent half a billion dollars on AI in a single month — not from a hack, but because no one was watching. The same pattern hits SMBs at a fraction of the scale, and with less margin to absorb it.
May 28, 2026
The $4,830 Problem: Half Your SaaS Budget Is Working Against You
Zylo analyzed 40 million licenses and found 52.7% sit idle — costing the average organization $21M a year. Here's how one firm audited its way out, and why expertise is a bigger bottleneck than budget.
May 15, 2026
When Your Bot Speaks for You: The Hidden Cost of AI Without Guardrails
Air Canada's chatbot made a promise its policies didn't support — a court made them honor it anyway. What that ruling means for any small business deploying AI without proper controls.
May 12, 2026
How Small Businesses Are Getting More Done with Multi-Agent AI Workflows
Klarna's headline-grabbing AI deployment wasn't one model answering questions — it was a coordinated team of workers handing tasks to each other. That same architecture now runs inside businesses with a dozen employees.
May 8, 2026
MCP Is Quietly Becoming the USB-C of AI Agents
ServiceNow, UiPath, and Cloudflare all shipped native MCP support in the same week — without coordinating. When three enterprise platforms converge on the same protocol simultaneously, a standard is forming.
May 5, 2026
Building a Digital Brain for Your Business: Neural Linkage .md File Structures for AI Memory
A malicious npm package in March 2025 didn't steal a team's code — it rewrote their AI agent's instructions by editing a single markdown file. Here's how to build that architecture deliberately, with the case study of a 77-page operational wiki built for AWS infrastructure management.
May 4, 2026
When your inbox is the attack surface: EchoLeak and enterprise AI trust
EchoLeak (CVE-2025-32711) proved that RAG-based enterprise copilots can be weaponized via a single email — no click required. What the attack reveals about trust boundaries in enterprise AI and what to do about it.
May 2, 2026
When the meter starts: GitHub Copilot's credits model and the vendor lock-in problem
GitHub Copilot's shift to AI credits for advanced features shows how single-vendor AI dependency becomes a procurement trap — and why agnosticism is an architecture decision.
April 29, 2026
Nine seconds, no undo: AI agents and data guardrails
What the PocketOS / Cursor / Railway incident highlights about blast radius, backups, and why best practices matter more when AI can reach production.
March 15, 2026
Welcome to the SaaS Squash blog
What we plan to cover here: file architecture, AI governance, agent news, and lessons from the field.