The Taku Blog
Ideas worth building on.
Stories, product notes, and perspectives on how AI gets discovered, used, remixed, and shared.
August 13, 2026
Best AI for Business: A Shortlist by Company Stage
Which AI tools are worth paying for depends on your stage, not on feature lists. A named shortlist for solo founders, small teams, and growing companies.
August 13, 2026
Building Got Cheap. Distribution Didn't.
AI made building dramatically easier. But shipping is only half the game. Why distribution, discovery, users, and feedback are becoming the real bottlenecks for AI builders.
August 13, 2026
Generative AI Use Cases That Actually Hold Up in Real Work
Most generative AI use case lists are wishful. Here are the categories that survive contact with real workloads, the ones that don't, and how to tell them apart.
August 13, 2026
iPhone Automations: The Triggers Worth Setting Up First
A practical guide to iPhone automations in Shortcuts — every trigger type, which ones run without asking, and the automation ideas people actually keep using.
August 13, 2026
Marketing Automation Platforms: How to Pick Without Regret
Marketing automation programs cluster into four groups by business model. Which group fits ecommerce, B2B SaaS, and services — and the migration costs nobody mentions.
August 13, 2026
ReAct Agent: The Reason-and-Act Loop Explained
A ReAct agent interleaves reasoning with tool calls in a thought-action-observation loop. What the pattern is, how create_agent implements it, and when it's overkill.
August 13, 2026
Workflow AI Tools Compared: Which No-Code Builder Fits Your Work
A comparison of AI workflow builders and no-code automation platforms — what each is genuinely good at, how the pricing models differ, and which to pick for your situation.
August 13, 2026
Workflow Examples: 8 Real Processes Written Out Step by Step
Concrete workflow examples from hiring, support, content, and finance — written as actual steps, plus the four workflow shapes every process fits into.
August 12, 2026
Agent-Based Modeling: A Practical Introduction
Agent-based modeling simulates individual actors to study emergent behaviour. Core concepts, classic models, the main software, and when ABM beats equations.
August 12, 2026
Agentic Workflows: What They Are and When to Use One
An agentic workflow lets a model decide its own steps. How that differs from a fixed pipeline, the four patterns worth knowing, and when not to use one.
August 12, 2026
AI Agent Builders: No-Code, Low-Code and Custom
How AI agent builders differ, when a no-code platform is enough, and why most problems people call agents are better solved as fixed workflows.
August 12, 2026
AI Employees: What the Term Means and What It Doesn't
"AI employee" is a marketing frame for scoped agents doing specific tasks. What actually works today, what fails, and how to evaluate the claim honestly.
August 12, 2026
Best AI Tools for Business: Picking by Job, Not Hype
A practical guide to choosing AI tools for business — the six jobs they actually do, how to evaluate them, and why most adoption stalls after the trial.
August 12, 2026
Business Process Automation Tools: How to Pick One
A practical comparison of business process automation tools — what integration platforms, RPA, and BPM suites each actually do, and which shape fits your problem.
August 12, 2026
Claude Skills: How They Work and How to Build One
Claude Skills are folders that teach Claude a repeatable task. How progressive disclosure keeps them cheap, where they run, and how to build your first one.
August 12, 2026
What Is an Agent? The Business and Legal Definition
An agent is someone authorised to act on another's behalf. What that means in business and law, the duties it creates, and how it differs from an AI agent.
August 12, 2026
Business Process Automation: Definition and Examples
What business process automation means, how BPA differs from BPM and RPA, and eight concrete examples of processes teams automate first.
August 12, 2026
Enterprise Workflow Automation: How to Evaluate It
What separates enterprise workflow automation from lighter tools — governance, audit, scale — and the evaluation questions that predict whether it works.
August 12, 2026
How to Create Software: A Realistic Path for Beginners
What building software actually involves in 2026 — the four routes from idea to working product, and how to pick one without wasting six months.
August 12, 2026
Integration Software: How to Choose the Right Kind
Integration tools span trigger-based automation, ETL, ESB and point-to-point. What each shape solves, the questions that predict failure, and how to avoid overbuying.
August 12, 2026
Intelligent Process Automation: What It Is and When It Works
Intelligent process automation adds AI to rule-based automation. What IPA actually changes, where it beats RPA, and the tasks it should never own.
August 12, 2026
IT Process Automation: Where to Start and What to Avoid
IT process automation covers provisioning, patching, incident response and more. Which processes to automate first, and the failure modes that cause outages.
August 12, 2026
Offline AI: How to Run AI Models Locally
Running AI locally means no API bills and no data leaving your machine. What hardware you need, which models fit, and where local still loses to the cloud.
August 12, 2026
Low-Code vs No-Code: The Difference That Matters
Low-code and no-code aren't a spectrum of the same thing. Who each is built for, where both hit a ceiling, and how AI has changed the calculation.
