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What we learn shipping AI automation, apps, product design, websites and SEO for clients: costs, timelines, mistakes to avoid and what actually moves the numbers.

SEO & GEO

GEO, AEO and AI Search: A Glossary of 12 Terms for 2026

Twelve AI search terms from agency pitches, each defined in one sentence and checked against Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and Microsoft docs, with what it means for a business site and what to do, if anything.

Artsiom Yankovich

· 14 min read

Websites

How to Choose a Web Design Agency: A Checklist for 2026

Three proposals, three prices and usually three different jobs. What to test in a portfolio, what each proposal should spell out, the US and UAE rules on accessibility and privacy, and five red flags.

Artsiom Yankovich

· 14 min read

SEO & GEO

How Much Does SEO Cost in 2026? A Guide for the US and UAE

Market figures for US SEO retainers and hourly rates, each with its source and sample, and what to check in a UAE quote. Why quotes differ tenfold, what moves the price, where GEO fits and the red flags Google lists.

Artsiom Yankovich

· 14 min read

Strategy & MVP

Do You Need a Website If Clients Find You on Instagram?

An honest answer for owners who sell well through DMs: when social-only selling is enough, when it starts to cost you clients, and the one-page site that covers the gap.

Viacheslav Kasatkin

· 12 min read

SEO & GEO

SEO & GEO Audit Checklist: What to Check in 2026

Nine areas to check, one tool and one pass mark for each, and an order that fits into a single working day. Built on Google, OpenAI and web.dev documentation, not on guesses about AI.

Artsiom Yankovich

· 14 min read

AI Automation

n8n, Make or Zapier vs a Custom AI Agent: When to Switch

Each platform bills a different unit, so plan prices don't compare. We count one workflow three ways, quote n8n's license and list the six signals that an agent has outgrown no-code.

Artem Zelenskii

· 14 min read

AI Automation

WhatsApp AI Agent for UAE Business: 2026 Rules & Costs

Meta bans AI offered as the product on WhatsApp and charges for replies again. What a UAE business may automate, what it costs in AED from October 2026 and how to keep a person in the loop.

Artem Zelenskii

· 14 min read

SEO & GEO

Programmatic SEO Case Study: 2,600+ Pages, 32 Hubs, No Spam

We turned an Austrian restaurant guide into a data product: one score from four guides, a page per venue and a ranked hub per state and district. Here is the model, and where Google's spam line sits.

Artsiom Yankovich

· 14 min read

AI Automation

How Much Does an AI Agent Cost in 2026? Build and Run

Market ranges for the build, a run-cost formula worked on Anthropic and OpenAI list prices, and what five AI and ML projects we built show about where the money goes.

Artem Zelenskii

· 14 min read

Product Design

Fintech Dashboard Design: From Prototype to Partner-Ready

What a partner's ops team checks in a payout product (roles, statuses, bulk uploads, trust signals) and how we took NVP's prototype to a partner-ready dashboard in 15 days.

Artsiom Yankovich

· 14 min read

iOS Development

Swift vs Flutter vs React Native: 2026 Founder’s Guide

Choose a mobile stack by your feature list and your team, not by benchmarks. Our Head of Mobile on where Swift is required, where one codebase pays off and when an app can wait.

Vladimir Babin

· 13 min read

Strategy & MVP

Software Development Brief Template: 1-Page MVP Brief

The one page you send before anyone quotes: a copy-ready template, a worked example for an invented MVP, and the scope, budget and ownership lines teams need to give you a real answer.

Viacheslav Kasatkin

· 13 min read

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