Practical guides.
Concrete checklists, calculators, questions to ask. Short, to the point, no corporate jargon.
- AX/G/008
Residential vs datacenter proxy: when which
Decision matrix for someone commissioning scraping but not buying proxy themselves. Price, quality, detection rate, typical use cases — no technical jargon.
- AX/G/007
Slack alerts for automation: practical setup
Webhook vs Bot API, routing per priority, the "47 alerts per day" anti-pattern. Concrete templates that work from day one.
- AX/G/006
Anti-bot detection: what Cloudflare does and how Playwright handles it
Guide for non-developers. How sites detect bots, what major systems use, why "just add a user-agent" stopped working long ago.
- AX/G/003
Zapier / Make.com vs custom automation: when to migrate
No-code platforms are great for starting. When they start to hurt — and what to actually rewrite on your own stack.
- AX/G/009
How to write an automation brief and get a good quote
Most briefs we receive are "we need automation of X, how much?". 10 fields that allow quoting in 24h instead of 2 weeks of discovery.
- AX/G/001
How to pick an automation vendor: 8 questions
Concrete questions that separate a real engineering studio from no-code "automation experts".
- AX/G/004
GDPR and scraping: what you can, what you cannot
Practical guide for a small business without in-house legal. No "consult a lawyer" — concrete rules that apply.
- AX/G/002
Manual work audit: how much time you actually waste
Simple 30-minute calculation method. Concrete thresholds — when automation pays off, when manual work is cheaper.
- AX/G/005
Your first automation retainer: 12-point checklist
What must be in the retainer contract so you are not surprised in 6 months. Practical list, no legal jargon.