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Practical engineering notes on AI agents, automation pipelines, and making websites legible to language models. The Russian blog is bigger — this is its growing English mirror.
My CRM Is a Folder of Markdown Files. Today I Open-Sourced It
I open-sourced Automata CRM: a self-hosted CRM living in an Obsidian vault of Markdown files, run by AI agents, with a unified Telegram/MAX/email inbox, invoicing and site monitoring. Free, MIT.
Read →Build Your Own X: the 550,000-star repository we recommend to developers and business owners alike
A look at build-your-own-x, a curated list of build-it-from-scratch tutorials: Redis, databases, GPT, a search engine. How it helps our studio and what it gives a business with no deep-tech team.
Read →Space Academy: an AI Tutor Built From a Real School Textbook, One That Teaches Instead of Solving
How I built an AI-powered trainer on top of my second-grader's actual textbook: scan-verified content, the learn method, an LLM mentor that never gives the answer, and a bridge to the paper notebook.
Read →Automata CRM Major Update: A Promotion Control Center, a Content Pipeline, and a Board of Directors That Reads Real Data
The biggest Automata CRM update: semantic core, content gaps, five social networks, and Metrika traffic on one screen. Marketing driven by data, not guesswork.
Read →Domain Renewal Phishing: How to Verify the Invoice in 12 Minutes Before Paying Scammers
A real phishing email dissected: whois domain expiry, SPF/DMARC and the sender — three checks that expose the scam in minutes, plus a 5-point checklist.
Read →Google Got Weird: Why Your Business Site Needs to Be Ready for AI Search
Search is changing: AI answers eat clicks, buyers ask ChatGPT and Neuro. How to prepare your site — GEO/AEO without panic.
Read →Regional SEO Audit of a Bitrix Catalog: How One Database Query Showed the Catalog Was Cut in Half
A regional catalog audit on a real 1C-Bitrix project: 158 cards, three region-assignment states, one query that finds invisible holes in regional visibility.
Read →Email in a CRM That Knows About Money: Letters Linked to Invoices, Acts and Tasks
We built an email client into our CRM: every letter opens next to its invoices, acts, tasks and project history. Multiple mailboxes, full-text search, replies in one click.
Read →An AI Board of Directors in Your CRM: Virtual CEO, CFO and Sales Lead That Ask the Uncomfortable Questions
How we built a virtual board of directors inside our CRM: AI CEO, CFO and sales lead with weekly rituals and hard gates. The owner decides with one click.
Read →A CRM That Does Its Own Bookkeeping: From AI Agent Session to Client Invoice
How our Obsidian-based CRM turns AI agent sessions into time-tracked tasks, and those into invoices and statements — automatic time tracking and billing with zero manual entry.
Read →A Live GEO Auditor and an AI Article Pipeline That Ships Nothing Below an A
We built a live GEO auditor that scores any site for AI-search readiness in 30 seconds — then wired it into our AI article pipeline as a quality gate.
Read →I Set Up a MAX Bot and Channel Without Writing a Single Line of Code: An AI Agent Case Study
How an AI agent in ZCode registered a MAX bot, passed moderation, created a channel, and built a full auto-posting pipeline for a blog — in a single working session. Includes a technical cheat sheet for the MAX Bot API.
Read →Getting Cited by AI Search: A Practical GEO Checklist for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews
Generative Engine Optimization in practice: answer capsules, fact density, Schema.org, llms.txt, and AI crawler access — a working checklist from a live audit tool.
Read →How to Build an SEO Tech Writer Skill for AI Agents: A Complete Guide
Turn expert writing rules into a reusable skill file for coding agents — and get publish-ready, schema-marked technical articles in one request.
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