The SayDoo Think Tank
Think Pieces.
Essays on AI, trust, data and the future of the trades.
Our Moat Is Your Moat: Why SayDoo Members Learn Faster Than Any Company Alone
In software, the moat usually keeps you in. We built ours the other way around: every person in your company is a node, every member outside your market is a teacher, and what works gets built into your console.
The AI Console Is Software You Own: Your Company's AI, on Any Model
An AI console is your company's own software, built from the way you work and running on your own data, that can use any AI model, open-source or commercial. The models will keep changing. What you own is what lasts.
The 9 p.m. Lead: What Happens to the Calls a Trade Business Misses
The homeowner with water coming through the ceiling doesn't wait for business hours. They call the next roofer on the list. Here is what happens to the leads that arrive after the office goes home, and how to stop losing them.
The Seat Tax: Why Per-Seat Software Pricing Punishes Growing Trade Businesses
Every time you hire, your software bill goes up. Every new tool you add, the same people get charged again. Per-seat pricing turns growth into a penalty, and trade businesses feel it more than anyone.
What Is an AI Console? A Plain Guide for Trade Business Owners
Not a chatbot, not another app. An AI console is one place where you say what the business needs, and the business does it. Here is what that means for a roofing, HVAC, plumbing or electrical company.
The Trust Problem: Can Artificial Intelligence Ever Trust?
What if artificial intelligence never becomes truly intelligent because it cannot trust?
Talk to Your Company: Why the AI Console Replaces the Software Screen
For forty years, business software made the owner learn its screens. An AI console turns that around. You say what you want, and the company answers.
The Truck Still Rolls: Automation and the Future of the Trades
Automation is not coming for the roof, the pipe or the panel. It is coming for the second job every tradesperson works, the one that starts after dark at the kitchen table.
Big Tech Wants Your Book: AI, Small Business and Who Owns the Data
The largest software companies on earth are racing to sell AI to small businesses. Before you hand over the one asset you can't rebuild, read the terms.
Stop renting your own business.
Ten rules for trade businesses done renting software by the seat.