Apps & Tools
The Day You Outgrow a Project Tool's Free Tier
Six project tools, one spreadsheet: I checked each free plan's actual limit and what the smallest paid tier costs per seat, per year. The surprises are in the climbing costs.
Apps & Tools
How Much Cloud Storage Is Actually Free, and What the Next Dollar Buys
Seven cloud services, compared: what the free tier really gives you, what the first paid tier costs a year, and why a 5 GB default is an upsell.
Apps & Tools
The Annual Discount Is a Loan You Make to Your Vendor
Twenty percent off for paying yearly sounds like free money. Priced as what it actually is — an interest-free loan with a cancellation penalty — it is a much narrower deal.
Apps & Tools
We Tried to Cut Every Tool for a Month and Learned Which Four We Actually Cannot
An audit tells you what you pay for. Turning each one off for a week tells you what you need. The results did not match my predictions in six cases out of fourteen.
AI in Practice
The Two-Minute Check I Run Before Acting on a Machine's Answer
I sent a client a wrong number that a tool gave me confidently. Here is the check I built afterwards, and the category of question it will not save you from.
Security & Privacy
A Password Manager Is the One Tool Nobody Argues About — So We Tested Whether It Deserves That
1Password at three seats for four months, including the migration nobody warns you about and the one feature that turned out to matter more than the vault.
Tech for the Rest of Us
The Backup Setup I Would Give a Friend Who Has None
Not the ideal one. The one that takes forty minutes, costs about £3 a month, and covers the failure that actually happens to people.
Security & Privacy
Fastmail vs Proton Mail for a Business Inbox, After Moving Twice
We migrated to one, disliked something specific, migrated to the other, and found a different specific problem. Here is the honest split for a small business address.
Apps & Tools
The Real Cost of Moving a Team Off a Tool Is Not the Migration
We budgeted two weeks for the data and got it done in three days. Then spent five weeks on the part nobody schedules — every integration, habit, and link that pointed at the old thing.
Gadget Reviews
I Spent Two Years Upgrading the Wrong Half of My Desk
Four monitors, three chairs, and the £90 accessory that did more for my working day than any of them. A note on where the returns actually are.
Apps & Tools
The SaaS Pricing Audit I Run Before Any Trial (It Caught a $4,200 Surprise)
A 20-minute checklist for finding the real cost of a SaaS tool before you start a trial — seats, add-ons, overage, and the traps pricing pages hide.
Apps & Tools
The Quarterly Stack Audit That Takes Ninety Minutes and Has Never Not Paid For Itself
A repeatable process for going through every piece of software a small team pays for, in one sitting, with a decision at the end of each line.
AI in Practice
I Logged Every Time I Used an AI Tool for a Month. Two Uses Were Worth It.
Forty-one logged uses, honestly timed against doing it myself. The wins were narrow, real, and not the ones I expected.
Apps & Tools
Six Months on Linear, Including the Two Weeks We Nearly Went Back
Linear is fast in a way that changes how a team files work. It is also opinionated in ways that cost us a fortnight — here is what held up after half a year of real use.