Solonomous
Resources
Insights from Solonomous on AI strategy, product design, evaluations, and shipping reliable AI to production.
12 updates
Articles
Everything we've written.
12 posts
- 01
Engineering
What Is Forward Deployed Engineering? A Guide for Businesses
Forward deployed engineering places a senior engineer inside your organisation, with commit rights, to take one named workflow from prototype to production. This guide explains what the role is, how it differs from consulting and staff augmentation, and when it is the wrong call.
Read more - 02
ERP & Operations
ERP Software for SMEs: What Growing Businesses Should Look For
ERP software for SMEs is bought at the point where a growing company, somewhere between a few dozen and a few hundred people, can no longer run on spreadsheets and a stack of disconnected tools. This guide covers what a small or medium enterprise actually needs, in what order, and the questions to ask before signing.
Read more - 03
ERP & Operations
HRMS and Payroll Software: Getting PF, ESI and TDS Right
HRMS payroll software in India has to compute provident fund, state insurance, professional tax and TDS correctly every month, and most errors trace back to the employee data the run started from. This guide explains the statutory stack, where runs go wrong, and what a compliant pay run looks like.
Read more - 04
ERP & Operations
CRM and Invoicing Software: Why Sales and Receivables Need One Record
CRM and invoicing software are usually bought separately, and the seam between them is where deals get re-keyed, invoices go out late and finance learns what was sold when the cash arrives. This post follows a quote from signature to matched payment and shows what changes when both run on one record.
Read more - 05
ERP & Operations
Bank Reconciliation Software: How Automated Matching Closes the Month Faster
Bank reconciliation software matches every line on the statement to the invoice, bill or transfer it settles, as it lands rather than at month end. This is how automated matching works, what it changes about the close, and how SoloOne does it.
Read more - 06
ERP & Operations
Inventory Management Software for Multi-Location Businesses
Inventory management software earns its keep when stock is spread across warehouses, depots, vans and a shop floor, and a sale is promised before anyone checks where the units are. This guide covers live stock by location, transfers, scanning, replenishment and work orders, and how SoloOne handles them on one ledger.
Read more - 07
AI & Automation
RAG Pipelines for Enterprise: A Practical Implementation Guide
A RAG pipeline is only as good as the passages that reach the model, and most of the engineering that decides that happens before a prompt is written. This guide walks through ingestion, chunking, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking, grounding, evaluation and access control in the order you should build them.
Read more - 08
AI & Automation
AI Agents for Business Operations: Where Agentic Automation Pays Off
AI agents for business are worth the cost on a narrow class of work: multi-step jobs with messy input, a checkable result and a path that changes case by case. This post defines what an agent is, where it pays off in operations, where it should never be used, and how the three agents in SoloOne are built.
Read more - 09
AI & Automation
RPA vs Custom Automation: Which One Should Your Business Choose?
RPA vs custom automation is less a technology choice than a question about the process you are automating: is the path fixed and the input clean, or does it vary? This guide sets out where each approach fits, what each costs to run and change, and why most production deployments end up using both.
Read more - 10
Software Development
Custom Enterprise Software: When to Build Instead of Buy
Custom enterprise software development makes sense at a specific moment: when the workaround around the packaged system has quietly become the process. This guide sets out the signals that a build is the cheaper answer, what each path really costs, and how to stage a build so the business can absorb it.
Read more - 11
Software Development
Mobile App Development Cost and Timeline: What Businesses Should Expect
Mobile app development cost is driven by a handful of decisions made before anyone writes code: how many platforms, how much backend, which integrations and how much of the workflow the app has to carry. This guide walks through those drivers and the timeline of each phase, from discovery to maintenance.
Read more - 12
AI & Automation
Office Workflow Automation: 10 Processes Worth Automating First
Workflow automation pays off fastest on the office processes nobody owns end to end: the shared inbox, the monthly reconciliation, the onboarding checklist held together by reminders. Here are ten processes worth automating first, why each earns its place, and what keeps the automation running after week one.
Read more
Topics
Browse by topic.
ERP & Operations5
- ERP Software for SMEs: What Growing Businesses Should Look For
- HRMS and Payroll Software: Getting PF, ESI and TDS Right
- CRM and Invoicing Software: Why Sales and Receivables Need One Record
- Bank Reconciliation Software: How Automated Matching Closes the Month Faster
- Inventory Management Software for Multi-Location Businesses
AI & Automation4
Talk to us
Have a project in mind?
One conversation to scope it. One team from first screen to launch.