Application Notes
Datasheets ship application notes alongside the part: short documents on how the thing is actually used. These are mine, written from shipped work.
- AN-001Suite06 Aug 2026
How do you build POS pricing for a market where haggling is normal?
Give every item three prices instead of one: a cost price, a target price the seller opens at, and a floor price the till will not go below. Sales staff then negotiate freely inside that band without needing a manager, and without any single sale going below margin. Price changes are audited, so the floor cannot quietly drift.
- AN-002Solar AI06 Aug 2026
How do you ground an AI assistant in a real product catalogue?
Stop the model inventing products by giving it only the catalogue as its source of truth: it sizes the customer's requirement, then selects from stock the business actually holds, at that market's real prices. The recommendation becomes an order the company can fulfil, rather than a plausible-sounding answer nobody can sell.
- AN-003Suite06 Aug 2026
Should device retail track stock by SKU or by IMEI?
By unit. A phone is not interchangeable with another of the same model: it has its own IMEI, its own condition, its own acquisition cost and its own warranty position. Counting devices by SKU hides all four, and every problem that matters in device retail lives in the difference between two units of the same model.
- AN-004Suite06 Aug 2026
Why should a Nigerian retailer send receipts over WhatsApp?
Because that is where the customer already is, and because a paper receipt from a market stall is lost within the week. A WhatsApp receipt survives, is searchable by the customer months later when they need warranty proof, and gives the shop a contact thread it can sell into again. Thermal printing still matters, so support it alongside rather than instead.
- AN-005Solar AI · MadeSongs06 Aug 2026
Is it worth building native Android and iOS apps instead of cross-platform?
Yes, when the apps are thin over a well-specified backend. Most of the cost people attribute to going native is really the cost of designing the same behaviour twice; if the server owns the rules and both clients consume one contract, what is left is the UI layer, where native is faster to build well and considerably better to use.
- AN-006Solar AI06 Aug 2026
What do you need to ask before quoting a solar system?
What the customer wants to keep running, for how long without mains power, and what they can spend. Everything technical follows from those three answers: the load determines inverter size, the runtime determines battery capacity, and the budget determines which of the two gets compromised. Customers cannot state a load, so the job is translating what they describe into one.
- AN-007Solar AI · MadeSongs06 Aug 2026
What else has to ship when you launch a mobile app?
The build is the smallest part. A launch also needs store presence on two platforms, signing and release tracks configured correctly, deep links that survive install, a referral path, and enough web presence that the product is findable by people who will never browse an app store. Teams routinely finish the app and then discover the launch is another month of work.
- AN-008BuildPCBs06 Aug 2026
What would an AI-native tool for hardware design look like?
It would treat a circuit the way a code editor treats a program: something you describe intent against and iterate on, with the tool holding the constraints. Hardware design still runs largely on manual placement and routing in tools built before AI assistance existed, which is why the same shift that reached software editors has barely touched the board.