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    <title><![CDATA[The Median IT Project Comes In On Budget]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The real economics of software projects: why the median project lands on budget, where the catastrophic risk actually lives, and which widely-quoted cost statistics have no source at all.]]></description>
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    <title>Everyone Bought AI. Almost Nobody Bought Results.</title>
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    <description>Nine in ten organisations now use AI — yet only about 6% report significant earnings impact from it, and while 64% of OECD countries run generative AI, fewer than a third measure whether it worked. Here is what separates the two groups, and how Kaizen Spark Tech builds for the second one.</description>
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    <description>Per-message pricing, template categories, BSP markup and the line items most WhatsApp quotes leave out. Written for people budgeting a build, not buying a demo.</description>
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    <title>Map the process before you quote it</title>
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    <description>An estimate produced before anyone has watched the work happen is a guess with a budget attached. What discovery contains, and why it makes the build cheaper.</description>
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    <description>One bank credit, hundreds of orders, fees and refunds inside it. How to reconcile Razorpay settlements automatically and surface the exceptions.</description>
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    <title>What we put in a handover pack</title>
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    <description>Architecture notes, environment setup, runbooks and secret rotation. The test: can an engineer who never worked on the project operate it without a meeting?</description>
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    <title>When automation is the wrong answer</title>
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    <description>Automation multiplies whatever it is pointed at. Three situations where we tell clients to fix the process first and quote for less work than they asked for.</description>
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    <title>Google Apps Script is not a toy</title>
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    <description>Treated as a real platform — version control, error handling, quota awareness — Apps Script carries more production load than people expect. And where it stops.</description>
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