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Field notes, with receipts.
- Guides
How Much Does It Cost to Automate a Business Process?
Real pricing for small-business automation — market ranges, what a fixed-scope build costs, and what the receipts look like.
Jul 6, 2026 · 6 min read
- Guides
What's the Best Way to Deduplicate Customer Records?
Match on identifying fields, standardize first, and score the result against labeled truth — with real accuracy numbers.
Jul 6, 2026 · 6 min read
- Guides
Should a Startup Use DuckDB Instead of a Cloud Warehouse?
For most startups' data sizes, yes — start free and portable. The honest breakdown of when DuckDB wins and when a cloud warehouse earns its bill.
Jul 6, 2026 · 6 min read
- Guides
How Do You Extract Data From Receipts Automatically?
The pipeline behind automatic receipt extraction — and the accuracy question to ask before trusting any vendor's number.
Jul 6, 2026 · 5 min read
- Data Engineering
Stop rebuilding the whole pipeline
Partition the data, make each load idempotent, and refresh only what changed — measured against a full reload.
Jul 5, 2026 · 5 min read
- Data Analysis
The business boom is real — mostly
US business applications are way up since 2019. A shrinking share look like future employers. Both are true.
Jul 5, 2026 · 5 min read
- AI Automation
Automating the weekly report, end to end
freddyxai's own metrics report on a Monday cron — with honest receipts, including the one we refused to inflate.
Jul 4, 2026 · 4 min read
- Data Engineering
Building a $0 data warehouse
DuckDB + dbt + GitHub Actions: 4,090,836 taxi trips, modeled and tested, on a free cron.
Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min read
- Data Engineering
Cleaning a month of NYC 311 data
The dataset looked clean. Six rules found the 41 rows that weren't — receipts included.
Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min read
- Data Analysis
Cohorts from a million receipts
What a real retailer's 1.07M rows say about retention and revenue — shipped as one live dashboard.
Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min read
- Data Engineering
Fuzzy matching, scored honestly
Deduping records against labeled ground truth — with a train/test split so the score means something.
Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min read
- Guides
How Much Does It Cost to Clean Up Messy Data?
Real pricing for data cleanup — what a one-off costs, what drives it up, and the cheapest way to start.
Jul 3, 2026 · 6 min read
- Guides
What Does a Startup KPI Dashboard Cost?
Real pricing for a startup KPI dashboard — build cost, turnaround, what moves the price, and the cheapest start.
Jul 3, 2026 · 6 min read
- Guides
How Much Does It Cost to Outsource Data Analysis?
Real pricing for data analytics outsourcing — outsourced analysis by project type, range, and turnaround.
Jun 25, 2026 · 7 min read
- Guides
Data Analyst vs. Agency: A Startup Cost Breakdown
What a full-time data analyst really costs a startup versus outsourcing — with the all-in numbers.
Jun 25, 2026 · 7 min read
- GEO
Teaching my company to rank and get cited
The GEO baseline for freddyxai: what I measured, what I'm betting on, and the receipts.
Jun 22, 2026 · 8 min read
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