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What we learn building AI tools for real businesses — written in plain language, with real examples. No hype, no names.

Business & compliance

6 August 2026·5 min read

Claude Enterprise now blocks sensitive data in real time: what that choice reveals for your business

On August 5, 2026, Anthropic launched inference hooks: every prompt sent to Claude Enterprise passes through the company’s own security server, which can block it before it reaches the model. A strong signal on the shadow AI risk — and what an SME without an Enterprise budget can do instead.

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Business & compliance

5 August 2026·5 min read

AI Act Article 4: your staff’s AI training becomes enforceable from August 2, 2026

Since August 2, 2026, national authorities — the CNIL in France — can inspect and sanction compliance with Article 4 of the AI Act, the “AI literacy” obligation that applies to every company using an AI tool, with no headcount threshold. What this deadline actually changes, and how to document your compliance before an audit.

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Chatbots & assistants

4 August 2026·5 min read

AI chatbot for restaurants: what your QR code menu still can’t do

An AI chatbot for restaurants answers questions about dishes and allergens straight from the same QR code menu — where a QR code alone, according to two recent studies, can actually cost you regular customers. What changes, and how to deploy it without risk.

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Studio notes

3 August 2026·4 min read

Studio notes — agents built to be checked

This week the agent fleet added a human review queue to an email agent for a courier company, and restructured a compliance audit into verifiable steps for a training organization. Two builds, one lesson: an AI agent is only as good as your ability to check what it did.

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Business & compliance

3 August 2026·4 min read

Cold calling in France: prior consent becomes mandatory from August 11, 2026

Decree n° 2026-662 of July 23, 2026 shifts commercial phone prospecting from an opt-out system (Bloctel) to prior consumer consent from August 11, 2026. Any SMB calling consumers to sell must now prove an explicit, dated, retained agreement — or risk fines up to €375,000 and void contracts.

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Business & compliance

2 August 2026·5 min read

EU AI Act: transparency rules apply today, but France still hasn’t named who enforces them

On August 2, 2026, the AI Act’s Article 50 transparency obligations become fully applicable — disclose that a chatbot is AI, no exceptions. What most SMB owners miss: France still hasn’t designated the national authority meant to police any of this, a year after its own deadline to do so. Here is what that void changes, and what it does not.

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