Sovereign AI on a Synology NAS for a Small Agency
A practical look at what a small agency needs to make a Synology NAS searchable with a local AI stack on a Mac Studio, and what is still undecided.
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When a client asks for SEO and needs GEO
Clients ask for SEO when their real problem is that machines do not understand who they are or where they operate. This is how a small agency sells GEO work without overpromising.
Schema.org markup and entity recognition in 2026
How site-wide Schema.org markup and an llms.txt file shifted Aftertype from vague impressions to clearer entity recognition in 2026.
When a ChatGPT sync bug made my Mac the source of truth
A ChatGPT projects sync bug left my desktop app and the web client disagreeing about reality, so I treated one Mac as the source of truth and reached it remotely.
From hobby banknote app to an enterprise AI pitch
A hobby banknote recognition app with a React Native + Expo camera pipeline grew into a serious AI intake tool and a pitch to a major currency grading company.
Why Littlebird Sits At The Center Of My AI Stack
I cancelled my separate AI subscriptions and centered the stack on Littlebird, with a Mac Studio as a sovereign AI hub and a single context loop.
Letting AI refactor one legacy stylesheet
I pointed an AI model at a 1,200-line legacy Sass file and asked it to refactor everything to Tailwind. The useful part was mechanical syntax cleanup. The risky part was everything that depended on design, layout, and accessibility intent.
A tiny script that adds my internal links
A 40-line Python script adds internal links to my Ghost drafts via a shell alias. It is crude, fast, and only saves minutes, which is exactly why it works.
Three things I delete from almost every AI draft
When I use AI for first drafts, I spend most of my editing time deleting: fake origin stories, forced AI angles, and tidy morals the model invented for me.
The Hour I Lost to a Plausible AI Debugging Answer
A confident AI diagnosis of a React Native hydration issue sent me refactoring the wrong layer for 45 minutes. The real bug was a string "null" in the API.
What My Automated Archive Exposed About My Writing
Reading a batch of AI-written posts in my Ghost archive made the patterns obvious: recycled transitions, invented habits, generic intros, fake closure, and why even a few real notes change the result.
Where Cursor Stops and My Judgment Begins
Cursor is very good at filling in the boring middle. Recent client work showed exactly where that stops, and where experience still has to say no.