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13/08/2026

WASTED TIME IS MONEY TOO

When companies talk about reducing costs, the same areas usually come up: salaries, procurement, external services, or software licences.

Yet one of the biggest costs of running a business often doesn't appear as a separate line in the financial statements.

It's a cost when an employee spends thirty minutes every day copying data between different systems. It's a cost when a proposal sits in someone's inbox for days waiting for approval. It's a cost when multiple people search for the same information over and over again. And it's a cost when a manager spends hours every Monday compiling reports instead of focusing on real business decisions.

Individually, these may seem like minor inefficiencies.

But across an entire organisation, those wasted minutes and hours quickly add up. Over the course of a year, they can amount to hundreds or even thousands of lost working hours.

That's why the value of a software solution or digital transformation should never be judged solely by its implementation cost.

An equally important question is how much time, how many errors, and how much unnecessary work it will eliminate over the years ahead.

Because in many cases, the most expensive cost isn't what appears on the invoice.

It's the time that quietly disappears every single day.

If you'd like your team to spend less time on unnecessary administration and more time creating value, let's talk and shape the future together 🤖

András Biró - CEO | DevZone
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11/08/2026

DOES YOUR COMPANY STILL RUN WHEN SOMEONE IS ON VACATION?

In many companies, there are employees who seem almost indispensable. They know how to coordinate with each business partner, which file contains the latest information, or which exception rules apply to a particular process. At first glance, this may even seem like an advantage, as these are experienced and reliable colleagues.

The problem arises when these people go on vacation, take sick leave, or simply move on to another job.

That's when processes suddenly begin to slow down. Decisions are delayed, projects fall behind schedule, more and more questions arise, and even tasks that once seemed routine start getting stuck.

This is not the employees' fault.

Rather, it is a sign that the company's operations rely too heavily on individual knowledge.

A well-designed business system doesn't diminish the value of employees. Instead, it reduces this risk. Processes are documented, information is accessible to everyone, and tasks are easy to track, so the business doesn't come to a halt simply because one person is unavailable.

The most successful companies are not stable because they have indispensable people.

They are stable because they have built an organisation where no one has to be irreplaceable.

If you're looking to reduce operational risk and build a more resilient business, let's talk and shape the future together 🤖

András Biró - CEO | DevZone
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03/08/2026

HOW DOES A SOFTWARE PROJECT BECOME A REAL BUSINESS ADVANTAGE?

Implementing a new system doesn't automatically create a business advantage. Just as a new production line, a new office, or a new salesperson doesn't guarantee growth on its own.

The real question is how a software project changes the way a business operates every day. Does it give leaders faster access to the information they need? Does it make processes more transparent? Does it improve collaboration? Does it enable quicker responses to customer needs or changing market conditions?

The real business value doesn't come from the system itself. It comes from the better decisions and more efficient ways of working that the system makes possible.

That's why two companies can use exactly the same technology and achieve completely different outcomes. For one, it becomes a genuine competitive advantage. For the other, it's simply another system added to an already crowded technology stack.

The most successful software projects are usually driven by business objectives rather than technology objectives. The starting point isn't which features we want. It's which business problems we want to solve, and what we want our organisation to look like in a few years' time.

In the long run, success won't belong to the company using the most technology. It will belong to the one that turns technology into business results most effectively.

If you're considering a software project that creates a real competitive advantage, let's talk and shape the future together. 🤖

András Biró - CEO | DevZone
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30/07/2026

THINKING MACHINES LAB UNVEILS ITS FIRST AI MODEL

Over the past few weeks, we've written several times about how the focus of AI is gradually shifting away from the models themselves. We first witnessed the race to build the most capable models, followed by an increasing emphasis on AI systems and how they integrate into business operations. More recently, another trend has become increasingly clear: cost efficiency is becoming just as important as raw technological performance.

The launch of Thinking Machines Lab's first model fits perfectly into this broader shift.

Rather than claiming to have built the world's most powerful AI system, the company focuses its message on a different idea: in the long run, businesses may gain more value from AI systems tailored to their own operations than from general-purpose chatbots.

It's an interesting perspective. After all, the way a bank operates is fundamentally different from the way a manufacturing company or a logistics provider works. The knowledge that creates a genuine competitive advantage is rarely found on the public internet. It's embedded in internal processes, documentation, proprietary data, and the experience of employees.

As a result, more and more organisations are asking whether every task truly requires the largest and most powerful AI models. In many cases, a system designed specifically around a company's operations may deliver greater business value while being more affordable, more secure, and easier to operate predictably.

This becomes even more interesting as an increasing number of major technology companies begin discussing AI cost optimisation. As AI becomes part of everyday business operations, the long-term sustainability of operating these systems becomes just as important as their capabilities.

Perhaps the next big question in AI won't be about model performance.

Instead, it will be about how effectively organisations can use AI to support their own operations, processes, and accumulated knowledge.

In the future, companies are unlikely to be differentiated simply by whether they use AI. The real differentiator will be how naturally and effectively AI becomes part of the way they operate.

If you'd like AI to create real business value in your organisation, let's talk and shape the future together 🤖

András Biró - CEO | DevZone
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We don't have clients - we have partners

27/07/2026

IT'S NOT ALWAYS ABOUT WORKING LESS

When companies start thinking about digital transformation or custom software development, the same expectation often comes up: less administration, fewer manual tasks, and less time wasted on repetitive work.

While these are certainly important goals, they don't automatically translate into business success.

If an employee spends one hour less each day on administrative work, the company doesn't become more successful by default. The real question is: what happens with that extra hour?

Does it create more time for customers? Faster decision-making? The ability to deliver more projects with the same team? More capacity for business development, sales, or innovation?

The most successful companies don't usually grow faster because their people work harder. They grow because they create more value within the same amount of time.

That's why the purpose of a well-designed system isn't simply to reduce the amount of work people have to do. It's to ensure that a greater share of their time is spent on activities that genuinely move the business forward.

In the long run, competitive advantage won't come from how many hours we work. It will come from how much real business value we create with the time available.

If you'd like your business to spend more time creating real value, let's talk and shape the future together 🤖

András Biró - CEO | DevZone
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17/07/2026

THE MOST IMPORTANT NUMBER IS NOT THE COST OF DEVELOPMENT

Imagine a company receiving a proposal for a custom software development project worth eight million forints.

The initial reaction is often completely understandable. That is a significant amount of money. However, this number alone says nothing about whether the investment is a good or a bad decision.

When a company purchases a new production line, opens a new facility, or launches a new business unit, nobody looks exclusively at the amount of the investment. The real question is always the same. What value will this investment add to the business? What results do we expect from it? How quickly will it pay for itself?

Interestingly, when it comes to software development, companies often focus solely on the price tag.

Yet a well-designed system is also an investment. It can be considered successful if it generates measurable business results. If it reduces costs, accelerates operations, increases revenue, or enables the company to serve more customers with the same team.

Of course, development alone is not enough. For an investment to truly pay off, clear business objectives, well-designed processes, and clearly defined expectations are required. Technology by itself rarely solves business problems.

And there is another aspect that is often left out of the equation.

The cost of current operations.

Wasted working hours, manual tasks, and lost business opportunities all come with a cost. The difference is that these costs do not appear on a single invoice. Instead, they gradually become embedded in the company's operations day after day.

That is why, when making decisions about software development, price is only one part of the equation. The other important question is how much value the investment is capable of creating.

If you are considering a development project that can deliver real business results, let's talk and shape the future together 🤖

András Biró - CEO | DevZone
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15/07/2026

IT IS TIME FOR CONTROLLING IN AI AS WELL

Last week, we wrote about how the era of systems is following the era of models in AI development. One of Microsoft's recent decisions already seems to indicate what the next step will be.

According to reports, the company is increasingly using its own proprietary models alongside OpenAI and Anthropic solutions for certain AI features in Word and Excel. Many interpreted this as Microsoft distancing itself from OpenAI.

We believe that this misses the point.

Microsoft is not replacing external models. It continues to use them, but wherever it makes business sense, it substitutes them with its own models. One of the main reasons behind this is cost.

As long as only a few thousand users need to be served, the cost of an AI model rarely becomes a strategic issue. However, when hundreds of millions or even billions of AI requests need to be processed every day, the cost of every single response starts to matter. At that scale, even minor optimizations can result in significant savings.

This clearly shows that AI is increasingly becoming business infrastructure.

Just as companies continuously optimize their energy consumption, logistics costs, or manufacturing processes, the cost of operating AI will eventually become a leadership issue as well. For every task, companies will seek the solution that provides the required performance in the most efficient way.

This will likely be the next phase of AI development. First came the competition between models. Now systems are being built. In the coming years, increasing attention will be paid to how cost-effectively these systems can be operated.

If you would like AI to create real business value in your company as well, let's talk 🤖

András Biró - CEO | DevZone
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We don't have clients - we have partners

13/07/2026

GROWTH REQUIRES MORE THAN JUST PEOPLE

Many business leaders experience the same thing when their company starts to grow. There are more tasks, more clients, yet somehow operations seem to slow down. Decisions take longer, there is more coordination, information becomes harder to find, and more and more time is spent on activities that previously went almost unnoticed.

In these situations, the natural reaction is often to think about hiring new employees. In many cases, however, the real problem is not a lack of people, but the fact that the company's operations can no longer keep pace with its size.

Most processes do not become ineffective overnight. There simply comes a point where what worked perfectly for a team of ten starts to create unnecessary waiting times, parallel work, and information loss when the company grows to thirty or fifty people. An Excel spreadsheet turns into multiple versions, approvals have to pass through several people, and the same data ends up being entered into multiple systems.

Individually, these issues may seem insignificant. A few minutes here, a few minutes there. Over the course of months, however, these minutes turn into hundreds of working hours, while leaders often only notice that everything is moving more slowly than before.

Growth therefore has not only a business dimension but also an operational one. For a company to remain efficient in the long term, it is worth rethinking its processes from time to time and building systems that support daily operations instead of slowing them down.

In most cases, people are not the bottleneck. The real bottleneck lies in processes that can no longer keep pace with the company's development.

If you also feel that reaching the next level requires not more people but better operations, let's talk and shape the future together 🤖

András Biró - CEO | DevZone
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We don't have clients - we have partners

10/07/2026

THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF A SOFTWARE PROJECT HAPPENS BEFORE THE FIRST LINE OF CODE

Many companies see software development as the next step in their growth. Build a new system, automate a few processes, and the business will become more efficient.

In reality, software alone doesn't make a company grow.

Growth is driven by the leadership decisions made before and during the development process.

What processes do we want to establish? Who is responsible for what? Where are decisions made? Which data can be considered reliable? Which metrics should we use to measure performance? What business objective should the system ultimately support?

A well-prepared software project doesn't allow these questions to be overlooked.

In many cases, this is where the greatest value of the project lies. Together, we map existing operations, clarify responsibilities, establish a shared understanding of key concepts, and define the business goals the system needs to support.

Once this shared thinking takes place, the software becomes much more than an IT tool. It becomes a system that reflects the same goals, processes, and business rules that the leadership team has agreed upon.

That's why we believe the best software projects actually begin long before the first line of code is written. They begin when a shared vision is created for how the company wants to operate.

The software brings that vision to life. Growth, however, comes from the deliberate leadership decisions on which the system is built.

If you're thinking about a software project that delivers more than just a new system - one that also helps your business operate more intentionally - we'd be happy to talk 🤖

András Biró - CEO | DevZone
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We don't have clients - we have partners

08/07/2026

AFTER THE AGE OF MODELS COMES THE AGE OF SYSTEMS

Over the past few days, many articles have been published about Mistral AI. Most of them focus on how capable its models are, whether it can catch up with OpenAI, or which AI system is currently the most powerful.

But in our view, that's not the most interesting part of the story.

Mistral is placing increasing emphasis on helping companies and public sector organizations implement AI systems, tailor them to their own data, and integrate them into their day-to-day operations. The focus is shifting away from the model itself and toward how it creates real business value.

This clearly shows where the industry is heading.

The past two years have largely been about which AI model can do more. The coming years will probably be about something else entirely. As models become more advanced and more widely available, the differences between them will continue to shrink.

The real question will be what a company actually does with them.

How do they connect to existing systems? What data can they access? Which business processes do they support? What decisions do they help prepare? How seamlessly do they fit into everyday operations?

That is what turns AI into a true business tool.

This is why, in every AI project, we look beyond choosing the right model. We also focus on how the technology can become a natural part of the company's operations. Because in the long run, success won't belong to the company using the "best" AI model. It will belong to the one that integrates AI most effectively into its own processes.

If you'd like AI to create real business value in your company, let's talk 🤖

András Biró - CEO | DevZone
[email protected]
We don't have clients - we have partners

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