Breakdowns, not news

We only write about what we took apart ourselves while building our own machines. Every article is about one law, one market or one process: with dates, numbers and the line past which we do not know.

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Websites · 9 min read

Landing page or website: which one a business needs and how they differ

Landing page or multi-page website: what a landing page is in plain words, what a business card site is, how both differ from a company website and a catalogue, what to choose for advertising one service, for search traffic and for a catalogue, how a landing page relates to SEO, a quiz or a Telegram button, and how to pair a landing page with a Telegram bot.

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Websites · 10 min read

Tilda, WordPress or a coded website: an honest comparison for businesses in 2026

Tilda or WordPress, Tilda or Webflow, a website builder or a hand-coded site: plan prices as of 1 October 2026, speed measured on real visitors, SEO, whether you can take your site with you, WordPress security, paying from Uzbekistan and who will edit the text. Plus a verdict on what suits whom.

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Websites · 9 min read

How to build a website with AI: what you get for free in an evening, and where the traps are

You can build a website with AI in 2026, even for free. What Wix, Tilda, Lovable, Bolt and v0 can do according to their official pages as of 1 October 2026, what free plans leave out, and where the traps are: generic design, invented facts, the Uzbek language, code and hosting on someone else's platform, SEO, personal data in forms. An evening-long step-by-step plan, and signs it is time to hire a developer.

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Motion design · 8 min read

Motion design: what it is in plain words, business examples and how a video gets made

What motion design and motion graphics are in plain words: how they differ from character animation, live-action video and VFX, where the craft came from (Saul Bass, John Whitney), which kinds a business actually needs, what a motion designer does, which software is used and how a video goes from brief to finished files.

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Motion design · 9 min read

Animated explainer videos for business: types, length, a one-page script and pricing

What an animated business video and an explainer video are, the main types, how long a video should be and how to work out its length from the voice-over script, a one-page script template, the production stages, what drives the price, where the video works, and how to handle voice-over in Uzbek and Russian.

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Motion design · 11 min read

Instagram Reels for business: what Reels are, Instagram's requirements and 15 ideas for Uzbekistan

What Reels are in plain terms and why a business needs them: the 9:16 frame, length limits and safe zones from Instagram's and Meta's official materials, how Instagram decides who sees a reel, why watermarks and reposts cut reach, the first three seconds, subtitles and sound, 15 Reels ideas for shops, clinics, developers, car dealers, restaurants and services in Uzbekistan, posting frequency and metrics.

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Automation · 16 min read

AI in accounting: will it replace accountants? A study of 277 of them

What AI in accounting does in practice, according to a 2026 study in the Journal of Accounting Research: a survey of 277 accountants, 200,000 transactions from 79 firms and an experiment. Where the time went, what happened to reporting quality, whether AI will replace accountants, and what carries over to Uzbekistan.

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Automation · 16 min read

How to automate business reports: from Monday copy-paste to a summary that sends itself

How to automate reports without speeding up your mistakes: keep the 3–5 numbers someone actually acts on, guard against silent limits like the old XLS format, and pick one of four levels — Power Query in Excel, Google Sheets with Apps Script, a scheduled summary in Telegram, or BI. Where AI belongs in reporting, a five-line summary template and a checklist.

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Sales · 16 min read

Google Sheets as a CRM: a template, the real limits, and when to switch

How to use Google Sheets as a CRM: three tabs, the columns, dropdowns and a rule that highlights overdue follow-ups. Website leads through Apps Script, a morning digest in Telegram, Google's documented limits as of September 2026, six signs it is time for a real CRM, and how to move without losing history.

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Tools · 14 min read

AI in the Uzbek language: chatbots, speech-to-text and text-to-speech in 2026

What AI can do in Uzbek as of September 2026: two scripts and mixed-language messages, the token “language tax” (measured on FLORES-200, method included), which services offer Uzbek speech-to-text and text-to-speech according to their official language lists, and how to test a vendor in 30 minutes.

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Sales · 15 min read

Telegram Business explained: the features, how it relates to Premium, and how to set it up

Telegram Business is not a separate app or a separate plan but a section of your settings that comes with Premium. What business hours, greeting and away messages, quick replies and links to chat actually do, what has worked without Premium since May 2026, how to set it all up in an evening, and ready-to-use texts for a shop, a clinic and a repair service in English and Uzbek.

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Tools · 13 min read

Telegram auto-reply without Premium: how to connect a bot to your own account

Since 7 May 2026 any Telegram user can connect a bot to their personal account without Premium. How a bot differs from the built-in away message, how to connect one, what the “this bot doesn't support Telegram Business” error means and what to ask whoever sells you the bot.

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Automation · 23 min read

How to automate your business: a step-by-step plan with or without AI

A step-by-step plan for automating business processes one at a time: pick the first process, write down a baseline metric, choose between an off-the-shelf service, configuration and custom development, decide where AI belongs, run a two-week pilot and keep the code and access. With industry examples, prices and a checklist.

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Sales · 8 min read

How long a lead lives: what is actually known about response speed

“Reply within 5 minutes and your odds rise 100×”: where the figure comes from and what it measured. What HBR, audits of 9,538 and 433 companies, 2026 studies of car dealers and developers, and a peer-reviewed paper say — and why an instant auto-reply does not count.

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E-commerce · 5 min read

Ranking on Uzum: what moves search results and what doesn't

The marketplace published its search formula. How much rating, title and conversions weigh, why a long SEO description is not the main lever, and what filling in filter attributes actually buys you.

Show your process — I will send back an automation map in 48 hours

Six questions about how things are set up at your place today. The output is a diagram: what can be taken off people, in what order and what it costs.