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Personal experience running DeepSeek's dsh harness: one prompt, 109 agent steps, 48 tok/s on V4 Flash 0731, a working Fireflies.ai clone plugin, and the approval-gate behaviour that earned my trust. Includes session metrics, cost math, V4 Flash vs Opus comparison and secure VPS + Tailscale self-hosting steps.
AI for Australian fitout companies: archive analysis, BoQ generation from drawings, material cost tracking. Includes a real $6,000 archive analysis scoped for a 65-staff firm. Pricing from $3,000.
How Australian builders use AI for plan reading, takeoffs, quoting and compliance. We tested 10 vision models on real plans: 4 of 6 within 10% accuracy at $15 per plan set. Pricing included.
Practical AI for Australian golf pro shops: inventory forecasting, member purchase analysis and automated communications. Setup from $500 to $5,000, with a real 200+ store training case study.
TrueFoundry's open-source TrueForge harness claims up to 75% cheaper agent runs than Claude Managed Agents. We break down the benchmark, compare it with DeepSeek Harness, Codex CLI and deepagents, and explain what it means for businesses choosing agent infrastructure.
DeepSeek Harness (dsh) hit 95,000 GitHub stars in 2 days with its everything-is-a-plugin agent architecture. We installed it, benchmarked the claims and explain what it means for teams choosing agent infrastructure.
GLM-5.3 and V4-Pro-0813 shipped 24 hours apart, both claiming the open-weights coding crown. Deep research, self-reported benchmarks separated honestly, pricing in AUD context and decision infographics.
How Australian HVAC, plumbing and mechanical services businesses can use AI to track parts costs, automate quoting, optimise scheduling and reduce admin by 15+ hours per week.
We tested 10 frontier AI vision models on real architectural drawings for construction takeoffs. Four of six models achieved within 10% accuracy. A median of four models hit 0.03% error. Total cost: $15. The bottleneck was never the models.