Mark Smith | nz365guy – Helping people reach their full potential

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Microsoft’s Copilot Strategy: Turning Shared Context and Persistent Agents into Business Outcomes

Microsoft’s Copilot Strategy: Turning Shared Context and Persistent Agents into Business Outcomes

Mark Smith | nz365guy – Helping people reach their full potential 4 days ago 9

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What Microsoft ISV Success taught me about tenant design

Microsoft ISV Success gave us useful cloud benefits, but assembling them into one clean development tenant exposed avoidable setup gaps.

Mark Smith | nz365guy – Helping people reach their full potential 1 month ago 4

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What if every marae hosted a piece of the cloud?

A thought experiment in Māori data sovereignty: locally owned micro data centres that return skills, resilience, and a dividend to marae.

Mark Smith | nz365guy – Helping people reach their full potential 1 month ago 3

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An Azure photogrammetry pipeline for less than two coffees

Phase 2 of my property digital twin turns 743 drone photos into maps and models on an Azure VM that exists as billable compute for about four ...

Mark Smith | nz365guy – Helping people reach their full potential 1 month ago 5

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AI checks every mission file before my drone flies

My consumer Mavic 3 has no SDK, so repeatable survey flights depend on mission files. An AI inspection caught unsafe defaults and a 22.88-metr...

Mark Smith | nz365guy – Helping people reach their full potential 1 month ago 3

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Why I started NZ Ledger as open financial infrastructure

NZ Ledger is my plan for open-source financial infrastructure designed for people, AI agents, and New Zealand businesses.

Mark Smith | nz365guy – Helping people reach their full potential 2 months ago 4

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We made four websites agent-ready with WebMCP

AI agents already visit our websites and interpret pages built for human eyes. This weekend, we gave all four sites a structured interface the...

Mark Smith | nz365guy – Helping people reach their full potential 2 months ago 8

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Why My AI DevOps Team Runs on a Ralph Loop

My AI DevOps board looked frozen for twelve hours. The fix was not smarter orchestration, but a Ralph loop with real hard stops.

Mark Smith | nz365guy – Helping people reach their full potential 2 months ago 4

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Building Sandy: a read-aloud tool for how I work

Sandy is a Windows 11 read-aloud app I built for dyslexia support, with Azure AI Speech, sentence-level playback, and click-to-read.

Mark Smith | nz365guy – Helping people reach their full potential 2 months ago 4

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I replaced my CRM in a single afternoon

After 23 years working with enterprise CRM platforms, I built a custom AI-native replacement in a single afternoon. Here is why the SaaS model...

Mark Smith | nz365guy – Helping people reach their full potential 3 months ago 4