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AI for businesses, explained concretely: what an implementation costs, a chatbot or an AI agent, the phone or the cloud. Every number has a source.

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  1. AI automation

    Chatbot or AI agent? Differences, costs and when to use which

    How a chatbot differs from an AI agent and from plain automation, what each costs, the OWASP risks and what the EU AI Act requires from 2 August 2026.

    6 min read

  2. AI automation

    How much does AI implementation cost in 2026? Prices, running costs and pitfalls

    What a chatbot, an automation and an AI agent cost, the monthly model bill worked out on October 2026 price lists, and the costs that are easy to miss.

    7 min read

  3. Mobile apps

    AI on the phone instead of the cloud: when it makes sense

    When to run an AI model on the phone and when in the cloud: privacy, cost, offline use and the limits, with my SomaScope app as the worked example.

    9 min read

More guides, on websites, KSeF e-invoicing and automation tools, are in Polish: Poradniki

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