The Real Cost of DIY: Building a Voice Agent on Twilio + OpenAI
In 2024, I decided to build a voice agent from scratch. The plan was simple: use Twilio for telephony, OpenAI Whisper for speech-to-text, GPT-4 for th…
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OpenAI Shipped Your Voice Stack at $0.25/Min. Vapi Went Enterprise. The Infra Layer Abandoned Agencies in Eleven Days.
On May 7, OpenAI made gpt-realtime-2 generally available in the Realtime API at roughly $0.25 to $0.35 per minute of conversation, with GPT-5-class re…
How to write a project brief that actually helps you hire a Next.js developer
Writing a good brief before you hire a Next.js developer is the single thing that separates projects that land on time from ones that drift for months…
Why 'AI Without Hype' Stopped Differentiating in 2026
Every AI agency sells "no hype" now. "No bullshit." "Measurable results, not experiments." "Production-ready, not prototyping." The phrase used to mea…
5 n8n Automations Every Digital Agency Should Be Running (Bill More, Work Less)
Running a digital agency without automation is like doing client work with one hand tied behind your back. Every hour your team spends on repetitive t…
Hire a Sanity developer vs agency: five honest trade-offs
When a founder asks me whether to hire a Sanity developer directly or go through an agency, I never give the same answer twice. The right choice depen…