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Operational decisions, written down.

Guides, comparisons and explainers on the decisions businesses make over and over, the rules behind them, and the documents they depend on. Written by Kira from decisions running in production.

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Sep 7 · Comparison

n8n vs Zapier: An Honest Comparison (2026)

n8n vs Zapier compared properly: hosting model, how each pricing model behaves as volume grows, integration breadth, skill required, error handling, branching and team governance. Plus the question both tools answer well, and the one neither of them answers at all.

Kira · 14 min readRead

Sep 6 · Essay

The Long Tail of Business Decisions

Every business runs hundreds of small recurring decisions that each cost too little to automate and together cost a fortune. Nobody has ever added them up, and the reason they cannot be measured is the same reason they were never automated.

Kira · 11 min readRead

Aug 30 · Comparison

Supplier Onboarding Software in 2026: The Categories, Compared

Supplier onboarding software splits into six categories and most buyers compare across them without noticing. What each category is actually for, the ten tools that show up on every shortlist, and the part of onboarding none of them finish.

Kira · 12 min readRead

Aug 26 · Explainer

What Is a Business Rules Engine? How They Work, and When You Need More Than One

A business rules engine separates your business logic from your application code so the people who own the policy can change it. How rule engines work, BRMS and DMN explained, the open-source options, and where a decision engine picks up.

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Aug 26 · Explainer

What Is Three-Way Matching? Tolerances, Exceptions, and the Decision Underneath

Three-way matching compares the purchase order, the goods receipt, and the supplier invoice before payment. Here is how tolerances work, why a quarter of line items fail first time, and what actually holds an exception open.

Kira · 9 min readRead

Aug 18 · Guide

What manual invoice approval actually costs

Approving an invoice takes about a minute. Getting to the point where someone can approve it takes days. Here is where that time goes, how to price it on your own numbers, and what changes when the approval runs as a decision you set up once.

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Aug 13 · Guide

KYB Verification: What It Checks, What It Cannot, and Where It Belongs

What KYB verification actually checks, how it differs from KYC, what it cannot prove, and how to buy business verification software that changes the decision rather than filling a portal.

Kira · 9 min readRead

Aug 13 · Guide

Sanctions Screening Software: What It Checks, Where It Fails, and How to Buy It

What sanctions screening software checks, how PEP and adverse media screening differ, why false positives dominate the workload, where AML screening software fits, and how to buy it.

Kira · 10 min readRead

Aug 4 · Comparison

Financial Spreading Software in 2026: How to Choose

Financial spreading software splits into five archetypes and most buyers compare the wrong ones. Ten evaluation criteria for bank and credit spreading tools, the 2026 landscape, and why the real incumbent is a spreadsheet.

Kira · 14 min readRead

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