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AI Opportunity Score (Free Report)
Get your score: Take the quick online assessment and discover where AI could be most transformative in your business — the quick wins, the bigger builds, and where to start.
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Get your score: Take the 4–6 minute online AI Disruption Risk Score, discover your AI risk exposure across 5 critical pillars, and uncover the blindspots.
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Get your score: Take the 3-minute readiness assessment and discover whether your startup is ready to build across five critical pillars, from product-market clarity to go-to-market.
Articles and Insights
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Why we love Payload CMS (and what we compared it against)
We rebuilt scorchsoft.com on Payload CMS after seriously considering WordPress and MODX. An honest look at what unopinionated schema-as-code buys you, where the alternatives win, and why a content model that lives in the repository changes how you work with AI.
Why Build a Customer Portal Now? Portals 101: a Smart Move for Workflow, Self-Service and AI (The Real Opportunity)
Learn why now is a strong time to build a customer portal, improve workflow, add self-service, connect systems and use AI where it saves real time.
Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (UK): What It Means for App, Software & AI Projects (and Critical Infrastructure Suppliers)
A practical guide to the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: what changes, who's in scope, and how to de-risk app and AI delivery.
Tech Toolkit Podcast
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App Launch Best Practices, Tips & Tricks - App Launch Checklist for Releasing Successful Apps!
What does it take to launch a successful mobile app? Discover best practices, tips, tricks, and secrets to ensure your app makes a lasting impact.
Should You Rebuild Your Existing App or Work With What You Already Have?
Should you remake your app or extend your old app? This case answers these important questions. Here is what you should consider and what to do next.
Get Better Results: 77 App Conversion Rate Boosting Tips & Tricks - App CRO Strategies
77 strategies to boost your digital platform's conversion rates. Elevate your user engagement & drive growth with our actionable tips and tricks.
Our Books
Execute Your Tech Idea: A Step by Step Guide for Non-Techies, Professionals, Managers, and Startups
Have an idea for an app or online portal? If so, this book is for you! Execute Your Tech Idea is a step-by-step guide for non-techies to help you learn the fundamentals of launching a tech project. Its step-by-step nature aims to gradually build your knowledge to provide you with the tools you need to succeed in an approachable and easy-to-understand format.
The ChatGPT Guide for Business: A Quick-Start Guide to Effective AI Use and Prompt Engineering In Work and Business
Discover the power of AI for your business with this essential guide to ChatGPT! Full of practical applications and techniques, learn how to harness AI to boost productivity, enhance your work and gain a competitive edge. From business communications to project management, marketing and more, learn how to use AI responsibly. A must-read for you or your team!
Guides and Glossary
Two reference libraries to lean on before and during a build — the long read, and the quick definition.
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Tell us where you're headed and we'll come back with our thoughts, a realistic plan and a rough cost estimate. Scorchsoft is a UK-based team of app, portal and AI developers, working in-house from Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.