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Every COR Intelligence article, ordered by publication date. Newest first.
15 articles · 1 year of writing
2026
15 articles
August
- 28 August 2026WebsitesGuide3 minGoogle lets readers pick their sources. Most sites have not noticed.Preferred sources is the closest thing SEO has to a loyalty scheme: a reader picks you once, then sees you more often in Search, Top Stories and AI Overviews. Here is why that matters and how to try it, on our blog, right now.
- 27 August 2026WebsitesInsight3 minGoogle killed FAQ rich results. Don't delete your schema.The expandable question-and-answer dropdowns are gone from Google for every site. Stripping out your FAQ schema is the wrong response, and the reason why says something bigger about where search is going.
- 27 August 2026AI BusinessField note4 minWhat ChatGPT searches when it recommends a business (we built a tool to find out)Ask ChatGPT for a plumber, an accountant or a builder: does your business show up? We built tooling that captures the actual searches it fires and the sources it reads, so the answer is now measurable.
- 26 August 2026IT HacksGuide2 minConnecting a work or school account in Windows 11The follow-on from a local-account setup: how to connect Microsoft 365 or any work or school account to Windows 11 through Settings, step by step with screenshots.
- 26 August 2026Made by CORAnnouncement4 minDeck View: the workspace we built around Claude CodeOur native macOS app for running many coding agents at once: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Aider, Copilot and Windsurf side by side in one multi-pane deck, with sessions that survive closing the app.
- 26 August 2026IT HacksGuide3 minSetting up a new Windows 11 PC? Use a local admin account from the startThe Shift and F10 trick that gets a new Windows 11 machine set up with a local admin account: no Microsoft login, no forced Wi-Fi connection, full control from the first boot.
June
- 12 June 2026Business IntelligenceField note5 minHow we built a family law solicitor a one-click desktop app for client matter foldersA one-click desktop app for a family law solicitor, because the best tool is the one that fits how you actually work. Native Mac app, no login, no browser; the matter folder syncs straight to SharePoint through OneDrive.
May
- 21 May 2026Business ITGuide5 minRemoving the NinjaOne Agent when Add/Remove Programs will notA PowerShell script that finishes the job when the normal uninstall flow leaves NinjaRMM bits behind, services, registry keys, modules and the Ninja Remote driver. Copy-paste, run as administrator, done.
- 20 May 2026Made by CORField note15 minI asked Claude.ai and ChatGPT to read my inbox. They choked at 50 messages. So I built the local one.Cloud AI can connect to your inbox. It cannot actually read it. Here is what happened when I gave up waiting for the vendors to fix that, and built a local-first AI assistant for my own mailbox on an M5 Max, 125,000 messages, a knowledge graph, all the AI inference running on my own machine, and the things you only learn when you try.
- 20 May 2026Made by CORField note11 minI bought a £6,700 M5 Max (128GB RAM, 4TB SSD) and immediately had to build its fan controlHow a single hour with a new M5 Max and an MLX inference job sent me down a thirty-six-hour rabbit hole that ended with a custom fan-control daemon, a CFRunLoop power-event monitor, and the discovery of a macOS daemon Apple does not want you to know about.
- 20 May 2026SecurityGuide7 minPhishing emails: the forward-button trick (and the rules around it)Pressing Forward usually reveals the sender’s real email address. Calling the client on a number you already have on file stops bank-detail fraud. The rest is process, written down where every staff member can find it.
- 20 May 2026Made by CORField note10 minTwo YouTube videos, one PDF feature Adobe forgot to kill, and a field-engineer reporting system that actually worksI needed to give a UPS maintenance firm a reporting tool that worked offline, in a data-centre basement, on a laptop with no signal. The answer was a feature buried in Adobe Acrobat’s JavaScript API that has, I checked, exactly two YouTube videos explaining it.
- 20 May 2026Business ITGuide6 minStaff tech essentials: the minimum every UK business should provideA short, opinionated list of the security and tooling decisions every employer owes their staff in 2026. Phishing training, password managers, the no-emailed-link rule, and MFA explained plainly for people who don’t spend their day thinking about this.
- 19 May 2026AI DevField note7 minClaude Code in the terminal: how to actually build with AIMost people use AI like a search engine, type, copy, paste, move on. The few who actually ship with it use it where the work happens: in the terminal. Here is what changes when you do.
- 11 May 2026Business IntelligenceField note8 minWhy we built a FLIT drafter using local AI, and saved hours of partner time per willLawyers are right to be scared of cloud AI. So we built a will-drafting tool that does not use it, the AI runs on a computer in the firm’s office, with no internet connection and no client data ever leaving the building. Along the way, it cut a one-to-three-hour partner task down to about thirty minutes, and brought the four-to-eight-hour complex matters under control too.