<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Conceptual Creative blog</title><description>Custom software, AI and digitalisation for companies in the Canary Islands, from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.</description><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>GEO: how to get ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity to recommend you</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/geo-get-chatgpt-to-recommend-your-company/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/geo-get-chatgpt-to-recommend-your-company/</guid><description>GEO means getting AI assistants to cite you. It builds on SEO: a crawlable site, consistent business data, answer-first content and mentions on other sites.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>geo</category><category>seo</category><category>artificial intelligence</category><category>chatgpt</category><category>digital marketing</category></item><item><title>What changes when you let AI write your infrastructure code</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/cloud-development-with-ai-claude-code/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/cloud-development-with-ai-claude-code/</guid><description>Asking Claude Code to write Terraform isn&apos;t the same as asking it to write a function. AI applied to infrastructure has its own rules. Here&apos;s what we learned.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>claude code</category><category>infrastructure as code</category><category>cloud</category><category>artificial intelligence</category></item><item><title>Cloud computing for businesses in Gran Canaria: real benefits, real costs and when NOT to migrate</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/cloud-computing-business-gran-canaria/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/cloud-computing-business-gran-canaria/</guid><description>Cloud computing isn&apos;t the automatic answer for every SME in Las Palmas. Here are the real benefits, the costs few people show you, and when cloud doesn&apos;t pay off.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>cloud computing</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>canary islands</category><category>smes</category></item><item><title>SaaS templates: when they stop serving you and it&apos;s time to migrate to something custom</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/saas-templates-when-they-stop-fitting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/saas-templates-when-they-stop-fitting/</guid><description>Starting with a SaaS template is the right call on day one. But there&apos;s a moment when the template can no longer follow you. Here are the signals and what to do.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>saas</category><category>custom software</category><category>scalability</category><category>technical decisions</category></item><item><title>Digital transformation for companies in the Canary Islands: where to actually start</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/digital-transformation-canary-islands-companies/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/digital-transformation-canary-islands-companies/</guid><description>Digital transformation isn&apos;t buying software with a subsidy. It&apos;s redesigning how your company works. Where to start if you run a business in the Canaries.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>digital transformation</category><category>tech consulting</category><category>canary islands</category><category>smes</category></item><item><title>Spec-Driven Development: why specifying before coding changes everything</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/spec-driven-development-why-it-matters/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/spec-driven-development-why-it-matters/</guid><description>Around 70% of software projects ship something different from what was imagined. Spec-Driven Development closes that gap before any code is written.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>spec-driven development</category><category>methodology</category><category>software development</category><category>artificial intelligence</category></item><item><title>The mistake most companies make when going digital</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/digitalization-mistake-companies/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/digitalization-mistake-companies/</guid><description>Digitalizing a company isn&apos;t buying software. It&apos;s redesigning how people work. Many companies do the first convinced it&apos;s the second — and end up with more chaos, not less.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>digitalization</category><category>digital transformation</category><category>business management</category><category>custom software</category></item><item><title>Why your company is still wasting time with Excel when it could have its own system</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/excel-vs-custom-system/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/excel-vs-custom-system/</guid><description>Excel isn&apos;t the problem. The problem is using it for things it wasn&apos;t designed for. When does it make sense to build a custom system — and when doesn&apos;t it?</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>custom software</category><category>business management</category><category>digitalization</category><category>excel</category></item><item><title>OpenClaw: the AI that lives on your computer (and why it needs its own machine)</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/openclaw-local-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/openclaw-local-ai/</guid><description>A local AI that can do anything on your computer is incredibly useful. It&apos;s also incredibly dangerous if you don&apos;t isolate it properly. Here&apos;s what we&apos;ve learned.</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>artificial intelligence</category><category>local ai</category><category>privacy</category><category>development tools</category></item><item><title>How we use Claude in our development projects (and how you probably shouldn&apos;t)</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/claude-development-teams/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/claude-development-teams/</guid><description>Claude isn&apos;t a code search engine or a developer replacement: it&apos;s a teammate with context. How we use it at Conceptual Creative to ship quality software.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>artificial intelligence</category><category>software development</category><category>development teams</category><category>claude ai</category></item><item><title>Why a template website isn&apos;t the same as a tool that works for your business</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/custom-software-vs-templates-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/custom-software-vs-templates-2026/</guid><description>A template can look good. But there are things a template can never do — because it was designed for someone else&apos;s business, not yours.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>custom-software</category><category>canary-islands</category><category>business</category><category>technology</category></item><item><title>Before hiring a software developer: what nobody tells you</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/how-to-choose-custom-software-las-palmas/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/how-to-choose-custom-software-las-palmas/</guid><description>Choosing who to trust with a software project is one of the most important decisions your company will make. Five questions you should ask before signing anything.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>custom software</category><category>canary islands development</category><category>las palmas business</category></item><item><title>What&apos;s actually changing in businesses that use AI (and what isn&apos;t)</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/ai-transforming-smes-gran-canaria/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/ai-transforming-smes-gran-canaria/</guid><description>AI doesn&apos;t transform companies by itself. What changes is when it&apos;s used to solve a specific problem. 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There&apos;s one that fits your sales process — and others that will make you adapt to them instead.</description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>CRM</category><category>canary islands</category><category>salesforce</category><category>hubspot</category><category>las palmas</category><category>business</category></item><item><title>When it makes sense for your company to build its own software (and when it doesn&apos;t)</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/custom-software-canary-islands/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/custom-software-canary-islands/</guid><description>Not every company needs custom software. But there are clear signs when generic tools are holding you back — and when it&apos;s not worth changing yet.</description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>software</category><category>canary islands</category><category>business</category><category>digital transformation</category></item><item><title>Custom software or SaaS: the question you should ask before committing to anything</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/custom-software-vs-generic-solutions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/custom-software-vs-generic-solutions/</guid><description>The decision isn&apos;t which tool is better in general. It&apos;s which tool solves your specific problem without creating five new ones.</description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>custom software</category><category>SaaS</category><category>canary islands</category><category>software development</category><category>las palmas</category></item><item><title>How many hours does your team lose each week on tasks you could stop doing</title><link>https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/process-automation-business/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://conceptualcreative.com/en/blog/process-automation-business/</guid><description>Some work in your company repeats exactly the same way every day. That&apos;s not operations — it&apos;s avoidable friction. 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