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How I Save Companies Hundreds of Thousands of Rubles — and Don’t Make Money from It Today I’ll share one of the latest cases where I could have earned money from development, but instead: I saw that the client came up with a solution to their problem themselves (which actually doesn’t solve it), and I offered an alternative that ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of rubles — and I didn’t earn a dime. Recently, a company approached me that wanted to implement an AI assistant on the homepage of their website. They had already contacted a contractor before and decided to get my opinion as well. The first contractor estimated the development at 350,000 rubles, plus 100,000 rubles for each iteration of the assistant’s refinement. In the end, the cost could have grown significantly. When I joined the project and started gathering information, I concluded that developing such an assistant might not lead to the results it was intended for. I also saw that the hypothesis could be tested much faster and cheaper using existing resources, which I suggested to the client. Result: the hypothesis was indeed incorrect, and developing the AI assistant would have been a pointless waste of time and money. In the end, the client saved at least 150,000 rubles (the cost of my work), and I didn’t earn anything even from the analysis and finding the optimal solution 😀 P.S. By the way, this is a very common problem — when solutions are invented like in an old joke: “we look where it’s light, not where we lost it.”