Weekly Blogs

Welcome to the Green Gorilla Automation blog where operators, founders, and technical leaders come to think more clearly about systems.

This isn’t a generic tech news feed. It’s a working library of practical insight drawn from real-world automation projects, internal tool builds, and digital transformation work inside growing SMEs.

Here, we unpack what actually makes automation succeed (or fail). From composable architecture and API integrations to workflow design, UX for internal tools, and AI as a teammate. Every article is grounded in execution, not theory.

You’ll find breakdowns of:

  • How to reduce operational friction with better system design

  • When to build vs. buy software

  • How to approach digital transformation without chaos

  • Practical automation patterns that create measurable ROI

  • Lessons learned from scaling internal platforms

We write for decision-makers who care about clarity, leverage, and long-term resilience, not just quick wins.

If you’re responsible for improving operations, increasing efficiency, or future-proofing your systems, this is where strategy meets implementation.

Green Gorilla Automation builds systems that work quietly in the background. Reliable, scalable, and intentionally designed. This blog explains how and why.

Explore, challenge assumptions, and build better infrastructure.

Applying the Lean Startup to a boring Marketing Plan

Howdy, it’s been a while since I last posted anything on our blog. We were suffering slightly from the old adage of working on urgent and non important ‘stuff’ until I read a great article from Seth Godin to shock me into action. Behind...

How to Run a Software Company Remotely

A few weeks ago, we at Green Gorilla Apps ran a one-week trial for working remotely. We’ve been in the same office since we started in 2012, so it was a big conceptual leap to go from daily face-to-face contact to working from home. Fellow Gorilla...

The results of the GGA remote working experiment 1 week on

Last week I did a blog about how we decided, as a team, to trial remote working. In a word… success! As I mentioned last time, we had a strong belief that with the tools we already used to communicate and run projects we were already setup to work...

How we built 8-bit weather in half a day

Two weeks ago to this day, we at Green Gorilla Apps finished our weekly sprint early. We held an emergency meeting at a local pub to determine the next steps. The consensus was that we should set ourselves a challenge of building a simple app that...

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