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By Paul Ridgway
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Why Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Should Be Adopting AI. It’s Not Just for Enterprise
In the UK, over 99% of businesses are SMEs, yet AI is still framed as an enterprise transformation agenda. This article challenges that narrative, arguing that for smaller organisations AI is not a board-level spectacle but a practical lever for productivity, margin protection and operational scale. The real risk is not lack of access, but unstructured adoption without commercial intent.
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March 2026

Attendee Tracking on Blecon: A Behind‑the‑Booth Look at Our Demo
How The Curve used Blecon’s low‑power BLE stack and gateways to deliver robust people and asset tracking in sparse, off‑grid environments—summarised from a conversation between our CTO, James, and Blecon’s CEO, Simon Ford.
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October 2025
From MVP to MDV: A Leaner Path to Value
A Minimum Deliverable Value (MDV) is a lightweight, functional outcome that tests a core assumption or delivers operational insight without the bloat of a full MVP. This is ideal for validating a specific assumption, exploring a technical opportunity, or demonstrating early value before investing in a larger, traditional MVP or product build.
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August 2025
The IoT Gadgets
In this post we take a quick look at the gadgets featured during The Curve’s demo at our first in-person event that we hosted the other week as well as a few of the considerations that went into the design, build and software.
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November 2024
Building for ARM with Docker – packaging libcamera-apps for Alpine on armv7
In this article we look at compiling applications for different CPU architectures using Docker to emulate on an x86 host, with a working example of packaging libcamera-apps for Alpine Linux for an armv7 device (a Raspberry Pi Zero) and armv8 (Raspberry Pi Zero 2).
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January 2024
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