AI on Inquisitive M365https://thomasdaly.net/category/ai/Recent content in AI on Inquisitive M365Hugo -- gohugo.ioen© 2026 Tom DalyFri, 06 Nov 2026 03:00:00 -0500OpenClaw, Hermes, Grok Bot: My Search for a Personal AI Assistanthttps://thomasdaly.net/2026/11/06/agents-i-experimented-with/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 03:00:00 -0500https://thomasdaly.net/2026/11/06/agents-i-experimented-with/I wanted a personal assistant I could talk to, to keep up with my email, calendar and projects. It took three AI agents, two extra computers, and a lot of my own connectors to get there.Finding Lease Data in Giant Scanned Packetshttps://thomasdaly.net/2026/11/05/archive-lease-extraction-giant-packets/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2026/11/05/archive-lease-extraction-giant-packets/Giant scanned packets of leases, rental agreements, cancellations and letters. How we pulled the files from SharePoint, ran OCR on a local machine, read them with a cheap AI model in Microsoft Foundry, and only paid for a stronger model when a simple check failed.Web Parts Are Cominghttps://thomasdaly.net/2026/11/05/web-parts-are-coming/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2026/11/05/web-parts-are-coming/I’m pulling together the SharePoint web parts I’ve built over my career, plus the ones people keep asking for. Here’s what’s coming, and how AI lets me build them properly and still support them.Automated Lease Routing with Microsoft Foundry, Azure Functions, and SharePointhttps://thomasdaly.net/2026/08/18/azure-ai-document-routing-sharepoint/Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2026/08/18/azure-ai-document-routing-sharepoint/How I used Azure AI to read lease documents and file them in the right SharePoint folder, and the surprises that didn’t show up until real documents started flowing through it.Why We Rebuilt a Power App as a Web App (And How AI Helped Us Ship It Fast)https://thomasdaly.net/2026/03/05/power-app-to-web-app-migration/Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2026/03/05/power-app-to-web-app-migration/A boutique camera parts dealer outgrew their Power App. Here’s why we moved to a custom web app, the problems that forced the switch, and how AI-assisted development made it practical for a small team.Building a Two-Stage AI Pipeline for Invoice Processing with AWS Textract and Amazon Bedrockhttps://thomasdaly.net/2025/03/04/textract-plus-bedrock-two-stage-ai-pipeline/Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://thomasdaly.net/2025/03/04/textract-plus-bedrock-two-stage-ai-pipeline/How I built a serverless pipeline using AWS Textract for OCR and Amazon Bedrock for AI normalization to extract structured data from invoices across hundreds of different vendor formats.