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Askøyværingen, our local newspaper, has written about why we believe AI should be a colleague, not a competitor.

The premise is simple. AI is not going to take your job. It should take the tasks you never wanted in the first place, so you have more time for the work you are actually good at.

That is what we do at Stormberry: helping small and medium-sized businesses put AI to work in a practical, responsible way. Not big words and glossy presentations, but solutions that hold up on a Tuesday morning. Strategy, training, and navigating the EU AI Act included.

Our founder Marcos told the paper he is grateful for everything Norway has given him, and that this is his way of giving something back. We think that is a good place to build a company from.

Here is the full article (in Norwegian, behind a paywall): Askøyværingen

If you are wondering what practical AI could look like in your business, send us a message at stormberry.as/contact. No jargon, no obligation.

A different username for every service you register on. It is one of the simplest privacy habits there is: a reused username links profiles across the web long before anyone touches your email or password.

Our founder Marcos follows that habit strictly, and it came with a recurring annoyance: every registration meant searching for yet another username-generator website, and hoping it was not tracking him while it generated his private identity.

So he built his own, and we are releasing it as open source. UsernameGenerator runs as a single command in the terminal, offline, in ten languages including Norwegian, Portuguese, English and even Latin. It combines curated dictionaries of only positive, heroic and inspiring words, and strips accents automatically so the result works on any platform. For everyone else there is the web version: no cookies, no tracking, nothing leaves the browser.

Built as a functioning prototype in a single session.

Email, phone, video call, in-person, voice note, instant message. The same words land very differently depending on which channel they arrive through, and which culture is on the other end.

In Norway and Germany, email is professional and asynchronous, the default for anything substantive. In Brazil or much of South-East Asia, the same email can read as cold or even passive-aggressive. The substantive conversation happens on phone or in person, and email is for confirming what was already agreed.

Voice notes are normal in many Latin American and Mediterranean teams. They are still slightly intrusive in Scandinavia. Sending one to a Norwegian counterpart you have not built a strong relationship with can feel like skipping a step.

Video calls flatten the cultural gap a little, which is why they have become the international neutral ground. They also flatten warmth. For a relationship-driven culture, the first meeting on video is harder, not easier, than meeting in person.

The skill is not picking your favourite channel. It is picking the channel that fits the relationship and the culture you are in.