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Charlie Correa

Marketing, Workbricks · Singapore

Charlie runs marketing at Workbricks. He keeps an eye on how people talk about software online, and what that says about how companies want to build and buy it.

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Software buyingResearch

35%, 18.6% or 76%: build vs buy depends on who you asked

Three build vs buy stats went viral this year and seem to clash, but they asked different people different things. Worth checking the sample before you share one.

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Software buyingVibe coding

Nobody posts the day 400 update

The "we replaced Salesforce" posts all get written in week one. The bill, the upkeep and the owner question come later, and honestly, nobody posts about those.

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GovernanceSecurity

The first shadow-AI 8-K started with a slide deck

A bank employee, an unapproved AI app and a slide deck became a public SEC filing in under a week, with no hacker and no outage. Honestly, a pretty ordinary way for it to happen.

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SecurityGovernance

"Expected behavior": who decides an app should be public?

A security firm found thousands of AI-built apps leaving company data open, and one platform called it expected behavior. I think whoever picks the default is setting the policy.

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Software buyingAI agents

Software stocks fell nearly 13%. Your renewal is a different story

February's AI plugin selloff erased about $1 trillion in software value before the rally. Worth asking what, if anything, that should change about how you buy software.

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Vibe codingSecurity

"I didn't write one line of code" is a confession now

A builder bragged he wrote no code and Moltbook went viral. Days later it was a security story, and that line should mean something different to anyone who approves apps at work.

Which document-heavy job would you hand over first?

Bring one process you want to improve and the information behind it. We build the first version with you in the session, so the first thing you see is your own work, running.

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An hour of your time and a process you know well. That's all it takes.