# Blog

Occasional notes by Paolo Donà on technology, leadership, AI, and life.

- [Talking to Oracle OPERA in plain English](https://paolodona.com/blog/opera-mcp.html): I built an MCP server that puts Oracle OPERA Cloud — one of the most quintessentially "old-style enterprise" systems in hospitality — behind a Claude prompt. Here is what changed when our team stopped clicking and started asking.
- [Speaking at Stripe Sessions 2026 in San Francisco](https://paolodona.com/blog/stripe-sessions-2026.html): Sharing the blueprint we used at Staycity Group to unify our multi-channel payment infrastructure on stage at Stripe Sessions 2026 in San Francisco.
- [Borrowing expertise: a 30-property Booking.com merchandising audit](https://paolodona.com/blog/merchandising-audit.html): I am not a revenue manager and I am not a copywriter. Over a long weekend, with Claude Code as a collaborator, I produced a 30-property Booking.com merchandising audit grounded in pricing theory, behavioural psychology and a real side-by-side comparison against competitors. A note on what changes when domain knowledge stops being the bottleneck.