How we work5 min
Why we build a demo before you commit to the build
Written specifications hide disagreements. A working demo of the core workflow surfaces them in week one, when changing your mind is still cheap.
July 7, 2026Read
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Operations6 min
Spreadsheets are fine, until they become load-bearing
A spreadsheet is the right tool far longer than software people admit. Here are the specific signals that yours has quietly become production infrastructure.
June 26, 2026Read
Computer vision8 min
How OCR improves warehouse inventory workflows
Reading a label is the easy part. Deciding which inventory record a half-readable label belongs to, and knowing when not to decide, is where the engineering goes.
June 12, 2026Read
Product engineering7 min
Planning a SaaS product that can actually scale
Most SaaS products that struggle to grow were not under-engineered. They made three specific decisions late: tenancy, permissions, and billing.
May 29, 2026Read
AI7 min
AI agents that do real work, not demos
The gap between an impressive agent demo and an agent you can leave running is almost entirely about boundaries: what it may do, how sure it must be, and when it must stop.
May 15, 2026Read
Cloud6 min
AWS serverless for small teams: what it is genuinely good at
Serverless is excellent for bursty, asynchronous, uneven work. It is a poor fit for steady predictable load, and the difference shows up on the bill.
April 30, 2026Read
Integrations7 min
Integration patterns that hold up: Stripe, HubSpot, QuickBooks
Every integration works on the happy path. The ones that survive contact with production share four habits, and none of them are about the API client.
April 16, 2026Read
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