Notes from the build floor
Practical, opinionated writing from the engineers who ship our work. No thought leadership. No SEO bait. Just what's working — and what isn't.
Why every AI feature should ship with an eval harness on day one
Most LLM features fail silently in production. Here's the eval-first workflow we use to ship AI features that keep working as models, prompts and data change.
How we ship multi-tenant SaaS MVPs in 14 weeks
A look at the scoping, architecture and weekly rhythm behind our SaaS MVP playbook — and why fixed-price actually works when you front-load the planning.
The 7-step cloud cost audit that usually saves 30–60%
A pragmatic, no-rewrite checklist we run on every new cloud engagement. Most teams cut their AWS or GCP bill by a third without changing a single line of application code.
RAG in production: the boring details that actually matter
Chunking, hybrid search, freshness, caching, and observability. The unglamorous decisions that separate a working RAG system from a demo.
The economics of a senior-only engineering team
Why we don't hire juniors, how we price against the big agencies, and why our clients still pay less per shipped feature.
Friday demos: the single ritual that fixes client trust
One non-negotiable meeting in our weekly cadence. Here's how we run it, what we show, and why every client we've ever had has kept it on the calendar.
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