Automation
When n8n stops being enough: signs you need a custom agent
Five signals from the field that you've outgrown drag-and-drop and need a real engineering partner.
Apr 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Writing
Field notes from shipping.
Engineering, strategy, and the boring stuff that makes the rest work — written by people who actually do the work.
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RSSStrategy
A practical AI readiness checklist for 50–500 person teams
The questions to ask before any vendor demo, and the data work nobody wants to do first.
Apr 02, 2026 · 8 min read
Engineering
How we ship LLM features without breaking prod
Evals, traffic shadowing, and the boring deploy gates that keep our agents trustworthy.
Mar 21, 2026 · 11 min read
Engineering
Designing AI agents that escalate well
The hardest part of an autonomous agent is teaching it when not to be autonomous.
Mar 08, 2026 · 9 min read
Engineering
Why we still write CRMs from scratch in 2026
Salesforce and HubSpot are great. Sometimes a custom Laravel CRM is still the right answer.
Feb 26, 2026 · 7 min read
Strategy
Vendor selection: the AI tools we actually use
A snapshot of our current AI stack — what we deploy for clients, why, and what we avoid.
Feb 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Strategy
The unsexy work that makes AI projects succeed
Data cleaning, schema design, edge-case mapping. The 60% of an AI project that no one wants to talk about.
Jan 29, 2026 · 6 min read
Engineering
Lighthouse 98 is the new minimum
How we ship Next.js sites that score 98+ across the board, and why it now matters more than ever for SEO.
Jan 15, 2026 · 5 min read
Strategy
How to interview an AI vendor (without being fooled)
Five questions that separate the engineers from the slide-makers — based on demos we've sat through.
Dec 18, 2025 · 7 min read
Engineering
Custom dashboards beat off-the-shelf for ops teams
Why we keep building custom Metabase + Retool admin tools instead of buying generic ops dashboards.
Dec 04, 2025 · 6 min read
Engineering
Migrating off Magento without losing your rankings
A 12,000-URL Shopify Plus migration with zero traffic loss. Here's the playbook.
Nov 20, 2025 · 9 min read
Automation
Why we stopped using Zapier for client work
Zapier is great for prototypes. Here's why we moved every client off it for production work.
Nov 06, 2025 · 4 min read
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