Notes from the workshop

What we learned building things, written up while it was still fresh. No thought leadership, no listicles.

Security basics that survive an audit

The unglamorous list we work through on every project, and the three findings that show up in almost every system we inherit.

Engineering · 6 min

27 Jan 2026

The most effective planning tool we have is an unmovable date where someone outside the team looks at the software.

Process · 5 min

26 Jan 2026

Not a chat box. A classifier, a drafting step, and a human who stays accountable — with the numbers that justified each part.

Case notes · 7 min

23 Jan 2026

A short catalogue of the places bugs consistently hide, collected from our own defect log.

Quality · 5 min

22 Jan 2026

Running several coding agents on one codebase is a coordination problem, and the fix is the same one that works for humans.

AI · 6 min

21 Jan 2026

A list of the artefacts a client owns at the end of paid discovery, whether or not they build with us.

Process · 5 min