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Notes from the workshop

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

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14 Jan 2026

The integration that lies about its rate limit

Third-party APIs are the most common source of schedule slip in our projects. What we do during discovery to price them honestly.

EngineeringIntegrationsScoping

Engineering · 6 min

13 Jan 2026

Generated tests are not a test strategy

A model can produce a thousand test cases in a minute. Coverage went up and nothing got safer — here is what we changed.

TestingAIQuality

Quality · 6 min

12 Jan 2026

When not to build software

Discovery occasionally ends with a recommendation not to proceed. Here is what that looks like and why we still charge for it.

ProcessScopingClients

Process · 5 min

09 Jan 2026

A checklist for handing a project over

Handover is a deliverable with acceptance criteria, not an email with credentials in it.

ProcessDeliveryClients

Process · 5 min

08 Jan 2026

Context engineering beats prompt tricks

The quality of model-assisted work tracks what the model can see, far more than how the request is phrased.

AIClaudeEngineering

AI · 6 min

07 Jan 2026

How we scoped a fleet platform without guessing

A build note: the questions that changed the architecture of a vehicle-tracking product before a line of it was written.

Case studyScopingEngineering

Case notes · 7 min