Everything We've Written Down
Two kinds of writing. Case studies are the outcome: what we built and what it changed. Field notes are the method: the architecture, the trade-offs, and the mistakes, in full.
Thera: Scoring Federal Opportunities for a Contractor With Money on the Line
How we built capture intelligence for federal contractors around one hard rule, that a score has to be a gate rather than a ranking, with a design partner who loses work when the tool is wrong.
6 min read · Sep 2026
Nobody Got the Password Reset, and Two Different Reasons Why
Two systems decide whether a reset email arrives, they fail identically from the customer's side, and confusing them cost us weeks. Plus the DNS write that nearly deleted a record we were not editing.
9 min read · Sep 2026
The Agent That Cannot See My Tax File
An AI agent that has read a company's strategy, brand, product and marketing records, and cannot reach the tax ID, the bank statements or the source code. Not by policy. By a check that refuses to finish.
7 min read · Sep 2026


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