Notes from the bench.
Essays, engineering notes, and field reports from inside our engagements. Written by the partners who shipped the work, not a marketing team.
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Everything we've written, oldest at the bottom.
- Apr 14, 2026Engineering note9 min read
Evals before prompts: how we ship LLM features.
Every agentic feature we ship begins with a test harness. The prompt is the last thing we tune, not the first thing we write.
- Mar 30, 2026Field report5 min read
The honest deck: what we send before kickoff.
A short, real document we send to partners before week one. It says what we will do, what we won't, and what would make us walk away.
- Mar 12, 2026Essay6 min read
Typography is load-bearing.
The strongest signal of seriousness in a software product is how the type behaves at the edges. Most teams discover this in the rebrand.
- Feb 25, 2026Essay8 min read
The six-to-eighteen-month bet.
Why our engagement length isn't a packaging decision — it's the only window long enough for compounding work and short enough to stay honest.
- Feb 03, 2026Field report6 min read
What survives our exit.
We measure ourselves on what's still load-bearing twelve months after we leave. Here's what that looks like in practice across three engagements.
Ready when you are.
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