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The Hidden Cost of a Round-Trip

When AI compresses days of execution into hours, the day you lose to a vague email stops being invisible. Seven habits to close an issue in one message instead of three.

By Harsh Jain|Jul 6th 2026|6 min read

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Your old core is slowing you down

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Old core standing in the way of new customers? It doesn't have to be that way. Once upon a time rebuilding a legacy core meant locking your best people down on a hard job with uncertain outcomes. Not anymore. Answer five questions, put AI on the grind, and that launch date becomes a solid commitment instead of forlorn hope. This is how we do it.

By Aakash Dharmadhikari|Jul 2nd 2026|8 min read

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Velocity isn't lines per day. It's knowing which lines matter.

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The entire production diff was about 15,000 lines — roughly thirty lines per engineer per day. AI's real contribution wasn't writing them. It was comprehension, not codegen.

By Harsh Jain|Jun 30th 2026|6 min read

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Your AI Roadmap Probably Has Too Much AI

Your AI Roadmap Probably Has Too Much AI

Most production systems should use AI at the edges and deterministic code in the core. As per-token pricing turns honest, a lot of what's on AI roadmaps today won't survive the look.

By Paulomi Gudka|May 21st 2026|6 min read

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AI Transformation Patterns: The Playground

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If you take AI transformation advice at face value, the work looks done once the tools are bought — and the business still moves like it did a year ago. The Playground is the pattern that turns the tools into a business that moves differently.

By Sidu Ponnappa|Apr 27th 2026|12 min read

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Don't Go AI Native

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Going AI Native means one thing: your customers get superhuman speed and superhuman quality no competitor can humanly match. A Head of AI and a Centre of Excellence won't get you there — Parnas, Conway, and Jevons explain why.

By Sidu Ponnappa|Mar 30th 2026|8 min read

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There Is No Product

There Is No Product

The "SaaS is dead" debate is fixated on pricing. The real shift is deeper: AI is converting one class of software after another from a scarce asset into cheap, replicable inventory — and below that line, there is no product.

By Sidu Ponnappa|Feb 19th 2026|10 min read

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Nobody Sets Out to Build a Context Graph

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We tried to fix our timesheets and accidentally built a context graph. Here's what we learned about why operational discipline matters more than architecture.

By Aniket Hendre|Jan 30th 2026|7 min read

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What Happens When You Deploy AI Agents Without Restructuring

What Happens When You Deploy AI Agents Without Restructuring

35% of companies are already using agentic AI, with another 44% planning deployment soon. But few have restructured how they deliver projects. That gap is where implementation timelines extend and where fixed-price engagements turn into scope management problems.

By Sumanth Raj Urs|Dec 3rd 2025|4 min read

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Meet ExoHelp: the AI that eliminates Salesforce delivery friction

Meet ExoHelp: the AI that eliminates Salesforce delivery friction

ExoHelp turns 3-5 day Salesforce requirements into 30-minute sprints. See how AI analysis eliminates clarification cycles and delivers developer-ready tickets instantly.

By Saurav Shah|Aug 20th 2025|5 min read

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So you think running API calls in a loop makes an agent?

So you think running API calls in a loop makes an agent?

New research reveals that simple AI agents fail at enterprise tasks over a third of the time. And the solution isn't just better models.

By Harsh Jain|Mar 7th 2025|6 min read

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Making sense of data without losing your mind

Making sense of data without losing your mind

What if, instead of building better dashboards, we changed how humans interface with data entirely?

By Nikhil Mannikar|Feb 3rd 2025|6 min read

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Here's how to evaluate AI Agents for Enterprise use-cases

Here's how to evaluate AI Agents for Enterprise use-cases

A problem evaluation framework we've developed over the past year for both GenAI founders and investors.

By Sidu Ponnappa|Sep 20th 2024|3 min read

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Dumb agents beat smart ones.

Dumb agents beat smart ones.

You want your agents to be just smart enough to do the task consistently and reliably, and not any smarter than that.

By Sidu Ponnappa|Aug 20th 2024|3 min read

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For Applied AI, Data = Work

For Applied AI, Data = Work

Foundational AI and Applied AI operate on entirely different planes. So, the approach you take to build an applied AI company will also be very different.

By Sidu Ponnappa|May 15th 2024|2 min read

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Evals for Agents are a Hard Problem

Evals for Agents are a Hard Problem

Evaluating an AI tool's performance in real-world workflows is inherently more complex than benchmarking the models themselves on established datasets.

By Sidu Ponnappa|Apr 2nd 2024|2 min read

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Beyond Wrapper Tech

Beyond Wrapper Tech

If you think slapping together a basic interface and calling an API is all it takes, then you're clueless about what's really involved.

By Sidu Ponnappa|Mar 21st 2024|2 min read