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Your old core is slowing you down

Your largest account wants usage-based billing before renewal, and your Oracle core says next year. Rebuilding a legacy core used to be a project you survived; now it's a choice. The five questions — and where AI does the grind while your people make the calls.

Jul 2nd 2026|8 min read

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

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.

Jun 30th 2026|6 min read

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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.

May 21st 2026|6 min read

Your AI Roadmap Probably Has Too Much AI

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AI Transformation Patterns: The Playground

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.

Apr 27th 2026|12 min read

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Don't Go AI Native

Every company is being told to go AI Native: hire a Head of AI, stand up a Centre of Excellence, reorg engineering around agents. For most companies that's the wrong conclusion — and Parnas, Conway, and Jevons explain why.

Mar 30th 2026|8 min read

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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.

Feb 19th 2026|10 min read

There Is No Product

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Nobody Sets Out to Build a Context Graph

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.

Jan 30th 2026|7 min read

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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.

Dec 3rd 2025|4 min read

What Happens When You Deploy AI Agents Without Restructuring

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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.

Aug 20th 2025|5 min read

Meet ExoHelp: the AI that eliminates Salesforce delivery friction

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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.

Mar 7th 2025|6 min read

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

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Making sense of data without losing your mind

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

Feb 3rd 2025|6 min read

Making sense of data without losing your mind

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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.

Sep 20th 2024|3 min read

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

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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.

Aug 20th 2024|3 min read

Dumb agents beat smart ones.

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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.

May 15th 2024|2 min read

For Applied AI, Data = Work

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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.

Apr 2nd 2024|2 min read

Evals for Agents are a Hard Problem

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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.

Mar 21st 2024|2 min read

Beyond Wrapper Tech