What do you need the computer to do?
We build software, configure computers, and work with the software you already have.
These articles capture ideas we thought were worth sharing at a point in time. Our perspective changes as we learn. What we believed in May can look different by August. The toolbox records how our thinking develops.
These articles capture ideas we thought were worth sharing at a point in time. Our perspective changes as we learn. What we believed in May can look different by August. The toolbox records how our thinking develops.
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We build software, configure computers, and work with the software you already have.
Smaller companies, smaller teams, more entrepreneurs, and more people producing independently.

The same raw thoughts went into Codex, Claude, and Quillbot. How each organized them, and what we decided.
Capacity, not data, is the real constraint. A small first build starts with one volunteer-to-donor problem.
No. It resolves to structure an agent can name, and code is only the sharpest version of that.
Software fights entropy in perpetuity. The honest model is recurring reinvestment, not a one-time monument.
A decision practice, not a diagram practice: lower risk, raise the quality of every other decision.
A deficiency list is not a strategy. Design the future you want before removing the pain you have.
A company can get bigger every year and no more able than before.
Control can rise while the system's capacity to perform falls.
Software that can take a goal, choose the next steps, and use tools to carry them out.
The trained system that reads, reasons, and writes. It is the engine inside the agent.
The instructions and context given to the model. Most of the quality comes from what you put in front of it.
Everything the model can see while it works: the request, files, history, rules, and source material.
The small chunks of text a model reads and writes. Length, cost, and memory pressure are counted in tokens.
A capability the agent can call: read a file, search the web, run code, send a message, or update a record.
Saved context that carries across sessions, so work starts with the person, business, and rules already in view.
A reusable way to do one kind of work well, with the steps, standards, and sources already packaged.
A result produced by an agent: an email, invoice, brief, document, build, or decision record.