Insights
How we think about the work.
Written for people who have to make a decision about a system — not for search engines, though we hope they find it useful too.
Why your software breaks in year three
Systems rarely fail on delivery. They fail when the third change collides with an assumption nobody wrote down. Here is the mechanism, and what prevents it.
AI agents: what they are genuinely good at, and where they fail
An honest split of the work agents close, the work they can only draft, and the work they should never touch — with the test we use to decide which is which.
What a proper software handover contains
Ten items. If your developer cannot produce them, you do not own your software in any practical sense — whatever the contract says.
Start a conversation
Tell us what the system has to do.
Describe the problem in a paragraph and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it — and roughly what it costs before you spend anything.