Engineering notes, product updates, and lessons from building AI-native platforms in production. Written by the team that ships it.
We built Shortlist because traditional hiring is broken — resume fraud, proxy interviews, and no way to verify skills before the offer. Shortlist uses Claude for AI matching and requires every candidate to earn a Verified check through real assessments and an SME interview.
Read articleWe've written CDK for our own platforms and for dozens of client engagements. Here's what we've learned about when CDK is the right choice, when it's not, and what production-grade CDK actually looks like.
Read articleWe build AI agents for Shortlist's candidate matching, Quantum Labs' automation pipelines, and client projects. Here's what we've learned about which agent patterns work in production — and which ones are still research.
Read articleHeroku's pricing has doubled, Salesforce still owns it, and your infrastructure lives in their account — not yours. Here's what growth-stage teams are moving to.
Read articleThe hiring industry is broken. Fake job postings and keyword-matching algorithms have turned recruiting into a numbers game where nobody wins.
Read articleHere's what went wrong and how to build AI that actually works — lessons from a very public failure.
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