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Engineering notes, product updates, and lessons from building AI-native platforms in production. Written by the team that ships it.

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Sprintsail
April 2026 6 min read

Sprintsail Is Live — Deploy Production Apps in Under 60 Seconds

We built Sprintsail because we kept solving the same infrastructure problems for every client. Now it's live — a fully managed PaaS on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Push your source code, get a running app with database, TLS, monitoring, and auto-scaling. One command. Your cloud account.

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Shortlist
April 2026 5 min read

Shortlist Is Live — A Verified Talent Pipeline That Kills Resume Theatre

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.

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Cloud Infrastructure
March 2026 4 min read

AWS CDK Consulting: What It Is, When You Need It, and What to Expect

We'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.

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AI & Automation
March 2026 7 min read

AI Agent Development for Business: A Practical Guide

We 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.

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Platform Engineering
March 2026 5 min read

The Best Heroku Alternative in 2026

Heroku'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.

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Talent & Recruiting
February 2, 2026 4 min read

Why We Built Shortlist Differently: SME Recruiters and Anti-Fraud by Design

The hiring industry is broken. Fake job postings and keyword-matching algorithms have turned recruiting into a numbers game where nobody wins.

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AI & Government
January 28, 2026 6 min read

NYC Spent $600,000 on an AI Chatbot That's "Basically Unusable"

Here's what went wrong and how to build AI that actually works — lessons from a very public failure.

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