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Short, opinionated notes on AI-native software, ownership and shipping fast.

Ownership · June 2026
Own the stack your AI runs on

Engineering · June 2026
Most AI never makes it past the pilot
Models are the easy part. Wiring them into a business that can actually run on them is the whole job.

How we work · May 2026
Forward-deployed beats the hand-off
Throwing a spec over the wall is how software goes wrong. Embedding is how it goes right.

AI-native · May 2026
SaaS was a workaround for expensive software
One-size-fits-all software was never the natural order. It was a compromise for a constraint that no longer exists.