Delivery
Why we don't staff juniors on enterprise problems
The real cost of “cheaper” engineers isn't the day rate. It's the six months you spend finding out.
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What we've learned shipping production software.
Short, opinionated notes from delivery and maintenance work — no gated whitepapers, no drip campaigns.
Strategy
Build vs. buy: when a ready-made HRIS beats custom software
Not every problem deserves a bespoke solution. Here's the framework we use with clients before recommending either.
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The maintenance phase is where software actually gets better
Launch is the easy part. What separates systems that compound from systems that rot happens in year two.
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What a good discovery sprint actually produces
If discovery doesn't end in a number you can hold us to, it wasn't discovery — it was a sales call.
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