Notes from building software.
What we have learned delivering systems for manufacturers, finance teams, retailers and founders — written for the people who have to live with the result.
What a trading bot can and cannot do for you
An engineer's view, not an advisor's. What automation genuinely changes about executing a strategy, what it does not, and the risk controls that belong in the code rather than in your discipline.
Read articleOperations2 Oct 2026Your billing counter should work when the internet does not
Cloud POS systems assume a connection that plenty of businesses do not reliably have. What offline-first actually means, and why it is a requirement rather than a refinement.
Read articleAutomation2 Oct 2026What to check before you automate a business process
Automating a broken process just produces broken results faster. Four checks worth running first, and the one failure mode that quietly wastes the most money.
Read articleSoftware Strategy2 Oct 2026Custom software or off-the-shelf: how to actually decide
The licence fee is rarely the real cost. A short, honest way to work out which side of this decision you are on -- including when we tell clients not to build.
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