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AI-Assisted Development
How AI-assisted development actually works — what ships, what breaks, and what it costs to build production software with AI.
Building with AI
28 articles
What works, what fails, and what it costs
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How a Non-Engineer Built 10 Production Software Systems in 116 Days
Why 80% Complete AI Code Is More Dangerous Than 0% Complete
6 Ways AI-Generated Code Fails in Production (With Real Examples)
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CEM Methodology
25 articles
The operating system for AI-assisted execution
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Why Every Software Project Makes the Next One Faster (and How to Engineer It)
How to Build One Software Architecture and Deploy It Across Multiple Products
How to Recover a Stalled Software Project: A Step-by-Step Framework
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AI Economics
21 articles
The new math of building software with AI
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How the Marginal Cost of New Software Approaches Zero with AI Development
How to Displace $82,000 in SaaS and Contractor Costs with Owned Software Infrastructure
620x Cost Reduction: How a Solo AI Developer Matches a Dev Shop's Output at 0.16% of the Cost
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Business Operator Infrastructure
Infrastructure, lead systems, and SaaS displacement for operators building owned technology.
Lead Gen Infrastructure
25 articles
Build vs. buy for lead generation in 2026
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Lead Generation Tech Stack: What Software You Actually Need in 2026
TCPA Compliance for Lead Generation in 2026: What You Need to Know
Insurance Lead Quality: What Buyers Actually Want and How to Deliver It
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SaaS Displacement
20 articles
An operator's guide to owned infrastructure
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The Hidden Costs of SaaS: Integration Tax, Vendor Lock-In, and Data Fragmentation
How to Run 10 Production Software Systems for $825/Month
Why Unified Data Infrastructure Changes Everything for Business Operations
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Multi-Vertical Scaling
21 articles
The infrastructure approach to multi-vertical expansion
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How to Expand a Digital Product to a New Country in 16 Days
The Cold-Start Problem in Multi-Product Businesses (and How Shared Infrastructure Solves It)
What Transfers Between Products When You Share Software Infrastructure (and What Doesn't)
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PE / Executive
Evidence-backed analysis for decision-makers evaluating AI-enabled operators and build-vs-buy economics.
The Operator Model
23 articles
Evidence for decision-makers evaluating AI-enabled operators
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How to Move from Contractor Dependency to In-House AI-Enabled Development
Software Quality at Scale: How to Achieve a 12.1% Defect Rate vs the 20-50% Industry Average
The Compounding Software Portfolio: How 10 Systems Each Made the Next One Cheaper to Build
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DTC / Performance Marketing
Scaling DTC brands from $100K to $2M/month — attribution, retention, and portfolio discipline.
DTC Operations
23 articles
What operators actually do at $100K/day
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How to Build Real-Time Attribution for DTC (Instead of Buying It)
DTC Subscription Retention: How to Improve Take-Rate from 10% to 40% and LTV from 1 to 4 Months
Managing $100K/Day in Ad Spend: What Changes at Scale in DTC Performance Marketing
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