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Field notes from the build.

Written by the engineers on the work, including the parts that went badly.

Infrastructure · 7 min read

What a private cloud actually costs in year two

The first-year quote is the easy part. Reserved capacity, growth assumptions and the egress you stop paying all move — here is the arithmetic that decides whether the move still looks smart at month eighteen. · 18 Sep 2026

AI · 9 min

Why your RAG pilot answered well and shipped badly

Retrieval quality, permissions and stale indexes turn a great demo into a support ticket. · 02 Sep 2026

Infrastructure · 6 min

Edge inference for plants with unreliable links

What changes when waiting for the network is not an acceptable fallback. · 26 Aug 2026

Business · 5 min

The 24 questions in our AI Blueprint

The checklist we work through before recommending any stack. Use it with any vendor. · 14 Aug 2026

Security · 8 min

Prompt injection is a data problem, not a prompt problem

Why "ignore previous instructions" is the symptom and retrieved content is the cause. · 05 Aug 2026

AI · 11 min

When self-hosting a model actually beats the API

The crossover is a number, not an opinion. Here is how to calculate yours. · 22 Jul 2026

Business · 6 min

We told a client not to build it. Here is why.

A discovery that ended in a recommendation to do nothing, and what it saved. · 09 Jul 2026

Security · 7 min

What a hospital security review actually asks

The twelve questions that decide whether your architecture survives procurement. · 28 Jun 2026

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