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Software, AI, and product development notes

Practical guides on MVP cost, agentic workflows, production AI, API integrations, and business automation.

How to Estimate MVP Development Cost: 2026 Guide

A practical framework for estimating an MVP from product risk, user flows, integrations, and operating needs, not screen count.

Updated: August 9, 2026

AI and automation8 min read

AI Agent or Business Automation? Choosing the Right Fit

A practical guide to deciding which business tasks need deterministic automation and which benefit from an AI agent that can use tools.

Updated: August 9, 2026

AI in production10 min read

How Does AI Work Reliably in Production? Permissions, Approvals, Logs, and Fallbacks

A practical guide to moving AI from demo to production with guardrails, human approval, evaluations, logs, and fallbacks.

Updated: August 9, 2026

Integration engineering9 min read

Why Do API Integrations Fail? Webhooks, Retries, and Idempotency

A practical guide to resilient API and webhook integrations: data contracts, retries, idempotency, and observability.

Updated: August 9, 2026

AI integrations9 min read

What Is MCP? A Guide to Connecting AI Agents to Business Tools

A practical guide to how MCP can help AI agents work with business tools in a controlled way, and where it fits.

Updated: August 9, 2026

AI support workflows8 min read

AI Agents in Customer Support: What Should Be Automated?

A guide to using AI agents in support by task, risk, and approval level while reducing workload without damaging customer experience.

Updated: August 9, 2026

Sales operations8 min read

Turning Business Data into Lead Lists: From Research to Sales Workflow

How to turn business research from scattered copy-paste work into clean, usable lead lists connected to a sales workflow.

Updated: August 9, 2026

API and product integrations8 min read

When Do You Need a Live Price API? A Guide for E-commerce and Jewellery Software

A practical guide to evaluating freshness, caching, failure handling, and product scope when bringing price data into e-commerce, mobile, or jewellery software.

Updated: August 9, 2026

6 min read

MVP or custom software?

How to decide between fast validation and long-term architecture.

Updated: November 12, 2025

5 min read

What to watch when choosing integrations

Common mistakes in APIs, webhooks, and data sync.

Updated: October 28, 2025

7 min read

How to add AI features to your product

A practical framework for production AI, not demos.

Updated: September 15, 2025

5 min read

When to accept technical debt

The difference between deliberate debt and accidental complexity.

Updated: August 2, 2025