Thoughts, Tips & Insights
Tools and frameworks that help startups build, launch, and iterate faster with small teams.
Most agency quotes are still pretending it's 2023. Here's what an MVP actually costs in 2026 — five tiers, what each one ships, where the price comes from, and the work we won't take at the bottom of the range. Read more
The cheapest tier in our quote sheet. What ships, what doesn't, the stack we don't negotiate on at this price, and the kind of founder this is wrong for. Read more
We've shipped 30+ production builds with Claude Code as a primary tool in the last six months. Here's what works, what gets people in trouble, the exact prompt patterns we use, and what the monthly bill looks like. Read more
Most RAG implementations we audit in 2026 still ship naive embedding-cosine retrieval. They work for the demo and break for users. Here's the current bar for production RAG — hybrid search, reranking, citation-required prompts, evals that catch regressions. Read more
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