Things we write down,
occasionally.
Short essays on operational software, professional-services firms, and the implementation work between their systems. Published only when there is something specific to say.
- I. Apr 2026
A weekly half-hour, ten years saved
On the audit pattern that recurs across professional services firms.
Read essay - IV. Apr 2026
Boring choices in operational software
A defence of Postgres, cron, and server-rendered HTML in the era of agentic everything.
Read essay - V. Apr 2026
When the audit says don't build
On the one in five engagements that ends with a recommendation against software.
Read essay - III. Apr 2026
Conflicts at intake
The structural reasons law firms lose qualified leads in the first hour.
Read essay
- II. In draft
Document classification without the platform tax.
Why most accounting firms do not need to buy another vendor; they need a thin layer over the one they already have.
- VI. In draft
The eighteen-month rule for AI features.
How to decide whether a language-model feature should be built today, in eighteen months, or never.
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