What building escrow taught us about state machines
Money moving between two parties is the clearest case we know for modelling state explicitly rather than inferring it from a handful of boolean…
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Deciding what to build before deciding how. Discovery, scope, pricing models and the product calls that turn out to matter most later on.
Scoped permissions are the reason businesses will actually use AI agents
The blocker on agent adoption is not capability. It is that connecting one to your systems usually means granting broad, standing access and hoping.
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A general assistant will attempt anything and promises nothing, so there is nothing to hold it to. BotUp sells AI work the other way…
ReadWhy we built a freelance marketplace that takes no commission
Every marketplace deducts a share of what freelancers earn to fund a trust problem that escrow already solves. Open Lance is the version that…
ReadMVP Development: Fail Fast, Scale Faster
Most first versions fail because nobody wanted them, not because they were built badly. A short guide to validating the assumption before you spend…
ReadSaaS vs. Custom Software: Which Fits Your Business?
Buy what is not your differentiator and build what is. The difficulty is that the boundary moves, and integration costs are routinely underestimated.
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