Engineering

AI-built apps break first at authorisation, database access rules, leaked secrets and unverified payment webhooks, not at the feature they were built to demo. They fail at the thing nobody demonstrate

A code audit report earns its fee when it contains four things: an executive summary the person paying can act on, findings ranked by severity that cite specific files and lines, an architecture asses

Technical due diligence rarely kills a round. It re-prices one, and it does so at the worst possible moment: after the term sheet exists, when the fund has already decided it wants in and you have alr

A code audit for an early-stage startup costs somewhere between $49 and $15,000. That spread is not vendor margin. It is how many hours a senior engineer spends inside your system, and whether a perso

Comparing AI models on vibes is how products end up 10x over budget. The comparison that holds up is cost per completed task, latency at your context size, and behaviour on your own eval cases, not le

The 2026 MVP stack is seven tools deep: an AI coding environment (Cursor or Claude Code), a UI scaffolder (v0 or Lovable), Supabase for the backend, Vercel for deployment, Stripe for payments, PostHog

Choosing an AI development agency comes down to five checks: production evidence, compliance literacy, who writes the code, how the price is structured, and who owns the IP on day one. This guide give

Most AI features in regulated products die in the gap between the demo and the audit. The model works, the founder shows it to the board, and then someone from compliance asks a question the system ca

The AI prototype looks great in the demo: a notebook, a few example inputs, an impressive output in the board deck. Then months pass and it never ships, or it ships and falls over. This is the most co

Retrieval-augmented generation is the default architecture for most production LLM applications now, and for good reason: it's how you get a model to answer from your data instead of its training set.

Across the agency market in 2026, quoted budgets for an AI MVP mostly land between $15,000 and $150,000+, and where you fall in that range comes down to five drivers: scope, model strategy, data plumb

There's a failure mode common to almost every AI stack decision we see: teams optimize the wrong layer. They spend weeks benchmarking models and picking a framework, then ship a system that breaks on

The stack for building an AI agent in 2026 is smaller than the tool lists suggest: a frontier model with solid tool-calling, one orchestration layer (LangGraph or CrewAI for code-first teams, n8n for