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Doctours: Trust Infrastructure for Cross-Border Medical Tourism
A brand and platform foundation designed to support scale, investor confidence, and high-trust medical transactions.
Case Study
Hugo Health: A Preventative Pet Health Platform
A collaborative engagement delivering a production-ready launch platform, working alongside a product design studio on an early-stage pet health product.
Article
After the Ticket: Rethinking How Software Gets Built
The sprint and the ticket worked but they were built for a different era. Explore how AI agents are forcing a rethink of how software teams work
Article
Ambient Execution Systems: The End of the App as We Know It
A structural analysis of the emerging ambient execution layer and the YC-backed companies building infrastructure that makes traditional applications optional.
Article
The Shrinking Team Era: AI, Software, and the End of Traditional Gatekeeping
AI is reshaping software development, lowering barriers to entry and shifting competitive advantage from code to product judgment, design, and execution.
Research
Capital Efficiency in SaaS: Revenue per Employee, 2018–2024
An analysis of revenue per employee across 20 public SaaS companies from 2018 to 2024, examining post-2022 capital efficiency shifts.
Case Study
Doctours: Trust Infrastructure for Cross-Border Medical Tourism
A brand and platform foundation designed to support scale, investor confidence, and high-trust medical transactions.
Case Study
Hugo Health: A Preventative Pet Health Platform
A collaborative engagement delivering a production-ready launch platform, working alongside a product design studio on an early-stage pet health product.
Article
After the Ticket: Rethinking How Software Gets Built
The sprint and the ticket worked but they were built for a different era. Explore how AI agents are forcing a rethink of how software teams work
Article
Ambient Execution Systems: The End of the App as We Know It
A structural analysis of the emerging ambient execution layer and the YC-backed companies building infrastructure that makes traditional applications optional.
Article
The Shrinking Team Era: AI, Software, and the End of Traditional Gatekeeping
AI is reshaping software development, lowering barriers to entry and shifting competitive advantage from code to product judgment, design, and execution.
Research
Capital Efficiency in SaaS: Revenue per Employee, 2018–2024
An analysis of revenue per employee across 20 public SaaS companies from 2018 to 2024, examining post-2022 capital efficiency shifts.
Case Study
Doctours: Trust Infrastructure for Cross-Border Medical Tourism
A brand and platform foundation designed to support scale, investor confidence, and high-trust medical transactions.
Case Study
Hugo Health: A Preventative Pet Health Platform
A collaborative engagement delivering a production-ready launch platform, working alongside a product design studio on an early-stage pet health product.
Article
After the Ticket: Rethinking How Software Gets Built
The sprint and the ticket worked but they were built for a different era. Explore how AI agents are forcing a rethink of how software teams work
Article
Ambient Execution Systems: The End of the App as We Know It
A structural analysis of the emerging ambient execution layer and the YC-backed companies building infrastructure that makes traditional applications optional.
Article
The Shrinking Team Era: AI, Software, and the End of Traditional Gatekeeping
AI is reshaping software development, lowering barriers to entry and shifting competitive advantage from code to product judgment, design, and execution.
Research
Capital Efficiency in SaaS: Revenue per Employee, 2018–2024
An analysis of revenue per employee across 20 public SaaS companies from 2018 to 2024, examining post-2022 capital efficiency shifts.
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