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What technology changes in a business.

Written by people who build for private markets: what slowed a company down, what fixing it took, and what moved afterwards.

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Open-source audit checklist. How do you check whether a project is safe to use?

To check whether an open-source project is safe to use, look at six things: what the licence asks of you, who pays the maintainers, who actually commits, which paid services it depends on, where your data goes, and how quickly security fixes land. A star count answers none of them.

27 SEPTEMBER 2026

Jev vs Laya. Who gets to throw your agent's context away?

Coding agents get worse as old tool output piles up in their context. Jev and Laya both decide what to throw away with a typed answer instead of a summary. One runs as a hosted API, and the other runs on your own GPU.

Why it exists

Most writing about technology in private markets is about AI. This one is about what changed in the business.

Each issue starts with something that slows a business down: a manual close, disconnected systems, reporting that takes a week to say what happened last month. It covers what removing that took, and what changed in the numbers afterwards. AI appears where it was part of the work.