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What we learn building custom software, AI systems and infrastructure. Practical, specific, written by the engineers who did the work.
We write about the problems we solve for clients and in our own products: custom MCP servers, self-hosted AI, mobile migrations and running production workloads on our own EU hardware. No listicles, no recycled trends.
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01AI customer support agents: what SMBs get wrong when deploying them Hallucinated refund policies, no human handoff, the wrong metrics. The most common mistakes SMBs make with AI support agents and what to do instead.02How to build a custom MCP server for your company data (with a real architecture) A practical MCP server architecture for company data: auth, per-user scoping, tool design and sandboxed processing, EU-hosted. Free roadmap in 24h.03Ionic to React Native migration: what we learned maintaining an app with hundreds of thousands of users Lessons from maintaining an Ionic app with hundreds of thousands of users while building its React Native successor: parity, auth, push and rollout.04Self-hosted AI for European SMBs: what actually works in 2026, cost and GDPR When self-hosted AI makes sense for European SMBs: open-weight models, GPU sizing, RAG, GDPR and a cost framework. Founder-led, EU-hosted advice.05Why we host client apps on our own EU hardware instead of hyperscalers (and when we don't) Flat cost, more performance per euro, data that never leaves the EU. Why we run client apps on dedicated German hardware, and when AWS is the better call.
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