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Field Notes From Production

No thought-leadership filler. Practical lessons from building AI systems, SaaS platforms, and automation — written by the people doing the work.

Artificial Intelligence

RAG vs. Fine-Tuning: When to Use What in 2026

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The two dominant strategies for adapting LLMs to your data solve different problems. Here's a practical decision framework from dozens of production deployments.

Tyigo EngineeringJun 18, 2026 8 min read

SaaS

The 5 Pricing Mistakes That Quietly Kill SaaS Startups

Your pricing page is your most important product surface. These five mistakes show up in almost every early-stage SaaS we audit — and each has a fix.

May 30, 2026 7 min

Software Development

Why Software Projects Fail (And the Process That Prevents It)

Most failed software projects die from the same three causes — and none of them are technical. Here's the delivery process we've refined to keep projects alive.

May 12, 2026 6 min

Automation

The Automation ROI Playbook: Finding Your First 1,000 Hours

Most companies automate the wrong processes first. This playbook shows how to score candidates, sequence wins, and use AI where rules break down.

Apr 22, 2026 7 min

Cloud

Your Cloud Bill Is 40% Waste: A Field Guide to Fixing It

Cloud audits keep finding the same money leaks. Here are the usual suspects, roughly ordered by savings-per-effort, from dozens of infrastructure reviews.

Apr 3, 2026 6 min

Cybersecurity

The Security Basics Startups Skip (Until the Incident)

You don't need a CISO to avoid the breaches that kill young companies. You need these eight practices, most of which cost a day each to implement.

Mar 15, 2026 7 min

Startup

How to Scope an MVP That Actually Validates Something

Most 'MVPs' are just small products that test nothing. Here's the scoping method we use to get founders from idea to evidence in under ten weeks.

Feb 26, 2026 6 min

Product Design

Design Systems: The Unsexy Investment That Doubles Product Velocity

Past a certain size, products don't slow down from technical debt alone — they slow down from design debt. Here's when and how to invest in a system.

Feb 5, 2026 6 min

Technology Trends

The 2026 Technology Trends That Are Actually Real

Separating signal from noise across this year's technology landscape: what we're seeing deployed in production versus what remains conference-talk vapor.

Jan 15, 2026 8 min

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