Insights & Essays.
Field notes for CTOs and principal engineers: what shipped, what failed, and how to staff the next AI program. Depth first — no vendor recap.
Latest Articles
The Brief as Machine-Routable Work Unit: Replacing Tickets with Verification-Driven Outcomes
Discover why traditional Jira and Linear tickets fail autonomous AI agents, and how modern PM 3.0 product organizations replace activity tracking with Machine-Routable Briefs, automated verification gates, and real-time OKR outcome attribution.
Designing Custom MCP Servers for Developer Agents: Exposing Local Tools to Claude and Cursor
A complete step-by-step developer tutorial on creating custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in Node.js and Python to expose local databases, git.
MCP Server Factory: Enterprise Tool Registries, Auth, and Governance at Scale
Stop running one-off MCP servers per developer. Learn how to build a production MCP registry with OAuth, mTLS, versioning, and shadow-MCP governance for
Agentic Workflows in Enterprise CRM - Transforming Lead-to-Cash Automation
Agentic Workflows Enterprise CRM 2026 — Agentic Workflows in Enterprise CRM - Transforming Lead-to-Cash Automation Expert analysis and implementation gu
The Chief Agent Officer (CAO) - Architecting the Autonomous Enterprise
Chief Agent Officer CAO 2026 — The Chief Agent Officer (CAO) - Architecting the Autonomous Enterprise Expert analysis and implementation guidance by Vat
The Agentic Mesh: Architecting Autonomous Swarms with LangGraph and MCP
agentic mesh — Move from single LLM agents to decentralized, peer-to-peer agent swarms. Architect persistent, state-aware meshes using LangGraph and Mod
External Standards & Publications
Our engineering publications follow industry standards for software architecture and agentic AI systems. Read more about technical specifications at the IEEE Standards Association and general web engineering principles at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).