Thoughts
Ideas, insights, and perspectives on technology and business.
Not all apps are created equal: a classification framework for AI-assisted development
Your team just shipped a prototype in two days using Lovable and a couple of screenshots. Next sprint, you're building a HIPAA-compliant consumer platform for 50,000 users. Same tooling, same process? That's how projects go sideways. We developed a four-class framework for categorizing app...
Bespoke vs SaaS — the control and ownership angle
You built the client relationships. You trained the team. You developed the process. Then you handed the infrastructure that runs all of it to a vendor who answers to their investors, not to you. SaaS is convenient....
Bespoke vs SaaS — the competitive parity angle
SaaS is a catalogue. Every business in your industry browses the same one. Same CRM. Same project tool. Same automation platform....
Bespoke vs SaaS — the hidden cost angle
$49 a month sounds like nothing. Then you add five more tools to fill the gaps the first one left. Then you hit the user limit and upgrade. Then the API you rely on gets paywalled in the next pricing tier. Then your team spends 20 minutes every day working around a workflow the software wasn't b...
Attributes of bespoke software
What distinguishes bespoke software from custom.