Part 0
Essay
I'm Writing a Series. Here's What It's About.
Why I am writing about building a suite of AI co-workers in public — what the series covers and who it is for.
First published on Substack
Writing
Most writing about AI is hype from people who are not shipping, or fear from people who have not used the tools. This is neither: what we built, what it cost, what broke, and the arithmetic underneath the claims.
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Part 0
Essay
Why I am writing about building a suite of AI co-workers in public — what the series covers and who it is for.
First published on Substack
Part 1
Essay
Why an embedded systems company bet on LLMs: a raise, a new tax regime, and accounting software that was never built for business owners.
First published on Substack
Part 2
Essay
What shipping production software almost entirely through AI coding agents actually looks like — and the rules I now refuse to break.
Part 2.5
Technical companion
The monolith, the wrappers, the Accounting OS refactor, the dual-agent system, the clean rebuild — and what each one cost to learn.
Part 3
Essay
How an internal tool becomes a company, and the specific kind of feedback loop you only get from building for yourself first.
Part 4
Essay
The business thesis: accounting was the first module, not the product. What a suite of AI co-workers sharing one memory actually changes.
Part 5
Essay
Three rules for designing software where the model is the product, not a feature bolted onto the corner of one.
Part 6
Essay
How a deal that died two years ago came back as a UK reseller partnership — and what it taught me about product versus platform.
Part 7
Open call
An open call for the founding team: who I am hiring in Nigeria, what the work is, and what the trade looks like.
Shorter pieces from inside the build.
Field journal
Fourteen hours, six of them debugging, and one moment at 1:30 AM where the night turned around. What building with an AI assistant looks like when the easy answers run out.
Field note
What it looks like when two AI co-workers share one customer: a support conversation that quietly became accounting evidence.