GUIDES

Technical Guides Practical, Hands-On Playbooks

— On the record

Step-by-step guides our team wrote because the existing answers weren't good enough. Covering web, software, design systems, and AI deployment.

— Process

The Project Scoping Playbook

A complete framework for scoping web and software projects — workshops, audits, and writing fixed-scope proposals that don't blow up.

May 2026 22 min read
ScopingProposalsDiscovery
— Design

Building a Design System From Scratch

Step-by-step: tokens, primitives, components, documentation, and the Figma → code handoff that survives team changes.

Apr 2026 35 min read
Design SystemsFigmaTokens
— Web

Astro Performance Optimization Guide

How to ship Astro sites that score 95+ on Lighthouse — partial hydration, image strategy, fonts, and edge caching.

Apr 2026 25 min read
AstroPerformanceLighthouse
— Web

Picking a Web Tech Stack in 2026

A decision tree for choosing the right stack — Astro vs Next.js, edge vs origin, REST vs GraphQL, and when to break the rules.

Mar 2026 20 min read
Tech StackArchitectureDecision
— Software

Multi-Tenant SaaS Architecture

Tenant isolation strategies for production SaaS — shared schema, schema-per-tenant, the hybrid model, and when each makes sense.

Mar 2026 30 min read
SaaSArchitectureMulti-Tenant
— AI

On-Premise LLM Deployment Guide

The hardware, network, and ops setup we use to deploy private LLMs — GPU clusters, model serving, monitoring, and security.

Feb 2026 32 min read
LLMOn-PremiseInfrastructure
— AI

Fine-Tuning Without Hallucinations

A practical guide to fine-tuning open models on your data — dataset prep, evaluation, and avoiding catastrophic forgetting.

Feb 2026 28 min read
Fine-TuningEvaluationLLM
— AI

Building Production AI Agents

Architecture patterns for AI agents that actually work — tool use, memory, planning, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks.

Jan 2026 30 min read
AI AgentsArchitectureProduction
— Design

Accessibility for Engineers Who Hate Process

The 80/20 of WCAG 2.1 AA — the practices that genuinely matter for real users, without the box-ticking theatre.

Jan 2026 18 min read
AccessibilityWCAGUX