The lab blog

How each app was built: brief, agents, checks, what went wrong. Long write-ups, first person.

• From proto to production: how Seantral became autonomous
  1 September 2026 · 8 min
  The first app in the lab to complete the cycle: born on the shared backend, it now lives on its own domain and backend. The agentic workflow that got it there, phase by phase, is now part of the method.
• How RiftSeed is built: the stack, the method, and how I work with AI
  12 July 2026 · 10 min
  One engineer, a shared foundation, and real apps built with AI agents under human review. What’s underneath, and how I actually work on it.
• Seantral: how it works inside, and the things that broke
  18 June 2026 · 8 min
  Marine forecasts turned into an honest verdict. The map was the easy part. The hard part was not lying when the data goes missing.
• How the AI brief works: from your problem in plain words to a spec
  15 April 2026 · 9 min
  The point every project in the lab starts from. You describe a problem, the AI helps squeeze it into requirements that then become the spec an agent works against.
• The chatbot: two tiers, the tools, and the rules it must not break
  24 February 2026 · 8 min
  One component for three assistants, a free model for anonymous users and a better one for those who sign in, tools that pull from the same engine as the map. And the error that didn’t shout.