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Guides for buying and building better business technology.

Web design, custom software, SaaS products, AI applications, agency partnerships, and original research — grounded in production work and documented methods.

Custom Software
AI-Built Projects

Vibe Coding Security Checklist Before You Launch

Review authentication, database permissions, secrets, payment webhooks, uploads, and monitoring before you launch a vibe-coded or AI-generated application.

October 17, 2026 · 8 min read
AI-Built Projects

Lovable SEO: How to Make a Website Discoverable on Google

Make a Lovable website discoverable in Google with indexing checks, page titles, canonical tags, useful content, internal links, and Search Console.

October 17, 2026 · 9 min read
AI-Built Projects

Lovable App to Production: A Developer Handoff Checklist

Hand off a Lovable prototype to developers with a checklist for GitHub, database rules, payments, testing, deployment, monitoring, and app ownership.

October 17, 2026 · 7 min read
AI-Built Projects

How to Hire a Developer to Finish an AI-Built Website

Learn how to hire a developer to finish an AI-built website, share the right project details, compare proposals and avoid paying to rebuild what works.

October 17, 2026 · 7 min read
AI-Built Projects

How to Take an AI-Built Prototype Into Production

A practical checklist for taking an AI-built prototype to production: ownership, permissions, tests, payments, deployment, monitoring, and support.

October 17, 2026 · 8 min read
AI-Built Projects

How Much Does It Cost to Finish an AI-Built Website or App?

What drives the cost of finishing an AI-built website or app: scope, data, payments, integrations, security, hosting, testing, and handoff, before a quote.

October 17, 2026 · 6 min read
AI-Built Projects

SEO Checklist for AI-Built Websites Before Launch

Check an AI-built website for Google crawlability, indexability, page structure, mobile speed, analytics, and the searches your customers make.

October 17, 2026 · 12 min read
Custom Software

Taking Over Existing Software: A Responsible Transition Plan

Plan a software takeover by verifying ownership, access, architecture, data, integrations, security, deployment, monitoring, backlog, and operating risk.

September 3, 2026 · 6 min read
Custom Software

Software Development Proposal: What Buyers Should Require

Evaluate a software proposal by its release scope, assumptions, acceptance criteria, ownership, integrations, security, operations, and change process.

September 3, 2026 · 6 min read
Custom Software

Internal Tools Development Cost: Budgeting an Operations Release

Plan an internal software budget around workflow states, permissions, integrations, data quality, exception handling, reporting, migration, and operations.

September 3, 2026 · 4 min read
Custom Software

How to Scope Operational Software Before Development Begins

Turn a manual workflow into an implementation-ready software release with users, states, rules, data, integrations, risks, and acceptance criteria.

September 3, 2026 · 5 min read
Custom Software

Customer Portal Development Cost: Scope and Budget Guide

Plan a customer portal budget around identity, permissions, records, documents, payments, requests, integrations, administration, migration, and security.

September 3, 2026 · 4 min read
Custom Software

Custom Software Development Cost: A Responsible 2026 Planning Guide

Plan a custom software budget using users, workflows, data, permissions, integrations, testing, and operations instead of an unsupported feature estimate.

September 3, 2026 · 5 min read