Blog
Engineering, AI and the projects behind them
Practical writing on custom AI, RAG, healthcare and BIM software, mobile and web development — and case studies from our own work.
Custom Software Development: A Practical Buyer's Guide
Commissioning custom software for the first time? A plain guide to build vs buy, discovery, pricing models, team shape and what a good software company hands over.
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AI in BIM: Practical Uses for Building Information Models
BIM models hold enormous amounts of structured data that teams rarely have time to use. Where AI genuinely helps, from model checking to asking a model questions in plain language.
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Building Cardly: React Native, Expo and Supabase
Cardly replaces the paper business card with one you never reprint. Here is how we built the mobile app, the scanner, the widgets and the web side.
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How We Structure NestJS, Prisma and PostgreSQL Backends
Our default backend stack is NestJS on PostgreSQL, with Redis for queues and caching and Elasticsearch for search. Here is how we structure it and why.
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LLM Agents in Production: Tools, Guardrails and Evaluation
Agents that call tools and take actions are powerful and fragile. The engineering practices that keep them safe, measurable and affordable in production.
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BIM Software Development: IFC, Revit APIs and Web Viewers
IFC parsing, Revit add-ins, browser model viewers and data pipelines — what building software for BIM involves, and where AI earns its place.
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What an AI Consultancy Should Actually Deliver
An AI consultancy is worth hiring when it leaves you with working software and a team that understands it. What to expect at each stage, and what to be wary of.
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Mobile App Engineering: What It Is and Why It Matters
Anyone can assemble screens. Mobile app engineering is the discipline that keeps an app fast, secure and maintainable as it grows from launch to its third year.
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Sumus: AI Product Discovery for Sustainable Fashion
Scan a garment, see its ESG footprint, compare brands. A look at the AI pipeline we built for Sumus and the decisions that kept it honest.
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Building HIPAA- and GDPR-Compliant AI for Healthcare
Compliance is a design input, not a final review. The architectural decisions that make healthcare AI defensible under HIPAA, GDPR and the EU AI Act.
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Scaling Your MVP After a Seed Round: What to Do First
A seed round changes the engineering job. The MVP proved the idea; now it has to handle real users, real load and a bigger team without stalling.
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Ealthiness: Building a Health and Fitness App in React Native
Guided workouts, live run tracking, mood graphs and coaches in one mobile app. A look at how Ealthiness is built and what fitness apps get wrong.
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How to Implement AI in Healthcare Safely
AI in healthcare succeeds on trust, not model size. A practical approach to choosing use cases, protecting data, validating output and fitting AI into clinical workflows.
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From MVP to Scale: Building a Product You Won't Rewrite
An MVP should test your riskiest assumption quickly, but the code that proves the idea should also be the code you grow. Here is how we balance the two.
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Digital Arrow: Building an HR and Recruiting Platform
One workspace for the hiring lifecycle: CVs, async video interviews, timesheets, contracts and invoices. Here is how the platform is put together.
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Custom AI Development vs Off-the-Shelf AI Tools
Off-the-shelf AI tools solve common problems well. Custom AI earns its cost when the value sits in your data, your workflow or your product. Here is how to tell the difference.
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How to Scale a Node.js Application Without a Rewrite
Most Node.js scaling problems are not Node problems. Here is the order we work through when an API starts slowing down under real traffic.
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Next.js for Enterprise Web Development: A Practical Guide
Rendering choices, multi-country i18n with Arabic RTL, SEO, performance and auth — how we approach Next.js for enterprise sites.
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RAG Development: Building Retrieval That Holds Up in Production
Retrieval-augmented generation is easy to demo and hard to run. Here is how we design RAG systems that stay accurate, secure and affordable once real users arrive.
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Building Great React Native Apps with Expo in 2026
React Native with Expo is a sensible default for most mobile products in 2026. Here is how we structure, optimise and ship apps that feel native on iOS and Android.
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