Notes · 7 posts
Production AI patterns. EUDR compliance for Kenyan coffee. Offline-first engineering for field teams. How we sell software. What being Claude Community Ambassador for Kenya actually means.
Building in public
The operational problems on the coffee estate we run drove the build — paper registers, WhatsApp payroll, ghost workers. Not a gap in the market. A real problem we lived.
May 2026 · 6 min read
ReadOperating in Kenya
The December 30, 2026 EUDR deadline will lock 1M+ Kenyan smallholders out of the EU market unless geolocation + traceability data is shipped. Here is what compliant software actually requires.
June 2026 · 9 min read
ReadAI Integration
AI features look good in a demo and fall over in production. Four patterns we use to ship Claude integrations that survive real load, real users, and real failure modes.
June 2026 · 10 min read
ReadAI Integration
A coffee estate with 26,000 plants cannot afford to miss leaf rust early. Here is how Claude Vision became the first-pass agronomist on our estate — and the production architecture behind it.
July 2026 · 8 min read
ReadHow we work
Most software studios skip the audit and go straight to a 12-week build. We don't. Here is why our entry-point engagement is a 1-week, $4,500 Sprint — and why both sides win.
June 2026 · 6 min read
ReadEngineering
Connectivity at our coffee estate dies for hours at a time. Here are the offline-first patterns that let supervisors check workers in, log harvests, and run payroll without a working internet connection.
July 2026 · 11 min read
ReadCommunity
The Claude Community Ambassador role is about community building and ecosystem development, not PR. Here is what it actually involves day to day, and why it changes how we ship client work.
May 2026 · 5 min read
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