The Operations Platform
A full-stack operations system I design, build, and run inside a small custom manufacturer: a product-and-cost engine, quoting, factory costing, and a customer portal.
I build the software that runs a small custom manufacturer.
I work in the open here: the methodology I'm building, the projects I'm in the middle of, and what I'm learning as I go, including how I work with the agent itself, not just the systems. It all points at one aim:making enterprise-grade operations reachable for small manufacturers.
What I'm working on
All projects →Recent writing
All writing →The Invisible Bill of Materials
Service businesses and platforms sit on a decomposable product too. The atoms change: scope units, hours by skill, cost-to-serve. The discipline, and the payoff, do not.
What Makes a Framework a Framework
The eight phases were born in a factory, but their principles say nothing about manufacturing. Separating what is domain-specific from what is not, phase by phase.
The Discipline of Less
For a long time the busiest I felt was the least I finished. On why one thing done all the way beats five at forty percent, and why a product nobody has tried to buy is not yet a product.
Recent notes
All notes →Teaching Everyone at Once
A skill written for your own agent teaches one assistant. Committed into a public repo, it teaches every agent that opens the folder. Two skills from the sandbox run just made that jump.
Teaching It Once
An agent gets better not from cleverer prompts but from corrections that stick: turn every fix into configuration (memories, rules, small skills) so the same mistake never comes back.
Building Solo, With an Agent
I build most of this alone, but not really alone. What working with an AI coding agent actually changes, where it carries real weight, and where you still have to be the one who understands.