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Notes from
Notes from
the lab.
Writing on automation, applied AI, and how we build.
Engineering
What shipping Repleni Flow taught us about reliability
Automation that touches money has one rule: it must never fail quietly. The habits we picked up making invoice pipelines boring enough to trust.
EngineeringRAG is plumbing, not magic
Most retrieval problems are data problems wearing a trench coat. What actually moves the needle when you connect an LLM to company documents.
PlaybookHow to spot a workflow worth automating
Not every manual process deserves software. The four questions we ask before we agree to build anything.
How We ThinkWhy we build small systems
Big automation projects fail in familiar ways. Small, sharp tools survive contact with reality. On the thinking behind our first product decisions.
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Ibrahim Abdur Rahman · July 8, 2026 · 5 min read