◆ NOTES FROM THE TEAM

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Founder notes on building AI products that ship. Engineering, hiring, and the unglamorous work behind sound systems.

2026-04-28 · Positioning

Why a senior engineering team beats a 100-person staffing agency for 0→1 builds

How we think about ICP, why "more bodies" is the wrong answer for early product, and where staffing agencies actually win.

2026-04-28 · Engineering

How we built JobCannon: 130+ assessments, sacred-flow architecture, 100% Codex-reviewed money flows

A real technical story — not slides. Slug formats, dispatch tables, lazy mode chunks, adversarial review on every Stripe diff.

2026-04-28 · Hiring

What I look for in senior engineers in 2026 (after hiring 250+)

Resumes lie. Interviews lie less but still lie. Here's the small set of signals I actually trust now.