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Software that outlasts the hype.
Open source since 2012 — 7,500+ stars on the Go Elasticsearch client. Procurement platforms in production at DAX-listed companies. One person you actually talk to.
Selected work
- Quellwerk — drinking water risk managementRisk management copilot for small water utilities: lab report import, limit early warning, and hazard analysis per DVGW W 1001.
- IntakeAgentic procurement: rethinking procurement for the AI era.
- Johnson Controls Procurement PlatformAI-supported procurement platform with catalog and punchout shopping, rolled out across Europe on AWS.
- Elastic - Elasticsearch Client for GoThe go-to unofficial Elasticsearch client for Go with 7,500+ GitHub stars, used in production since 2012.
What we stand for
Long-term thinking
We build software meant to run for years, not sprints.
Deep expertise
Decades of experience across procurement, logistics, and enterprise systems.
Honest craft
No shortcuts, no bloat. Clean architecture, maintainable code.
Partnership
We work with you, not for you. Your success is ours.
Modern tooling
We adopt what works. AI-assisted engineering lets us move faster and think deeper — not replacing expertise, but amplifying it.
Blog & Notes
AI Watermarking
Claude and others are starting to mark or detect AI content to comply with EU transparency regulation in the AI Act (PDF).
The two approaches are opposites: Anthropic marks at the source, embedding an imperceptible watermark in generated text and attaching signed C2PA provenance metadata to files, while Substack (together with Pangram) works from the receiving end, letting readers run a statistical detector over published posts. Here's a paper describing watermarking for LLMs in detail.
The practice of using Claude to generate content even earned its own term: Claudefishing.
Jacobian Conjectures
Terence Tao, Fields Medal–winning mathematician, discusses the Jacobian conjecture with ChatGPT.Linus on AI
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one. It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today. There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.
Linus on the Kernel mailing list.Most People/Companies aren’t Tool Builders
AI makes it easy for anyone to build tools to automate their work... except most people and most companies aren't tool-builders, don't think like that, and can't and won't do that. This is why software companies and consultants exist - AI changes the thresholds but not the problem.
Another PodcastDario in love
There is this user on X who does videos with her and Dario Amodei. Quite disturbing. But technically: Really good.Reinvent the wheel
I've always been skeptical of those people who tell you to not reinvent the wheel. Seems like the people at Raycast are as well.AI rewards people who know the why
How do world-class design engineers like Emil Kowalski work with AI? They don't fight it — they feed it their taste: articulate the reasons, write them down, hand them over. Bicycles for their mind.
That only works if you have the reasons.
Think about it: Nobody prompts for Bauhaus, Sfumato, or Memphis without knowing design. Nobody steers a model towards a clean software architecture without the scars from a messy one. The lawyer who knows why a clause exists gets a better result than the one pasting boilerplate.
The sleeper skill: writing. People who can write clearly have been prompting their whole lives without knowing it.
Left unguided, LLMs regress to the mean of everything ever written. Median design. Median code. Median advice. AI slop. The why pulls the output off the average. One caveat: never forget that your hard-won experience is also your bubble.
AI doesn't level the playing field. It multiplies whatever you bring — including zero.
Files, not Silos
One aspect of using AI to automate many tasks of my job is that it allows me to work mostly with files. Simple, raw, text files. Any editor opens them. Git versions them, cat and grep simply work. You can copy and paste them, mail them, and post them on Slack.
That's why Jira, Confluence and SharePoint always repelled me. They're silos. There's an API at best. But those silos tend to make it either hard or impossible to work with outside of their own tooling.
Files deserve better. Maybe, one day, even sharing files with other people will be simple.
Shadscan
Shadscan, a static analyzer for your shadcn components. Helps with accessibility, state, and composition regressions.
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