Field Notes

Notes on building things that last.

Short, opinionated pieces on design, engineering, and building with AI — written by the team that ships them, not a content farm.

June 5, 2026 · 9 min
Building with AI

The five stages of an AI project, from start to finish.

Most AI work doesn't fail at the model — it fails at the sequence. The "-ary" Maturity Sequence is the order a build actually has to climb: Elementary, Supplementary, Exemplary, Visionary, Revolutionary. Skip a rung and the whole thing stalls.

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2026 · 30 min
Keynote

The collapsed design cycle.

A 30-minute walkthrough of how we use Claude to design and ship — functional software and marketing pages in days, not months. The full keynote, with the three rules we won't break.

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More field notes on the way.