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Notes from
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Engineering deep-dives, design notes and field reports from the teams behind Forsa, Zunu, Navvo, QAce, Kemble, Vollo and Virox.

Two surfaces, one messaging core
kemble aug 2026 8 min

Two surfaces, one messaging core

Why Kemble Work and Kemble Circle are the same product wearing different clothes, and what it takes to make one permission model serve a company and a community at once.

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Voice is four problems pretending to be one
vollo aug 2026 7 min

Voice is four problems pretending to be one

Recognition, synthesis, understanding and orchestration each have their own failure modes. Stitching four vendors together is why most voice products feel broken.

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One million meals, rescued one surprise bag at a time
forsa jul 2026 6 min

One million meals, rescued one surprise bag at a time

How Forsa's matching engine decides which bags go live, when prices drop, and why 95% off still makes sense for a bakery at 9pm.

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Why we rebuilt the ERP around a single data layer
zunu jul 2026 11 min

Why we rebuilt the ERP around a single data layer

Most ERPs are decades-old suites moved to the cloud. A look at the architecture that lets Zunu propagate a posting across every module in 0.4 seconds.

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Teaching a map to think in two languages at once
navvo jul 2026 8 min

Teaching a map to think in two languages at once

"وين أقرب صيدلية مفتوحة؟" should work exactly as well as the English. Inside Navvo's bilingual search.

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Record-and-replay is dead. Agents reason about your app instead
qace jul 2026 9 min

Record-and-replay is dead. Agents reason about your app instead

Brittle selectors snap on every refactor. Here's how QAce relocates elements by role, text and context.

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Your files, your rules: designing storage enterprises can trust
virox jul 2026 7 min

Your files, your rules: designing storage enterprises can trust

Granular permissions, auditable sharing and sync that never surprises you, the principles behind Virox.

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One house, seven ventures: how we choose what to build next
drinktea jul 2026 5 min

One house, seven ventures: how we choose what to build next

Every venture starts with the same question, is this broken in a way that craft can fix?

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