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From the shop floor.

How we build agents for small businesses: the workflows we learn, the handoffs we design, and the tools we build on.

What an agent can do for a plumber

A day in a two-van trade business, the parts an agent can take off it, and the parts that should stay human.

  • ai-agents
  • front-desk
  • trades

The handoff is the feature

An agent earns trust by knowing when to stop. How we design the stop condition, the escalation, and the log that makes both reviewable.

  • ai-agents
  • design

Your accounts, not ours

We build on the Gmail, Calendar, HubSpot and Xero you already pay for. Why there is no migration, and who owns what when we leave.

  • workflow
  • integrations

The discovery week

How we learn a workflow before building anything: shadowing the real day, writing the step list, and agreeing what is in scope.

  • discovery
  • methodology
  • process

Internal copilots answer with sources

Why every answer an internal copilot gives has to cite where it came from, and how a small team ends up using one.

  • ai-agents
  • copilots

Why Obsidian became the central brain of every engagement

1.5M users, 22% YoY growth, 2,000+ plugins — and not a dollar of VC. Why local-first Markdown won the AI era, and how we use Obsidian as the durable layer between humans and agents.

  • obsidian
  • knowledge-management
  • ai-agents
  • tooling
  • market-analysis

Spec-driven AI development: why we write specs before code

Why every Twill engagement starts with a spec, and how we choose between Spec Kit, OpenSpec, Superpowers, and Plan mode for the work in front of us.

  • spec-driven
  • methodology
  • ai-agents
  • spec-kit
  • openspec

Introducing Night Shift

Your codebase doesn't clock out at 6pm. Night Shift runs AI agents on your task queue overnight, so you wake up to pull requests — not problems.

  • night-shift
  • ai-agents
  • shipping