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Guides and build notes from our own work: what things cost, what to check, and what went wrong when we built it. Each one names who wrote it, and the code is open source.
Guide · 6 min read
Your WordPress site runs on PHP. This week, that is the whole story.
Two critical PHP flaws, fixed on 21 October 2026 in supported versions only. How to find out what your site runs on, what to do today, and when a migration beats a repair.
By Jesus Vasquez
Build an AI front desk, part 1 · 17 min read
The hardest part of a voice agent isn't the AI. It's the silence.
Building a bilingual phone receptionist for a Miami brokerage, when is a caller done talking, what did they actually say, and why the answer to “buy or lease?” kept vanishing.
By Jesus Vasquez
Build an AI front desk, part 2 · 5 min read
My AI told a caller it had texted them. It hadn't.
Notes on SMS consent for AI agents, a state machine, a single gate, and a rule I learned the hard way, never trust the model to report what it did.
By Jesus Vasquez
Build an AI front desk, part 3 · 5 min read
Making “I sent you an email” true, a small, safe email library for AI agents
What I wish the first version of our phone agent's email had done, refuse early, send once, retry only when it makes sense, and tell the model the truth.
By Jesus Vasquez
Build an AI front desk, part 4 · 6 min read
Everything was green, and Instagram sent me nothing
Building a DM bot against Meta's API, three gates between a message and your server, why a valid signature isn't proof of anything fresh, and two clocks that run out quietly.
By Jesus Vasquez
Build an AI front desk, part 5 · 5 min read
One street, three spellings, looking up Florida parcels without guessing
How a county GIS search that works for one county silently misses in another, and what it took to make an address lookup honest about what it found.
By Jesus Vasquez
Build an AI front desk, part 6 · 5 min read
A refresh token that dies when you use it, what I learned from QuickBooks OAuth
Notes on token rotation, a duplicate-invoice guard, and keeping sandbox and production apart, from a client project that went live in a single day.
By Jesus Vasquez
Guide · 9 min read
The exit-readiness checklist: technology and brand before a raise or a sale
Nine short checklists, from code and licences to consent, accessibility and the data-room story, to work through before investors or buyers look.
By Jesus Vasquez & Elizabeth Mendoza
- Get exit-ready
Guide · 8 min read
How much does a fractional CTO cost? Published 2026 prices, compared
Six providers' published fractional CTO prices, what the role covers, when to hire one, and how it compares with a full-time CTO or an agency.
By Jesus Vasquez
- Launch
- Get exit-ready
Guide · 8 min read
How much does an MVP cost? Published 2026 prices, and what they should buy
Four studios' published MVP prices, the factors that move the number, and the checklist a senior team builds in from the first release.
By Jesus Vasquez
- Launch