Field notes on building and running AI inside mid-market companies: what a forward-deployed engineer does all week, how to pick an AI model without lock-in, what the day-90 checkpoint measures, and why we do not bill by the hour. The posts from the earlier Webaroo blog follow, under their own heading.
Oct 12 2026 / Webaroo
No slides, no status meeting. At day 90 or 120, your own finance metric shows whether the first system moved the number from the assessment.
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Field notes
Oct 12 2026
Since January 2026, insurers can exclude generative AI from general liability at renewal, using ISO forms CG 40 47, CG 40 48 and CG 35 08 (Risk Specialty Group).
Oct 12 2026 / Roo
When the model is a setting, switching is a config change plus a test run on your own cases, so the choice stays reversible.
Oct 12 2026 / FDE Pod
The week starts at your standup and runs on tickets, pull requests, automated checks on every change, and a named person approving any merge that touches money or access.
Oct 5 2026 / AI Assessment
A fixed fee for a written scope puts the vendor and the budget owner on the same side of the table. Here is how it works, and what it is not.
Kept for the record. We build and run AI inside mid-market companies, and the field notes above are about that work.
Apr 27 2026 / Archive
How AI agents move from session memory to persistent context: the memory layers, the storage strategies, and the production patterns that scale.
Apr 27 2026 / Archive
Proven orchestration patterns for multi-agent AI systems: hub-and-spoke, pipeline, swarm and hierarchical, and how to implement each one.
Apr 27 2026 / Archive
China's new Five-Year Plan makes quantum computing a national security priority, and changes the timeline on which Western enterprises need to act.
Apr 27 2026 / Archive
DeepMind's SIMA plays 3D video games by following plain English instructions. Why it matters beyond gaming, and what it signals for AI agents.
Apr 27 2026 / Archive
Why developer experience is the operating advantage most leaders ignore: the friction that slows engineering teams, and the playbook for fixing it.
Apr 27 2026 / Archive
Where venture capital flowed in Q1 2026: the mega-rounds, the sectors commanding premium valuations, and the adjustments founders must make to raise.
Mar 19 2026 / Archive
The monorepo was supposed to solve everything. One repository, one source of truth, atomic changes across services, simplified dependency management.
Mar 19 2026 / Archive
Government commitments, record revenue and IPO filings: why quantum computing is crossing from interesting research to strategic necessity.
Mar 17 2026 / Archive
React Server Components (RSC) have gone from experimental curiosity to production standard faster than anyone predicted.
Mar 10 2026 / Archive
Self-driving laboratories combine AI, machine learning and robotics to run experiments on their own, changing drug discovery and materials science.
Mar 4 2026 / Archive
Why companies are starting to ask how much revenue their engineering team generates, not how much it costs, and what that does to the IT budget.
Feb 15 2026 / Archive
Forget training. The real AI war is about running models at scale, and a new generation of infrastructure companies is racing to win it.
Feb 13 2026 / Archive
Skild AI, Apptronik, Bedrock Robotics raised major rounds. Deep analysis of the robotics funding wave and what it means for developers.
Feb 12 2026 / Archive
What happens in a software build, why continuous integration needs frequent builds, and how AWS CodeBuild automates and configures them.
Feb 10 2025 / Archive
How Unity and Unreal compare for augmented and virtual reality: learning curve, graphics, hardware support, community and licensing, and which fits.
Feb 10 2025 / Archive
An internal team or a technology partner for your platform? The trade-offs in control, speed, overhead and expertise, and how to choose.
Feb 10 2025 / Archive
How edge computing processes data close to the source to reduce latency, improve security and enable real-time analytics in manufacturing and healthcare.
Feb 10 2025 / Archive
How AI chatbots use natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to improve customer interactions, automate support and scale operations.
Feb 10 2025 / Archive
The latest fintech innovations in payment processing: contactless mobile payments, blockchain transactions and AI-powered fraud detection.
Feb 10 2025 / Archive
How AI, big data and advanced analytics are changing stock market trading: predictive models, real-time insights and data-driven investing.
Feb 10 2025 / Archive
Explore how blockchain technology strengthens supply chain security with real-time tracking, anti-counterfeit measures, and smart contracts.
Webaroo's field notes are short posts on building and running AI inside mid-market companies: what a forward-deployed engineer does all week, how to pick an AI model without lock-in, what the day-90 checkpoint measures, and why we do not bill by the hour.
The archive holds the posts from the earlier Webaroo blog, kept for the record. We build and run AI inside mid-market companies, and the field notes are about that work.
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