Engineering notes from the team.
AEC tech, 3D pipelines, project management, and the practices we use to ship production-grade software.
How to Protect Claude Artifacts: A Guide for Teams Building Real Tools
Four questions decide how to protect a Claude artifact, from keeping it as it is to rebuilding it as a real app. Follow the chart to find your path.
engineering · strategy
IMAGINiT ACCelerate vs HUDA for Autodesk Forma user management
IMAGINiT ACCelerate vs HUDA: two ways to bulk-manage Autodesk Forma users. What each does, what each costs, and which fits your hub. Honest comparison.
engineering
How we built a support tool in an hour to fix one broken scan
A bug merged a customer's 3D house scan wrong, with a Saturday deadline. Instead of a two-week fix or a full rescan, we had Claude build a visual repair tool in an hour.
engineering · strategy
Agile with AI: the bottlenecks we hit and the tools we built
When AI made execution cheap, the bottleneck moved from writing code to reviewing and shipping it. Here's what broke in our workflow and the tools we built to fix it.
strategy · engineering
Turning floorplan PDFs into data your team can use
AI can pull data out of floorplan PDFs now. Here are the two things that separate a demo that works once from a tool your team can actually rely on.
strategy
How we cut an AWS bill by 61%, line by line
We read an AEC client's AWS bill line by line and cut it 61%, about $26,900 a year. The order is the point: fix defects first, right-size next, buy discounts last.
engineering · strategy
What IWF Atlanta 2026 taught us about wood framing (and why we're building Panelize.app)
Takeaways from IWF 2026 Atlanta: prefab wall panels went industrial, the bottleneck moved from machine to data, and the bottom of the market is still unserved.
engineering · strategy
Naviate Cloud Manager vs HUDA for Autodesk Forma user management
Once you run users across dozens of Autodesk Forma (ACC) projects and hubs, doing it by hand stops scaling. There are many solutions to automate it; HUDA is free and stores none of your data. How to pick.
engineering
Why two software founders got certified as steel framing installers
We got certified as steel framing installers to build better AEC software. What a jobsite teaches that a requirements doc never will.
engineering · strategy
Vibe coding is cheap. Winning still isn't
Is vibe coding the future? Yes, for the cheap part. Code was a real moat and AI is draining it. Here's the part it can't touch, the one that decides who wins.
strategy · engineering
Agile in the age of AI: the values hold, the rituals change
Rigid Scrum ceremonies lost the plot. The Agile Manifesto's core values hold up better than ever now that AI makes code generation cheap and pushes docs into the code.
strategy · engineering
Scan it, own it: a free LiDAR scanner with no tiers
Capture a room with LiDAR and export DXF, USDZ, a quantities PDF, photos and notes. On-device, free, ad-free. No account, no paid tier.
3d · engineering · threejs
How to hire software developers in Latin America
Hiring software developers in Latin America on price alone is a race to the bottom. Here is what actually compounds: timezone overlap, senior judgment, and a win-win that survives.
strategy
Get the most value of your tokens with nearshore software development using Claude
An agentic pipeline cut delivery from 41 days to 12. The 55 production issues automated checks missed are the part senior engineers still own.
strategy · engineering
Why Real Estate Software Development Stops Costly Mistakes
Build vs buy a source of truth for real estate? We've built it four times. The value isn't the feature list. It's the guardrails that catch mistakes early.
strategy
Mastering error handling in AEC tech: strategies for crisis management
Proven strategies to handle errors in AEC technology with confidence: troubleshoot issues, minimize downtime, and ensure project success.
engineering
The elegance of minimalist project management
How small senior engineering teams ship AEC software faster than the 'big team' approach. Lagarsoft's structure, trade-offs, and operating model.
engineering
Supercharge your data dashboard with a Three.js globe
How we rebuilt Google's WebGL globe in Three.js as a production data visualization dashboard. Architecture, tradeoffs, and a live demo inside.
threejs
USDZ to Three.js: iOS Scan Pipeline with Visual Fidelity
A USDZ-to-Three.js pipeline that converts iOS RoomPlan LiDAR scans into web-renderable 3D scenes. Architecture, USDZ-to-JSON converter, and live demo.
3d · threejs
Exploring T-Shaped Knowledge and LLMs in Software Engineering
Why T-shaped engineers, paired with LLMs, deliver better outcomes on AEC software projects. Cross-functional depth, hiring, and team dynamics.
engineering