Leads Rangle's agentic product engineering practice, delivering cutting-edge AI-powered solutions for enterprise clients.
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It's Complicated: You, Your SaaS Vendors and PHP2Shell
One decision in 2024, made by people you've never met, became your problem this week.
Modernize Your Stack
Why AI Roadmaps Stall in Regulated Environments
Across regulated industries, the AI roadmap stalls at the same wall: a managed-service stack that cannot host the operational layer agentic workflows need. What sovereign infrastructure means, why AI makes now the moment, and what the actual work looks like.
Agentic Platform Studio
What Is a Developer Now? The Job Got Bigger
The industry agrees on where developer time goes now: more planning, more review. But that story leaves the unit of work untouched. The real shift is appetite and controls: each builder owning bigger, fuzzier scopes and building the systems that make them safe to trust.
Build Engineering Capability
We rebuilt rangle.io for agentic search. Here's what we learned.
Five weeks of buildout, 850 pieces of content off Sanity, one engineer plus Claude. What rebuilding rangle.io for agentic search taught us.
Escape CMS & Commerce Lock-In
Design Tools in the AI Era: What Actually Changed
Design tools used to compete on features. Better prototyping. Smoother collaboration. Faster rendering. That race made sense when design was a human activity and the deliverable was pixels on a screen.
Ship AI Features
What is an Agentic CMS?
Your CMS shouldn't require a vendor's permission to evolve.
Escape CMS & Commerce Lock-In