Dispatches from the build.

Why agents need a Canon before they need a prompt.

The mistake every first-time builder makes: treating prompts as the instruction layer. They aren't.

CAC doesn't fall because you added AI. It falls because you removed the humans who shouldn't have been there.

The uncomfortable math of pipeline compression and what it actually costs to deploy it honestly.

Auditability is not a feature. It's the product.

Why PE-grade AI deployments live or die on whether the board can trace a decision back to its source.