$240K ARR Packaging Public Design Signals
How PixelDocket turned normalized catalog and component benchmarks into a recurring data product for agencies — without scraping behind logins.
Journal
Field notes
Essays from running a small product studio focused on design data, LLM infrastructure, cloud delivery, and integrity tooling.
PromptHarbor: $0 to $95K MRR, Slowly
Monthly notes from bootstrapping an LLM gateway — pricing meters, evaluation hooks, and the integrations that finally shortened enterprise security reviews.
Winning an $800K R&D Award for Cloud Integrity Research
How VantageFence framed a narrow security hypothesis, passed technical review, and kept milestones aligned with product roadmap reality.
Inside the VantageFence Signal Stack
Layered network, behavioral, and cross-session signals we use to score suspicious paid traffic — and why we bias toward explainability over opaque scores.
When a Beautiful Redesign Costs 40% Organic Traffic
A commerce replatform post-mortem: client-side filters, lazy hero assets, and missing redirects — plus the checklist we now require before launch.
Crossing $2.1M ARR Across Five Bootstrapped Products
How the studio portfolio fits together: shared observability, alternating focus quarters, and ruthless churn on experiments that steal support hours.