How to run an AI agent in shadow mode before granting production authority
A six-stage, 16-week-or-shorter playbook for collecting production evidence while humans retain consequential decisions and rollback remains available.
Journal
Essays, Company Rewrites, and Playbooks. Every claim carries its evidence.
What a week of verifying our own verification cost
A founder’s decision framework for separating checks that work from checks that merely pass.
What to require before an AI coding agent can merge code
A minimum merge path for protected branches, bounded agent permissions, fresh checks, and recoverable releases
What Klarna’s AI numbers can and cannot tell you
The public record shows reported scale, service indicators, savings, and staffing—but not AI’s causal effect on any of them.