Field reports we publish
Daniel writes about what we built, after we built it. The canonical version of every piece lives on Medium. This page is a reading list and a pointer, not a content factory.
Recurring themes
The work clusters around four ideas. Each title below is a piece in circulation, findable on the Medium feed.
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The Specification Economy
Coordination collapsed before execution did. Specification is now the high-leverage work of an AI-first organization, and that fact reshapes roles, hiring, and where value gets captured. Field report on the shape of the new bottleneck.
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The AI-First Design Kit: A Practitioner's Blueprint
Genome, governance, gates, and roles. The minimum viable scaffolding for an organization that wants agents to do the execution work without the work going off the rails. Includes the worked example of dog-fooding the kit on Synapti itself. Companion to the ai-first-org-kit plugin.
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Age of the 1 Pizza Team
Why teams of five with the right architecture now ship what used to take fifty. The constraint that fell was not human capability, it was coordination overhead. Reasons it stays small even when the work scales, and what that does to org design.
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Liability as Moat
Andrew Chen's agent-first distribution thesis says the new winners are companies that ship to agents, not to users. Julien Bek's thesis says software is increasingly masquerading as services. Read together, the defensible part is the part that absorbs risk. The unifying synthesis and the implication for how Synapti picks engagements.
Long-form open methodology
The Medium pieces are essays. The deeper material lives in the playbooks: structured methodology for building AI systems that survive production, licensed CC BY-SA so anyone can adapt or extend it. Architecture patterns, evaluation frameworks, production readiness.
Where to follow
New pieces go to Medium first. There is no newsletter, there is no Substack. The synaptiai GitHub org is where the code lands, often before the writeup. If you want the field reports as they happen, follow Daniel on Medium or watch the synaptiai repos.