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How a Tiny Team Ships Like a Big One
Dollar budgets, scope guards, and an agent's right to say no
Trust in autonomous agents came to us as a stack of constraints - six plain layers, and the two invoices that taught us to build them.
5 min readagentsguardrailsfinopsclaudebedrocktrustHow a Tiny Team Ships Like a Big One · The Partner Track
Co-sell is a data problem before it's a sales problem
A customer's co-sell program stalled for a year. The fix wasn't sales motivation - it was that nobody could answer 'which of our deals have AWS in them?' from the CRM.
4 min readawspartnerco-selldataHow a Tiny Team Ships Like a Big One · The Product Track
An agent that knows when to stop
Fixed iteration counts are the wrong loop condition for research agents. Ours stop when their evidence is sufficient - and their runtime dropped by half.
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100% of our code is written by AI. Here's the system that makes that boring.
From 12% to 100% AI-generated code in six months - and the four-layer operating model of specs, agents, AI review, and human gates that makes it safe.
5 min readai-engineeringagentsclaudeprocessspec-driven-developmentHow a Tiny Team Ships Like a Big One · The Partner Track
One click from opportunity to ACE
Co-sell mostly dies at the swivel chair: a rep re-typing a CRM opportunity into Partner Central. We wired ACE submission into the deal view, with a human deciding what AWS gets to see.
5 min readawspartneraceco-sellproductHow a Tiny Team Ships Like a Big One · The Product Track
Reading an industry's public exhaust
The buying signals enterprises pay for are lying in public - filings, earnings calls, job postings, regulatory actions - in volumes no human team can read. So we stopped using humans.
5 min readai-engineeringsignalsdataproductHow a Tiny Team Ships Like a Big One
The agent that files bugs before they happen
Our daily QA agent reads code instead of logs - and fixed a P1 crash that had zero production occurrences. On prevention, precision, and why a silent bot is a feature.
6 min readagentsqapreventionclaudecode-reviewHow a Tiny Team Ships Like a Big One · The Partner Track
Zero to co-selling with AWS, in the right order
New AWS partners reach for the Marketplace listing and the badge first. Watching alliance teams that work, the right first move is less glamorous: your own deal data.
7 min readawspartnerco-sellalliancesHow a Tiny Team Ships Like a Big One · The Product Track
The 16x problem: your CRM doesn't know who's in the deal
Native automation matched 0.74% of a customer's 425,000 emails to opportunities. On entity resolution - the unglamorous problem underneath every deal-intelligence promise.
5 min readai-engineeringentity-resolutioncrmproductHow a Tiny Team Ships Like a Big One
Anatomy of our SRE fleet: from CloudWatch error to merged fix in 12 minutes
How a fleet of narrow, budgeted Claude agents on AWS turns production exceptions into reviewed, tested pull requests - and why a human still merges every one.
8 min readagentssreawsclaudebedrockHow a Tiny Team Ships Like a Big One
Welcome to Aithon Engineering
Who we are, what we build, and why a team of six builders decided to write an engineering blog.
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