What we learn on projects: architecture, tools, traps, and what we solved.
Itemised audit budgets for a Hungarian SME going through NIS2, ISO 27001, or SOC 2 in 2026 - including what's usually missed in the quote.
What you actually get for €2k vs €8k vs €20k in Budapest in 2026 - published rates, no salesman talk.
What does an AI engagement actually cost in Budapest right now, and how do you tell a serious studio from a prompt-pretender?
Direct-booking percentage is the only metric that compounds. Here's the tech and the conversion playbook that actually moves it.
GDPR for student data isn't optional and isn't impossible. The patterns that work for K-12 + higher-ed in EU markets, in 2026.
Building a property platform in the EU? Here's the stack we'd actually ship today · MLS, AVM, broker CRM, energy certificates, all locale-aware.
Legal-tech vendors all say 'privilege-aware'. Here's the 12-point due-diligence checklist we run before our law-firm clients sign.
Most manufacturing AI fails at the demo-to-production gap. Here's the short list of what actually pays back · and what to skip.
Most security audit quotes are unread cookie-cutter PDFs. Here's the pricing reality, what each tier ships, and the four things separating engineering from theatre.
Most "audit" quotes range from €1k to €120k for the same 600-line Solidity file. Here's what actually justifies each tier - and which numbers are theatre.
NIS2 is in force. EU SaaS teams that wait for the first incident to do the paperwork have already lost the audit. Here's the 90-day plan we run on every cybersecurity engagement.
Most AI agency pitches sound the same. Nine questions surface the difference between a production engineering team and a deck-driven sales motion · ask all nine before signing.
European AI engineering rates in 2026 don't fit on one page · here's the real breakdown by tier, with what's included, what's a red flag, and where the EU compliance overhead actually shows up.
Three failure modes, one table. 30 minutes of diagnosis, then you know what to fix. Stop guessing.
Most A/B tests are theatre. Here is what actually moves a startup's metrics, and why team-shape is the experiment your competitors are afraid to run.
Frameworks are great until they get in the way. Here is a 200-line TS eval harness that runs in CI, blocks regressions and prints a diff.
Six prompt-cache patterns. Real before/after numbers. Most agents leave 60-80% on the table. Fix it this week.
v2 of the LLM Top 10 reorganised around how teams actually get hit. Here is what moved, what is new, and the default controls we ship.
Stripe Tax handles the calculation. The 'Hungarian VAT compliant invoice' part is on you. Here is the full chain we ship.
BRIN is rumoured. Then someone tries it on a random column and concludes it is slow. We benchmarked the right shape · here is what actually wins.
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