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Cybersecurity · 28 August 2026 · 7 min read
In multi-tenant software, the most dangerous bug is one tenant seeing another's data. We made that entire class of bug fail closed by moving tenant isolation into the database with Row-Level Security, as a backstop to, not a replacement for, application-level scoping.
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Governance · 27 August 2026 · 5 min read
A practical view of turning accountability and evidence into an operating advantage instead of a parallel reporting exercise.
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Technology · 21 August 2026 · 6 min read
An inbox is ambiguous by nature; a pipeline needs certainty. We resolve every inbound email to a specific job, or to a review queue, with a deterministic ladder of rules and a safety net that guarantees nothing is ever silently dropped.
Read the articleTechnology · 19 August 2026 · 6 min read
A receipt, a report card, a transfer certificate; to a family, these documents are the school. We built one engine to generate them all: branded per school, verifiable by anyone, and delivered only to the right hands.
Read the articleCybersecurity · 15 August 2026 · 7 min read
Role-based access is easy to demo and hard to live with. The real question is not what a user can do, but which people and records they can do it to. Here is how we made access control safe by default and configurable by the school.
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Enterprise systems · 14 August 2026 · 6 min read
Technology choices, process design, adoption and governance have to move as one programme — otherwise a technically successful ERP still disappoints.
Read the articleTechnology · 12 August 2026 · 6 min read
Most applicant tracking systems treat email as an integration. We treated it as the foundation, connecting directly to each customer's own mailbox over IMAP and SMTP rather than routing their hiring mail through an email service provider.
Read the articleGovernance · 12 August 2026 · 6 min read
Maker-checker is everywhere in a school: a large fee waiver, a result before it reaches parents, a student leaving mid-day. We refused to build it four times. Here is the single engine that governs them all, and why the audit trail comes for free.
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