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Showing posts 10–18 of 18. Honest writing on Business Central, AI engineering with Claude, ERP implementation and SaaS product thinking.
Building an AI Assistant for Business Central: 61 tools, hardcoded write whitelists, and Preview-and-Confirm
The engineering choices behind a Claude-powered conversational interface that lives inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central — and why the simplest decision was the most important.
Cost engineering 60 Claude agents: prompt caching, Batch API and the Haiku/Sonnet/Opus mix
How Marketing OS runs 60+ production agents on Claude at a cost structure that competes with traditional agencies — and the four levers that get it there.
What Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central actually is, and where it fits in the Indian SMB stack
An honest primer on Business Central for Indian small and mid-sized businesses considering an ERP upgrade — what it is, what it isn't, and the questions to ask before committing.
Schema first, UI third: why we refuse to start screens before the data model is signed off
Why we order ERP projects schema → API → UI, and what happens when teams skip the first step. A working note from a decade of implementations.
Multi-tenancy from line one: Postgres Row-Level Security in practice
Every SourceForge product that touches more than one customer is multi-tenant from the first commit. The mechanism is Postgres Row-Level Security, two database roles, and a discipline.
From Tally to Business Central: a migration playbook that respects your CA
The realistic path from Tally Prime to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for an Indian SMB. Six phases, twelve weeks, and a CA who isn't furious with you.
On-prem-ready by default: shipping the same product to AWS, a VPS, and a school server room
Every SourceForge product is deployable to any Docker host without a code change. The principle, the practice, and the small details that make it actually work.
The six-phase ERP rollout playbook (Discovery → Hypercare)
The same six-phase delivery sequence we run on every ERP project, from a single-showroom Gold ERP rollout to a 200-outlet Restaurant POS deployment. Tuned to scope, never reinvented.
Running our own marketing on Marketing OS: nine product brands, one operator
We use our own Marketing OS to run growth across nine SourceForge product brands. Here's the operator's-eye view — what works, what doesn't, and what changed about how we hire.