Notes from the work
How slow software projects get fast.
What we learn putting working software in front of teams within weeks: the spec, the sprint, the parts we reuse, and the places it still goes wrong. Written by the two partners, from client projects and from the businesses Adam runs.
What's in it
01
The spec, before any code
What we write in the first week of a project, with real examples, and why it is the part that lets everything after it move quickly.
02
Sprints, week by week
What got built in each week of a prototype, what slowed it down, and what we would change next time.
03
AI that writes shippable code
Where AI-written code holds up in production, where it doesn't, and how an engineer reviews every change before it ships.
04
Planned against shipped
The estimate a team had before a project, what actually shipped, and what made the difference.
Who writes it
Adam Viccaro
Partner, product and operations
Adam leads product on CAIO engagements, from the first interview to the prototype a team can use. He was product lead for RVLVR and Affinitiv, rebuilt Sided's core product in two months against a six-to-twelve-month plan as its co-founder, and runs two local businesses on ShedBuilder.ai, the software he built for them.
Brad Risse
Partner, engineering
Fifteen years shipping production software. Builds the agent harness and engineering workflows we deploy inside client companies, and trains engineering teams to ship with AI agents in production.