Notes on what software teams actually spend, and why.
Most founders cannot answer this, and find out at the worst possible moment.
A former developer, an old agency, a founder who left. The recovery path depends on which.
Access outlives employment by default. That is the problem.
Providers ship new services faster than anyone can assess them. Most of the decision is the same five questions.
Per-request pricing is an excellent deal until it is not, and the crossover is arithmetic.
The warning signs, and an intervention that is not a six-month rewrite.
A short list, in order, with the expensive-to-reverse decisions marked.
None of these are clever. All of them keep finding money.
The question is not which instrument is better. It is how confident you are about the next twelve months.
A working agenda, not a maturity model.