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Tools, tips, and workflows — because reliable techniques beat flashy hype.
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Copy This Template and Ship Faster
Get started in 5 steps—copy the template, generate a TRD, fill the canvas, create your plan, start building. Everything you need to turn requirements into shipped code without planning chaos.
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Why We Document Decisions (And How ADRs Save Time)
Architecture Decision Records capture the "why" behind technical choices—preventing teams from re-debating the same decisions six months later. Learn how to write ADRs that save time without slowing you down.
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From Backlog to Done: Tracking Real Progress
Learn how to translate plans into actionable work with granular backlog items, acceptance criteria, and status tracking that keeps you honest about what's actually getting shipped.
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Canvas Thinking: Align Before You Build
Six lightweight files answer "Who? What? Why? What questions?"—preventing teams from building different visions of the same product. Learn how context alignment matters more than code quality.
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From ChatGPT to Code: The TRD-First Workflow
Learn how to generate a Technical Requirements Document in 20 minutes using ChatGPT, and how it becomes the foundation for everything you build—preventing scope creep and aligning teams from day one.
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Stop Planning in Slack – Here's What We Built Instead
Lost context, scope creep, and misaligned teams happen when planning lives in chat. We built a TRD-driven framework that turns requirements into executable plans with built-in documentation.
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OpalMind: Our Matomo ↔ Opal Bridge Is Now Open Source
OpalMind carries the MatoKit vision forward—now renamed, open sourced, and ready for teams who want safe Matomo access inside Optimizely Opal.
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Matomo LLM Tooling
Opening Matomo reporting and tracking APIs to Optimizely Opal agents with a typed SDK and Fastify tool endpoints.
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Top 10 AE and GEO Tools
A concise list of popular AE (Answer Engines) and GEO tools and engines, with links.
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AEO vs GEO: What’s the Difference?
Answer Engine Optimization and Generative Engine Optimization—where they overlap and how to win at both.
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GEO: Generative Engine Optimization
How to get cited by AI assistants and answer engines—and why great GEO looks like great SEO.
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shop404
Public demo shop to validate analytics and experimentation before production
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MockShop
A mock ecommerce + donation site for analytics and experimentation
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Trafficinator
Pragmatic analytics traffic generator
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