Category · Engineering·03 pieces·All posts

Engineering — Notes from the Fludigo build floor

Engineering deep-dives from the Fludigo team — backend systems, AI infrastructure, and the architectural tradeoffs we make when shipping production software.

A Conesta learning roadmap rendered in Fludigo's editorial style — six minimal course-module cards on white, connected by an emerald-green path with one card highlighted in orange — visualising AI tracing a personalised route through a curriculum.

engineering·ISSUE 003·10 APR 2026

Building Conesta with AI-First Architecture

How we designed Conesta's learning engine from scratch — AI-generated study paths, real-time collaboration, and why we chose to build on Claude API.

Jabez Paul Asir

An editorial still-life on white — a charcoal silhouette of a steak on the lower-left, a small salt cellar above and to its right, with a scatter of vivid orange salt grains drifting from the cellar onto the steak's surface — visualising AI as the seasoning, not the meal.

engineering·ISSUE 002·26 MAR 2026

AI Is the Salt, Not the Steak

88% of organisations use AI. Only 6% extract real value. 60% of AI initiatives will be abandoned by 2026. Here's why most AI products are lying to you.

Ermars Castar

An iconographic multi-tool splayed open on white — a charcoal central body with six arms fanning outward, three crisp and complete, three visibly broken (one stunted, one bent, one drawn only in dashed outline) — and a small orange warning marker beside the most broken arm.

engineering·ISSUE 001·22 MAR 2026

The All-in-One Platform Trap: Lessons from Bitrix, Odoo, and Zoho

You can do everything in Bitrix24 — just not well. Why all-in-one platforms fail, what Odoo took 10 years to learn, and how to build without the trap.

Ermars Castar