The Factory Floor
What we're building, testing and learning.
Notes from active projects across web, AI, search, product and immersive work.
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Google Maps SEO: How to Rank in the Local Map Pack (2026)
The local map pack absorbs most local-search clicks. Here is the full playbook for ranking in it: profile, reviews, citations, and on-site signals, most of it free.
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Portland Shopify Agency: When Shopify Is the Right Platform (and When It Isn’t)
Should your store be on Shopify? Usually, but not always. What Shopify development involves, what it costs, and how we decide between Shopify, WooCommerce, and custom.
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Claude Watermark: What Anthropic’s Invisible Marks Mean
You copy a paragraph out of Claude, paste it into a client document, make a few edits, and send it off. Nothing looks different.…
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Is Kimi AI Safe for Developers? The Legal Gray Areas in 2026
Is Kimi AI safe to build on? That question has moved from a curiosity to a real procurement problem. Moonshot AI ships genuinely competitive…
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Claude Opus 5 Is Out: What Half-Price Frontier AI Means for Your Business
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 on July 24, and the headline isn’t the intelligence. It’s the price. Opus 5 lands at roughly the capability…
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What Five Months of AI Code Review Actually Found
Since February 27, 2026, every pull request in our active repositories has been reviewed by CodeRaven, the AI code-review platform we built and operate.…
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NemoClaw for Business: Is It Ready for Production?
Wondering if NemoClaw is right for your business? We break down what NVIDIA's agent security layer does, whether it's production ready, and when to deploy.
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Why Your AI Automation Keeps Failing (And What LangGraph Does Differently)
Most AI automation projects look good in demos and collapse in production. Here's why your AI automation keeps failing and what the architecture looks like when it finally holds up.
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Generate AI Videos Directly in Claude: How the Runway MCP Changes Creative Production
Runway's official MCP connector lets you generate professional AI videos inside Claude using Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0, and more, no platform-switching required. Here's what it means for your production workflow.
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Google AI Search 2026: What Pichai’s Agent Manager Vision Means for Your Organic Traffic
60% of searches now end without a click. Google's CEO just explained why and what Search becomes next. Here's what it means for your website and SEO strategy.
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AI Glasses SEO: The Spatial Computing Web Strategy Guide for 2026
AI glasses are changing how search works. Learn how to build a spatial computing web strategy that makes your content discoverable through Android XR, Meta Ray-Ban, and the next generation of AI-powered wearables.
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Your Employees Are Training Your AI. Do They Know That?
Most businesses are feeding client data into AI training pipelines without realizing it. Learn how the data pipeline forms, what your vendor's terms actually say, and what a real internal AI data policy looks like in practice.
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