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Notes on building software you own.

Essays and practical guides on agents, evaluation, ownership and co-building, written by the people you build with.

Records sit in the data platform at the bottom; an agentic workflow layer with permissions, approvals and audit runs above it and spans several systems.

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Architecture

Your ERP becomes a data platform: where does the workflow live?

As agents take over the process, systems of record turn into data platforms. Where the agentic workflow layer lives — and who owns it — becomes the real architecture decision.

Frideric Pétré · October 6, 2026 · 6 min read

A line shaft driving machines by belts gives way to a compact electric motor; the same line then runs through an agent into application cards, with a person setting the brief.

Agents

If AI is the new electricity, agents are its electric motors

AI agents turn model capability into completed work, as electric motors did for electricity. What Viktor, Grok Bot and Dots show, and why the next step is to redesign the business.

Frideric Pétré · October 1, 2026 · 7 min read

Ownership

Own your AI software: what to own when a partner builds it

AI software ownership in practice: what you should own when a partner builds your agentic software, what you license, and how to write it into the build.

Frideric Pétré · September 22, 2026 · 8 min read

A workflow line with an approval step in the middle; corrections from that step drop into a stack of checked cases, the regression set, which loops back to the start of the workflow.

Evaluation

Evals for agentic workflows: build them into software you own

Evals for agentic workflows belong inside the product: traces, human approval steps and a regression set you own decide how much autonomy each step earns.

Frideric Pétré · September 8, 2026 · 8 min read

Three rising steps with a capped block on the first step and a decision point with three outcomes at the top: a proof in three phases with a capped contribution at risk.

Private equity

Skin in the game: how an AI build partner earns the next commitment

What a skin in the game AI partner commits: a capped contribution at risk, a proof in three phases and a follow-on model decided on the evidence.

Frideric Pétré · August 11, 2026 · 8 min read

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