Insights & ideas from the engineering floor
Practical insights on AI automation, custom software, and internal tools from the team at Paramint
AI Engineering
6 min readHow to Choose an AI Automation Agency
A practical checklist for choosing an AI automation agency that can ship production systems, handle messy data, and own the hard parts after launch.
AI Engineering
9 min readReplacing an Admin Dashboard With a ChatGPT App
How we replaced a traditional admin dashboard with a ChatGPT App using MCP tools, UI widgets, and a permissions layer built for real operations.
Product
6 min readBuilding ReviewMyHinge: Lessons From a Two-Sided Marketplace
What building a dating profile review marketplace taught us about cold starts, trust design, pricing, repeat usage, and two-sided product operations.
AI Engineering
6 min readWhy AI Projects Fail Before Production
Why AI projects stall between demo and deployment, and what production-ready teams do differently around data, evaluation, integrations, and failure handling.
Product
7 min readAI RFP Response Automation: Building Vercor
Why proposal teams still lose days to RFP assembly work, and how we built an AI pipeline for extraction, drafting, staffing, formatting, and compliance review.
Product
6 min readWhy CRMs Fail Relationship-Driven Businesses
Why relationship-driven teams outgrow traditional CRMs, and how we designed Relate to track context, prioritize attention, and draft the next move.
Internal Tools
6 min readRetool vs Custom Code for Internal Tools
A practical framework for deciding when Retool is enough, when custom code is worth it, and when the right answer is a mix of both.
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