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      <title>The 1080p pipeline that kept melting our queue.</title>
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      <title>Why &quot;we build anything&quot; beats a feature list.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
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      <description>Listing 26 things you do is a tell. The agencies that win the interesting work are the ones who say &quot;show us what you&#x27;ve got&quot; and mean it.</description>
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      <title>Three teams, one pipeline. Why every project gets built three times.</title>
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      <description>How a single project moves through Bots, Bytes, and Bits — and why it ends up better when all three have touched it before it ships.</description>
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      <title>What Bots actually asks on a discovery call.</title>
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      <title>n8n, but only when it earns its place.</title>
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      <title>One typeface, six pages, no slop.</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
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      <description>Picking a typeface for the new site. Why we avoided the usual suspects, and what we landed on instead.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +1000</pubDate>
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      <description>Why we always run a 30-minute call before quoting. Even on tiny projects. Especially on tiny projects.</description>
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