AI readiness: twelve questions, no consultant
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Mission BriefsLive archive · by the team at Pirxey
Stay sharp in the AI Era. One interactive brief at a time
Each brief takes one concept from shipping real software and makes it hands-on: a working widget to test the idea, the Skills, Gems and custom GPTs we built around it, and the sources behind it.
Five months in: the founder is third
28 people have changed our company second brain since May, and ten of them do not write code. See who wrote what, two counts five weeks apart, and what is still weak.
Pirxey World: the questions we stopped asking
Explore the questions behind our second brain for a 130-person company, including the mistakes and access problems we still face.
Pirxey World: our second brain at the leadership table
Explore five leadership questions through evidence and gaps. Try a fictional decision scene with records from a second brain.
AI Software Factory: a working product in six weeks
Walk the delivery loop behind a consumer product built in 44 days. See where AI worked and people decided.
Pirxey World: our second brain, with the access we already had
Trace who can see what in Pirxey World. Personal logins and separate GitHub repositories set the boundaries.
Pirxey World: how our second brain finds what matters
Follow a fictional question from rules and indexes to a tool. See what enters context and why old sources need checking.
Pirxey World: our second brain, 130 people wide
Follow nine management questions through Pirxey World. See how an assistant searches company knowledge using each person’s own access.
The AI Pulse: 77 people, no grading, no filter
Every month, we survey AI use at Pirxey. Explore rising adoption and the obstacles beyond the models.
Do you even use AI? The receipts.
See how we record AI use in commits and count time saved and wasted. Find who owns each merge.
Architecture is what the agent sees
Explore how module boundaries change what an agent reads and what reviewers must check, with a Java/Spring and frontend example.
Adding AI to your product: will it hold?
Pick an AI feature, set the traffic and toggle safeguards. See what survives contact with users.
How much does an intelligent decision weigh?
Set the decision-maker’s skills and feedback speed. Watch a month of AI-assisted decisions and their accumulated repair effort.
How to approach AI transformation
Score your company and get a ninety-day plan. Test whether a process should be automated at all.
AI workflow automation playbook
Build one workflow with rules, an LLM or an agent. Compare modeled costs and find gaps before a pilot.
Shipping new things while drowning in tickets
Adjust your team’s support and testing load. Compare six months with a dedicated maintenance stream.
Your developers got faster. Did your product?
AI sped up coding. Change the traffic around it to find the queue holding up delivery.
AI software factory: where the humans go
Assemble a software factory from blocks. Remove the human checkpoints and see what breaks.
PirxeyOS: 20 days to build, 30 weeks to keep alive
Scrub through 32 weeks of PirxeyOS commits. See what the first version cost, then what keeping it working took.
The new Pareto: 95/5
Drag the sonar below the demo and price the hidden work. A field model calibrated on 587 commits.
Why your emails go to spam
Test your domain’s email authentication. See what’s broken and what to paste into DNS, free in your browser.
Why 10× isn't a constant
Drag the slider to see why AI gains shrink as a codebase grows. A field model from 53 production projects.
Why we write these. And why they look like this
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Built, not described
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Linked, not locked
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Sourced, not invented
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