Manifesto · 2026

Boring AI beats clever demos. Every time.

Eight statements we'll defend.

Tenet 01

Pilots beat platforms.

Fixed scope, fixed fee, day-30 review. Subscriptions hide bad fits.

Tenet 02

Boring beats clever.

Predictability is the feature. We optimize for accuracy and audit, not magic.

Tenet 03

Numbers, not slides.

Every claim has a measurement. Slide decks lie. Production traces don't.

Tenet 04

Founder on the call.

Not a junior. Not a sales engineer. The person who built the eval framework is the person you talk to.

Tenet 05

Own the agent.

Code, prompts, training data, eval set — all yours. Deploy on your infra.

Tenet 06

The number comes first.

One KPI with a target, fixed before kickoff, measured on day 30. Miss it, and the pilot fee comes back. The point is the number, not the refund.

Tenet 07

An agent without an operator dies.

A supervisor reads every reply before it ships. Dialogs get scored, prompts get fixed, the eval set catches regressions. Switch-on-and-forget is how bots die.

Tenet 08

Build for the operator.

The user is the sales rep, not the engineer. Dashboards must be readable in 10 seconds.

Signature

If we ever break one of these, call us out.

Andrew Maryasov · Founder · Lviv · 2026

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