Writing from the workshop.
Occasional notes from one founder building four utilities. Maybe one a month. No newsletter to subscribe to.
Why Aurora has four utilities and not one platform
A common piece of investor feedback is "you should consolidate these into one product with a unified UX." We have decided to do the opposite. Here is why, and what we are trading off.
Document Distill cited 47 of 50 contract paragraphs correctly. Here is the methodology.
We hand-graded the citation accuracy of our contract summarizer against 50 vendor agreements. Here is how the test was constructed and what the three failures looked like.
"Quiet AI" — what we mean by it
Aurora's tagline is "quiet AI for the work nobody enjoys doing." A few customers have asked what "quiet" means in practice. Three concrete commitments — and one that took us months to figure out.
Building a one-person SaaS in Irving, Texas
I moved from Austin to Irving to build Aurora. Here is what changed in my work pattern, what was easier, what was harder, and why I am staying.
Anthropic Claude on Bedrock: real-world numbers from the first 90 days
Our breakdown of where Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5 and Opus 4.6 each sit in Aurora's stack — actual latency numbers, cost per output token at our usage profile, and the cases where one model beat the others by a lot.
The first Aurora design partner
How Daniel from Reyes Tile Works became Aurora's first design partner — what we got right, what we got wrong, and the email he sent in week 3 that changed the product roadmap.