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Category analyses, stack teardowns, market shifts, and framework methodology — all through the B4 lens, all from the operator's seat.
Everyone Argues Build vs. Buy. For Most Companies the Answer Is Neither.
The build-vs-buy debate is a false binary. A third of all scored software categories land in BRIDGE — buy the platform, own the intelligence layer. Here's the quadrant nobody named, and how to act on it.
READ THE ESSAY ↗Moves at the Frontier of AI and Software Development
The week's AI news read through one question: do you build it, or buy it? Agents crossed into production, every cloud raced to rent you a runtime, and the money quietly went to keeping agents from breaking things.
How I Built a 1,600-Category Software Decision Engine
The B4 Index scores more than 1,600 software categories across 169 domains. Here's the framework, the build process, and what the data tells you about where AI is reshaping software decisions.
What If You Built Your Own Operating System for Life?
The tools to build custom software for your specific workflows are now cheap enough and fast enough that the question applies to your personal life too.
Why I'm Writing About Build or Buy
The software stack is bloated. AI changed the math. Here's why I built a framework for the decisions that matter.