FROM THE TRENCHES Issue №165

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A fractional CTO 30/60/90-day execution plan for an Austrian startup Leadership & Teams

Fractional CTO 30/60/90-Day Plan

You hired a fractional CTO. What should the first 90 days produce? Assess, plan, execute, and the artifacts and running system that survive their departure. Plus when to replace them full-time.

AI MVP scope template with acceptance criteria, eval set, and launch gate Product & MVP

AI MVP Scope Template

Scoping an AI MVP differs from normal software: you replace it works with an eval set, a metric and threshold, a launch gate, and failure handling. A copy-ready SoW template included.

Permissions-first RAG architecture over SharePoint, Confluence and Google Drive AI & Agents

Permissions-First RAG over SharePoint, Confluence, Drive

The hard problem in enterprise RAG is permissions: never surface a document to a user who cannot see it. Enforce at the retrieval layer, not the prompt, with per-chunk ACLs and identity-aware retrieval.

QA for AI-generated code, what breaks before launch Delivery & QA

QA for AI-Generated Code

What breaks in code from Lovable, Cursor, Claude Code, and Replit before launch, and the production-readiness checklist we run to catch it.

From Lovable and Cursor prototype to production Delivery & QA

From Lovable and Cursor Prototype to Production: The Migration Checklist

Getting to a demo is fast. Getting to production is a separate project. The checklist we run to harden an AI-IDE prototype, auth, data, secrets, hosting, and the keep-vs-rebuild call.

Vibe-coded software audit, what breaks before launch Delivery & QA

Vibe-Coded Software Audit: What Breaks Before Launch

You shipped software you never read. Here is the structured read we run on AI-generated code, the seven things we check first, and what blocks launch versus what can wait.

RAG production-readiness checklist for EU companies AI & Agents

RAG Production-Readiness Checklist for EU Companies

A RAG demo is easy. A trustworthy, GDPR- and AI-Act-defensible, affordable RAG assistant is not. The retrieval, grounding, cost, compliance, and security checks we run before one ships.

MVP development agencies in Austria compared by fit, price, timeline and proof Business & Regulation

MVP Development for Startups in Austria: Agencies, Cost and Selection 2026

A sourced comparison of eight Austrian MVP providers by fit, public pricing, stated timeline, presence and proof, with Wavect's commercial interest disclosed and missing facts left unguessed.

How much an AI MVP costs in Austria in 2026 Product & MVP

How Much Does an AI MVP Cost in Austria in 2026?

Honest EUR bands by tier, what drives the number up or down, the build/buy/fine-tune call, the ongoing costs people forget, and how the Austrian funding stack changes the real price.

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