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Business & RegulationWhen Not to Hire Wavect
An honest list of the six cases where Wavect is the wrong call, who to use instead, and the narrow set of work we actually do best.
Business & RegulationCan a Software Studio Claim Austria's Forschungsprämie?
Austria's Forschungsprämie pays back 14% of qualifying R&D costs in cash, even at a loss. Which dev costs count, what gets rejected by the FFG, and how it compares to Germany's Forschungszulage.
AI & AgentsWhen Is an LLM Eval Worth Building? Cost, ROI, and Trusting the Judge
An LLM eval is worth building when stakes, volume, and prompt-change frequency exceed the cost of the harness. The model bill is a few dollars per run; the real cost is a dataset and a judge you can trust.
Web3 & PrivacyWhy Cross-Chain Bridges Keep Getting Drained
Ronin, Wormhole, and Nomad lost over $1.1B between them. The root cause is the trust model, not the code. Plus whether you even need a bridge.
Business & RegulationHow Austrian Startup Funding Actually Stacks
aws Preseed, FFG Basisprogramm, and the 14% Forschungsprämie stack legally, but the double-funding rule nets out overlapping euros. Caps, a worked example, and the order to apply.
Delivery & QAReact Native vs Flutter for a DACH Founder Who Has to Hire Locally
The variable every comparison skips is who you can actually hire in Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich, or Zurich. Why React Native usually wins the DACH hiring math.
Delivery & QALoRaWAN vs NB-IoT vs Sigfox: How to Budget an IoT Sensor Pilot
One decision drives 80% of your pilot cost, and it is not the radio. Private network you own versus carrier subscription you rent, with a worked TCO crossover.
Leadership & TeamsFocus Is the New Bottleneck
LLMs moved the bottleneck from typing to focus. The orchestration ceiling, seven failure modes past N agents, and how we ration agent count.
Web3 & PrivacySmart Contract Security Checklist (30 Items)
The 30-item internal checklist we run on Solidity code before sending it to an external auditor. Compiler, access control, reentrancy, gas surfaces.
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