FROM THE TRENCHES Issue №310

Practical decisions for AI and software

Technical guides to choose models, verify software and plan delivery.

Latest articles

New comparisons, practical guides and engineering lessons.

A 30/60/90-day production rollout plan for an AI agent at an Austrian SME AI & Agents

AI Agent Pilot in 30/60/90 Days

A serious production rollout plan for Austrian SMEs: scope and de-risk, build and shadow, then limited production and handover. The hard parts are permissions, approvals, evals, and a clean handover, not the model.

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

A risk-based verification guide for AI-assisted code, covering trust boundaries, failure paths, dependencies, concurrency, operational evidence, and the limits of any review.

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 to Check Before Launch

A risk-based review of AI-assisted software, the evidence to examine before launch, and how to prioritize remediation.

RAG production-readiness checklist for EU companies AI & Agents

RAG Production-Readiness Checklist for EU Companies

A RAG prototype is only a starting point. A risk-based review of retrieval, grounding, evaluation, cost, privacy, transparency, prompt injection, and permission-aware retrieval.

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 nine Austrian MVP providers by fit, public pricing, stated timeline, presence and proof, with Wavect’s commercial interest disclosed and missing facts left unguessed.

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