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LATEST · LOG-007 | Stardate 2026.05.22 | 6 min read

We evaluate every vendor in 4 prompts

Side-by-side responses from Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro on the four prompts we run before recommending any vendor.

Buyer literacy Live prompt compare
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LOG-010 | Stardate 2026.05.21 | 4 min read

Pre-launch security for solo app devs

The security checklist every solo dev should run before launch - secrets, auth, rate limits, and the holes attackers probe first.

Engineering Security checklist
LOG-006 | Stardate 2026.05.18 | 5 min read

Should you automate this? Be honest.

Five questions, one verdict. An interactive decision tree to pressure-test whether a workflow should be automated, bought, ruled, or left alone.

Buyer literacy Decision tree
LOG-008 | Stardate 2026.05.15 | 6 min read

What a 6-month AI roadmap looks like

The real shape of an Orbit-built roadmap. Six stages, what gets built when, and where the dollar savings actually compound.

Strategy Architecture diagram
LOG-005 | Stardate 2026.05.13 | 5 min read

The handoff at 60 reps, automated

At ~60 reps the spreadsheet handoff between marketing and sales stops working. A side-by-side of what we replaced and what we kept human.

Operations Workflow diagram
LOG-009 | Stardate 2026.05.11 | 3 min read

Pulse: where are you on AI adoption?

Four stages we keep seeing across founder calls. Cast a quick vote and read the trap that sits inside each one.

Community Inline poll
LOG-003 | Stardate 2026.05.08 | 5 min read

Caching is where the money is

Anthropic prompt caching cuts your repeat-input bill by ~90% when traffic clusters into the cache window. A walk-through with the embedded math.

Cost engineering Token cost mini
LOG-002 | Stardate 2026.05.06 | 5 min read

The five terms every buyer mishears about LLMs

Token, context window, fine-tune, agent, RAG. Four mean something different to your engineer than to your vendor. Hover the underlined terms inline.

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LOG-001 | Stardate 2026.05.06 | 4 min read

Cold email that reads like a person, not a template

We rewrite a real cold email line by line and show why each change moves the meter. Toggle before/after to see a 3x reply lift with no extra personalization.

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