Studio
How the company works: decisions, process, money, people and the odd mistake.
2026
Six months in, by the numbers
By the numbersMediant Partners Ltd was incorporated on 11 May 2026. Six months on: 195 repos, 5,795 animal logs in ZooLog, 4,710 commits in the five repos we work in most, and a November repo count that needs an asterisk.
The checklist before a client site goes live
Deep diveEvery line on our launch checklist traces to an incident, a decision or a question nobody could answer by looking. Here is where each one came from, what we automated so the list stays short, and what no checklist can prove.
The ten pound rule
Decision recordIn October our GitHub Actions use ran to nearly five times the minutes our plan includes, and a spending cap we kept raising turned two dozen alerts red. On 5 November we set one rule for every metered vendor: free tier or £10 a month.
We moved every ticket into a Markdown file
Decision recordOn 12 October we retired our ticket tracker and put every open task in a Markdown file in each business's own git repo. It worked for just over two weeks. Then many agents writing at once pulled six of those repos apart.
20.5 hours of agent time spent watching CI
By the numbersWe read two weeks of our AI coding-agent sessions by hand: 129 sessions, 496 prompts. The agents were rarely slow at the work. They were slow at finishing it: they kept stopping to ask, and 20.5 hours went on watching CI.