#process
How we plan, track and ship work.
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 entitlement arrived. The feature still is not live.
Field notesOn 6 November Apple granted the Tap to Pay entitlement we had asked for since September. Workers still cannot use it, because the build sitting in Apple's separate App Store review would lose its place in the queue if we swapped it now.
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.
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.
24 files we are not allowed to edit
Deep diveEd proved his scheduling engine against ten thousand simulated worlds. TyreStack imports it unchanged, locks 24 files to his exact bytes with a hash, and the gate fails the moment one of them differs.
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.