Product Manager
Sam is the product manager for Cyril. He writes about the architecture underneath AI-native business software, and about what building one actually involves.
31 August 2026 · 8 min read
The AI demo is not the risk. The permission model underneath it is, and it is the thing that decides whether the feature can ever leave the pilot group. Eight questions, product-neutral, with the answer you want to hear for each.
28 August 2026 · 9 min read
Cyril is a full business platform built by AI, directed by one person. The interesting part is not the speed — it is that the practices which make AI a reliable developer turn out to be the same practices that make software agent-ready.
25 August 2026 · 9 min read
Licences are the smallest line. Here is an open, assumption-by-assumption model of what it costs to run sales, support, docs, projects and finance in five separate systems — including the line that has only existed since AI arrived.
18 August 2026 · 8 min read
Every vendor now says their platform is AI-native. Seven questions separate the ones where that is an architectural fact from the ones where it is a feature line — each with a concrete answer you can ask for in a single demo.
2 June 2026 · 6 min read
Generative AI answers questions; agentic AI takes actions — and actions are where trust is lost. What makes them safe in Cyril isn't a guardrail prompt: it's one permission model, one audit log, one rollback path.
20 May 2026 · 5 min read
Cyril gives every entity an ai_context serializer — a deterministic, schema-aware view built for the model, not the database. It's the unglamorous core of what makes AI grounding actually work.
8 May 2026 · 6 min read
Bolted-on AI looks impressive in demos and falls apart in workflows. The reason is structural. Here's the engineering decision that separates AI-native from AI-added-on.
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