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    <p class="sub">A short note on what we built between June and August. A rebuild that paid for itself, a media product shipping every week, and a capability we can drop into your product.</p>

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  <p class="lead">We are an AI product studio. We design, build, and ship AI products and the engineering underneath them, in production, fast. Here is the last three months in one page.</p>

  <p class="lead">If you are building an AI product, three things from our last quarter are worth your time: how one rebuild killed a runaway cloud bill, how we ship generative video every week without quality falling apart, and a few notes you can use whether or not we ever work together.</p>

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        <li><b>Field notes</b> published openly, from prompt caching to migrating without regret.</li>

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    <p style="margin-top:18px;">What that buys you: a team that ships to production every week, not every quarter. The rest of this page is the parts worth stealing.</p>

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    <p>The egress win came from moving an immutable, write-once media set onto zero-egress storage. On the old stack that same traffic was billed at cloud egress rates, a cost that doubles as vendor lock-in. Both mobile apps verified green before launch, because we tested against the actual client decoders instead of trusting a green status code.</p>

    <p style="margin-top:18px;"><strong>If this is you</strong> — an AI product that shipped, grew, and now costs too much and breaks too often — the fix is rarely a bigger team. It is a disciplined rebuild that cuts the bill and the bugs together. That is the work we do.</p>

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    <p class="kicker">From our notebook</p>

    <h2 class="headline">What we wrote down.</h2>

    <p>We publish the useful parts of how we work. A few pieces from this quarter, open to read:</p>

    <p>We publish the useful parts of how we work, free to read and useful whether or not you ever hire us. A few from this quarter:</p>

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      <li><a href="https://thing.unravel.tech/unravel/prompt-caching-and-how-to-think-about-it">Prompt caching, and how to think about it</a><span>Where caching actually saves money and latency with large language models, and where it quietly does not.</span></li>

      <li><a href="https://thing.unravel.tech/unravel/eval-metrics">The metrics we judge AI output by</a><span>How we measure whether a model's output is good, and keep our evals honest as the product changes.</span></li>

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    <h2>Have something you want built?</h2>

    <p>If you are shipping an AI product, weighing a rebuild, or want live collaboration in your app, let's talk. A short call, no pitch deck required.</p>

    <h2>Weighing a rebuild or a cost cut?</h2>

    <p>Thirty minutes. We will tell you straight whether it is worth doing, what it would take, and how we would do it. No pitch deck required.</p>

    <a class="btn" href="https://unravel.tech/call">Book a 30-minute call →</a>

    <span class="alt">Or just reply to this email. It reaches us directly. <a href="mailto:kapil@unravel.tech">kapil@unravel.tech</a></span>

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