Build logs
Working notes from inside the studio.
What we tried, what the numbers said, what changed, what broke. Lower polish, higher signal. Posted as we ship.
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A clickable mockup in an afternoon
Beacon ·An afternoon of Phoenix LiveView produced fourteen connected screens. The clickable mockup is the cheapest discovery tool we have for an AI product.
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Week one: V1 of the site, and the parts that are not done
sandcastlelabs.ai ·What shipped in week one of sandcastlelabs.ai: aurora hero, mobile nav, brand tokens, PostHog A/B. And the parts we left visibly unfinished on purpose.
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Three providers, one methodology card
Beacon ·We wired three LLM providers through one probe runner. The output is a methodology card that shows exactly how each answer was produced.
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Recommendations are the secret
Beacon ·Every GEO tool ships a beautiful dashboard. We bet the value is the recommendation, and rebuilt Beacon so every rec is shippable as written.