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Engineering2 September 2026How do we know when an AI's search is correct?
When an AI answers you, it searched something first — and a silently failed search sounds exactly as confident as a successful one. Plain-English background on the problem, and how our search now refuses to stay silent about its own blind spots.
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Product25 August 2026BTAB now runs the buy side end-to-end — and hands your books to Xero
Purchase orders that actually reach your supplier, receiving that expects partial deliveries, supplier bills checked line by line against what you ordered and what arrived, and aging in both directions — now in the same dashboard as your orders, with Xero-ready exports at the end of it.
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Company18 August 2026How to publish on the Btab blog
A staff guide to getting a post onto btab.app/blog: the phone-first publishing loop, the manual CMS lane, the house rules, and the painless undo.
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Engineering17 August 2026The Ledger and the Wire
How our internal dashboard does realtime messaging with no broker and no Redis — an append-only NDJSON log as the source of truth, and a 30-line in-process bus whose loss costs nothing but liveness.
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Product23 July 2026A cleaner checkout: a WooCommerce-style form and three ways to pay
The storefront checkout is now a clean, WooCommerce-style form — billing and shipping details, a GST-inclusive order summary, and three ways to pay: Credit Card, PayPal (coming soon), and Direct bank transfer that works on every store out of the box.
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18 July 2026Introducing the public storefront API (Phase 1)
Vendors can now read their own storefront — site, products, reviews, categories, search — programmatically via their API key, over a read-only, key-scoped, rate-limited surface.
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