https://catalystforge.com/blog/ Essays from Catalyst Forge. en Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://catalystforge.com/blog/ai-just-changed https://catalystforge.com/blog/ai-just-changed Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writing A February 2026 reaction to one viral post, kept as a dated perspective: what Shumer claimed, why it mattered for your business, and five things to do about it. https://catalystforge.com/blog/nutrition-labels-for-software https://catalystforge.com/blog/nutrition-labels-for-software Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writing One small file per question you have at adoption time: what an app is built from, what it can do, what it touches. Some labels fit any software, others cover the AI layers. We ship them on the tools we publish. Hub at xfacts.dev. https://catalystforge.com/blog/prompts-arent-all-you-need https://catalystforge.com/blog/prompts-arent-all-you-need Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writing Every workaround you write is a bet against the next model. The work moved off the prompt and into the architecture around it. https://catalystforge.com/blog/what-over-how https://catalystforge.com/blog/what-over-how Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writing The kickoff ends early. Everyone nodded at modernize. Three people just heard three different projects, and nobody finds out until month four. https://catalystforge.com/blog/what-we-didnt-build https://catalystforge.com/blog/what-we-didnt-build Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writing We shipped Exec Foundry, a search workspace for senior professionals. The obvious feature we turned down says the most about how we build. https://catalystforge.com/blog/wielding-the-new-fire https://catalystforge.com/blog/wielding-the-new-fire Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writing Fire is the lens I use for AI: a primitive, not a tool, and one that became widely accessible faster than we learned to use it well. Most people are still using it to keep the animals away.