Things we built,
and left running.
Small utilities we made to answer our own questions, then kept online for anyone with the same ones. Internal or external, they all live here, and there will be more.
- TKI · live since 2023
Token Cost Index
Tracks LLM pricing across every major provider since GPT-4 launched. Compare cost-per-task, watch the ~97% price collapse play out, and size the bill before it lands in production.
- Reference · 1994–2026
Field guide
Thirty years of modern tech in plain language. Ten eras, the people and companies behind each, and the jargon you will meet in a vendor deck, with a note on what every era leaves running long after everyone moved on.
If you're staring at a migration you've been putting off, let's talk.
Thirty-minute call by default. No deck, no sales engineer, no follow-up sequence. Either there's a Hardcut-shaped engagement here or there isn't, and you'll know which one by the end of the call.