# orfloat

> A forward-deployed applied-AI engineering lab. Evidence over declaration: every published artifact carries its workings (repo, commits, evals).

A clean markdown twin of each artifact lives at the same path with a `.md` extension.

A hand-written studio brief is at https://orfloat.com/llms-brief.md; the full concatenated dossier (this index, expanded into every twin) is at https://orfloat.com/llms-full.txt.

## research

- [A CEO's appointment-management agent, ported from Telegram to WhatsApp](https://orfloat.com/research/appointment-agent/): A Claude Code session agent built to serve a marketing-agency principal and his prospective clients through one business number: it answers leads, books consultations, manages the principal's calendar in conversation, and the moment a booking lands it hands him a calendar link and a ready-to-review welcome draft. Built first on Telegram, then re-homed onto WhatsApp's Cloud API through a self-authored channel, brain unchanged. Sealed: a private client demo, shown by its dated build figures. (ORF-R-2026-003, 2026-06-04)
- [Forty-two agents on our own codebase, and the call they couldn't make](https://orfloat.com/research/dogfooding-the-workflow/): We pointed Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Code's new dynamic workflows at our own website: 42 agents, about 48 minutes, one production deploy. The workflow surfaced a genuinely high-value fix and then nearly fooled itself. The judgment that caught it is the whole point. (ORF-R-2026-002, 2026-05-29)
- [cc-dm: peer-to-peer messaging between Claude Code sessions](https://orfloat.com/research/cc-dm/): A Claude Code plugin that lets parallel agent sessions DM each other through a shared SQLite bus. No daemon, no ports, no network. (ORF-R-2026-001, 2026-03-21)

## notes

- [Claude Opus 4.8, and the discipline it asks for](https://orfloat.com/notes/opus-4-8-discipline/): Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8: a model far less likely to let its own code flaws pass, paired with workflows that orchestrate hundreds of subagents. The capability stopped being the constraint a while ago; what is left is whether you can describe the work and discern the output. (ORF-N-2026-006, 2026-05-28)
- [Software after software, and the record so far](https://orfloat.com/notes/software-after-software/): Twelve theses on what software becomes when intelligence is abundant, and the empirical record from the last six months that says they are no longer speculative. (ORF-N-2026-005, 2026-05-27)
- [AI is not a software business anymore](https://orfloat.com/notes/ai-is-not-a-software-business/): Hyperscaler capex hit $700B in 2026. Your AI vendor agreement is a supply contract. (ORF-N-2026-003, 2026-05-24)
- [Anthropic's enterprise playbook, read from Muscat](https://orfloat.com/notes/anthropic-enterprise-playbook/): A 35-page enterprise guide from Anthropic mapped against what a Muscat operator actually needs. (ORF-N-2026-004, 2026-05-24)
- [The capability overhang is no longer theoretical](https://orfloat.com/notes/capability-overhang/): Claude Opus 4.7 shipped six weeks ago and the frontier keeps moving, but almost none of that movement has reached operating businesses in the Gulf. (ORF-N-2026-002, 2026-05-22)
- [Model Context Protocol, plainly explained](https://orfloat.com/notes/mcp-plainly-explained/): MCP is the boring-sounding standard that makes the rest of Anthropic's stack non-boring. (ORF-N-2026-001, 2026-05-19)

## practice

- [what we do](https://orfloat.com/practice/what-we-do/): The offer, stated plainly: what the lab takes on for the few it works with. (ORF-P-2026-001, 2026-06-04)
- [who we work with](https://orfloat.com/practice/who-we-work-with/): Who we take on, and the bar a fit has to clear. (ORF-P-2026-002, 2026-06-04)
- [how we work](https://orfloat.com/practice/how-we-work/): How an engagement runs: AI embedded in your operation, not advice from a distance. (ORF-P-2026-003, 2026-06-04)
- [why us](https://orfloat.com/practice/why-us/): The work we have already opened, and the certificates behind it. (ORF-P-2026-004, 2026-06-04)
- [get in touch](https://orfloat.com/practice/get-in-touch/): The studio behind the work, and the way to start a conversation. (ORF-P-2026-005, 2026-06-04)