What we tried, what it cost, what the numbers said
IDEA Management builds and runs its own software products, largely with automation. These are write-ups of things we actually did — including the ones that did not work, with the real figures attached.
How these posts are written and maintained
Drafted with AI assistance. Every factual claim is registered with a primary source, verified before publishing, and re-checked on a schedule. Each post carries a dated status block generated from that record — not typed by hand — so you can see when its claims were last confirmed.
- Holds
- Every claim re-verified and still accurate.
- Decayed
- Still broadly true, but at least one claim has moved enough to matter.
- Superseded
- A central claim is no longer true. The post stays up, and says what changed.
- Retracted
- A claim was wrong. The post keeps its URL, with the correction on top and the original preserved below it.
We do not delete posts to tidy up a mistake. Spotted an error? Tell us at [email protected] and the correction gets logged on the post.
Writing about IDEA Base the product lives on its own blog.
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We overstated our own burn rate by 22% for two months
An automated bookkeeper read an annual invoice as a monthly one. Nothing was double-charged, no vendor was wrong, and the number on our own dashboard was still inflated by about $45 a month. What the fix actually had to be.