Research

Public notes on B2B problems I'm investigating before I ship.

• What actually happens when you install an MCP server in 2026On the install-time quality gap in the Model Context Protocol ecosystem, and the small utility built to close one specific slice of it. August 2026.
• The Historian Federation Gap: What Cross-Vendor Plant Data Costs Small IntegratorsOn the cross-vendor historian federation layer that platform-native SCADA MCP moves aren't shipping to small industrial control-system integrator firms. July 2026.
• What an independent MSI's point database looks like to an LLM in 2026On the Brick/Haystack-aware BACnet/IP MCP layer that vendor agentic platforms aren't shipping to the independent BAS integrator tier. June 2026.