Notes on building agents that ship.
Architecture, lessons from production, and how we think about premium, plug-and-play software.
Shipyard now supports MCP
Connect an MCP client to Vak Shipyard and bring governed database-migration work into the agent workflows your team already uses.
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Introducing Moat: your investment research workspace
Moat brings watchlists, holdings, Screener data, concalls and sector news into a calmer research process built around your own investing thesis.
Stream Discovery is now in Vak Signals
Vak Signals can now discover recurring, previously unknown creatives from live and recorded feeds, then route confirmed detections into your workflow.
ACR just landed in Vak Signals
Vak Signals brings automatic content recognition to approved audio and video catalogs — with offline recognition available now and live monitoring in beta.
Catch the bad migration before anyone reviews it
Human review is necessary but not sufficient. Vak Shipyard now runs engine-aware validation rules on every migration before review, enforces per-project approval policy, and applies approved changes on a schedule — across 22 database engines.
The cron job failed, but your uptime monitor stayed green
Scheduled jobs fail quietly because ordinary uptime checks cannot see them. Uptrail tracks triggers, heartbeats, deadlines, alerts, and recovery as one operational trail.
Invoicing should feel calm, not like admin
Most invoicing tools bury a simple job under endless screens. Vak Studio keeps your companies, bank accounts and GST profiles ready, so the next invoice is quick — with clean PDFs built in.
Why database changes need a review process
Running schema changes straight against production is how outages happen. Vak Shipyard turns every change into a reviewed, approved, and audited migration — across Postgres, MySQL, and ClickHouse.
Why omnichannel agents beat ordinary chatbots
A chatbot answers in one box. Vak Agent meets teams across web, WhatsApp, phone calls, email and Slack — with a multimodal voice pipeline and proactive outreach behind one governed brain.
Why uptime monitoring needs to go deeper than pings
A green port check does not mean your product is healthy. Vak Uptrail is built for real database, queue, endpoint, and cron monitoring — with team roles, an audit log, and white-label status pages.
What makes an AI agent universal (truly plug-and-play)
Most AI agents are demos welded to one dataset. A universal agent drops into any business, speaks to any system, and is productive on day one. Here's the architecture that makes that real.
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