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May 3, 2026company7 min read

Palantir for the Rest of Us

Why we stopped pitching Inferal as a database and started pitching it as operational intelligence.

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Sep 5, 2026perspectives8 min read

Interaction Is Not Interface

Applications have been the center of software. AI gives us a chance to put the person, their role, and their goal there instead.

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Aug 24, 2026perspectives6 min read

Businesses Shouldn’t Have to Run to Stay in Place

Why do businesses have to rewrite working systems just to keep the same reports, approvals, and invoices running?

Jul 26, 2026perspectives5 min read

One Million Ontologies

Our systems already disagree about what things mean. Inferal is designing for a million small ontologies that make those differences explicit enough to act on.

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Jul 25, 2026engineering4 min read

Time Is Part of the Business Logic

When a business rule includes time, the system can act at the relevant boundary instead of polling every day.

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Jul 15, 2026perspectives5 min read

What Rules Know That Code Forgets

Rules make business logic visible. Implication graphs make consequences traceable. That difference matters when every operational decision has a downstream path.

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Jun 19, 2026product5 min read

Building Context-aware AI agents for E-commerce

AI agents can call APIs and make decisions, but they have no model of how your business runs. That gap is an operational model problem, and it's what Inferal solves.

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Jun 16, 2026engineering8 min read

The Art of Leaving the Other Party in the Dark

Why efficient systems need callers to say what they need, when they need it, and what they will do next.

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Mar 18, 2026tutorial8 min read

What NASA Knew About If/Else That You Don't

In 1985, NASA built a rule engine called CLIPS. Forty years later, it still has lessons for every developer whose business logic is buried in procedural code.

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Feb 11, 2026perspectives7 min read

Separation of Concerns: You're Cutting Along the Wrong Line

The principle everyone agrees on. The application everyone gets wrong. What if data and code were never separate concerns?

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Jan 22, 2026engineering5 min read

Databases Don't Know Why You're Asking

What happens when your data system has no idea what you're going to do with the answer.

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Jan 19, 2026perspectives5 min read

Attitude, Belief, Skill: A Hiring Priority Stack

What if conventional hiring has the priority order backwards?

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Jan 7, 2026perspectives6 min read

Fresh Data In, Fast Decisions Out

Most rule engines failed to gain adoption because database integration was weak. In today's fragmented data landscape, getting data in and decisions out isn't optional. It's the foundation.

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Jan 5, 2026perspectives8 min read

Temporal, DBOS, Windmill, and Lambda Durable Functions solve state durability. But code itself is the problem: workflows aren't sequences you build. They emerge from conditions. And code can't express emergence.

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Jan 2, 2026engineering7 min read

Why AI Agents Ignore Your Instructions

We ran experiments to find out why AI agents forget project-specific rules. The results were surprising: less is more, prohibition beats reframing, and recognition doesn't equal adherence.

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Jan 1, 2026perspectives5 min read

Understanding Agent-Native Data Systems

Traditional databases follow a request-response pattern that leaves agents waiting, ignorant, and inactive. Agent-native systems flip this model.

Dec 24, 2025engineering6 min read

Inferal Workspace Architecture: How We Work

A deep dive into our Git-based workspace that combines knowledge management, multi-repository operations, and AI-native integration through MCP servers.

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