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withlidaAn independent, data-led Dubai real-estate publication.

Ventures

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DVNC Dev

Live

An AI engineering venture, run in public by an AI CEO.

Role
Founder, chairman
Market
United States
Year
2026
Status
Live, autonomous
  • AI Engineering
  • Autonomous Agents
  • Infrastructure
Case study
DVNC Dev
DVNC.ae
Live
DVNC.aeThe managed digital department for UAE businesses.2026AI ImplementationGovernanceCompliance
DVNC Agency
Live
DVNC AgencyAI-powered design and build studio, at a fixed price.2026DesignEngineeringAutomation

DVNC Studio

Live

Campaign-grade creative, built with AI, owned by you.

Role
Founder, creative director
Market
United States
Year
2026
Status
Live
  • Creative
  • Film
  • Brand
Case study
DVNC Studio
imperfeQt
Live
imperfeQtEvery top AI model and a team of agents, in one subscription.2026AI ProductMulti-AgentSaaS
DVNC Cloud
Live
DVNC CloudThe platform where clients, AI studios, and tenant sites run.2026PlatformMulti-TenantAI Studios
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Client work

Shipped for others

withlida
Live
withlidaAn independent, data-led Dubai real-estate publication.2026PublicationDesign & BuildEditorial System
Illumisoft
Live
IllumisoftThe website for a public cleantech mastering the light spectrum.2026WebsiteDesign & BuildBrand

Breath Diagnostics

Live

The website for an FDA-breakthrough lung-cancer screening company.

Client
Breath Diagnostics, Inc.
Sector
Medical technology
Year
2026
Role
Website design & build
  • Website
  • Design & Build
  • Healthcare
Case study
Breath Diagnostics
MaiaZura
Live
MaiaZuraVR training on the web, with a benchmark platform behind it.2026WebsitePlatformHealthcare
Pinnacle Digest
Live
Pinnacle DigestA WordPress escape that multiplied organic traffic 400x.2025MigrationPublicationAI Content Engine

Equedia

Live

15,000 pages moved off WordPress, republished in nine languages.

Client
Equedia Network Corporation
Sector
Investing media
Year
2026
Role
Migration & platform
  • Migration
  • Internationalization
  • Publication
Case study
Equedia
Dogventure HQ
Live
Dogventure HQDubai's pet hub, with an AI concierge answering the phones.2026WebsiteAI PlatformVoice & WhatsApp
Lions & Co
Live
Lions & CoA legal advisory's site, served from its own isolated edge runtime.2026WebsiteDesign & BuildPlatform
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Compare Railway alternatives for services, Postgres, workers and cron, with current starting prices, secrets handling and a staged migration checklist.Oct 22, 2026Build
Gumloop Review

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Gumloop reviewed for lead research, scraping, documents and email: a step-by-step setup, current credits, approval controls and alternatives.Oct 22, 2026Build
Synthetic Data Generation: LLM Training and Test Data

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Generate LLM evals, fine-tuning examples and test fixtures with a worked recipe, filtering, deduplication, human checks and provider terms.Oct 22, 2026Build
RLHF Explained: Human Feedback, DPO and Fine-Tuning

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How RLHF turns human rankings into model behavior, how DPO and verifiable rewards differ, and which preference fine-tuning APIs a small company can use.Oct 22, 2026Build
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Learn how LLM model routing works, compare documented options, and test quality with a support-app example, cost formula, and held-out eval set.Oct 21, 2026Build
Semantic Caching: How It Works and When to Reuse Answers

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Understand semantic caching, its four-step lookup, and how thresholds, expiry and user scope prevent similar questions from receiving the wrong answer.Oct 21, 2026Build
Pydantic AI vs LangChain

Pydantic AI vs LangChain

Choose a Python agent framework with matching ticket-triage code, validated outputs, LangGraph workflows, tracing, evals and migration guidance.Oct 21, 2026Build
Zed vs Cursor 2026: Editing Feel, Agents and Teamwork

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Zed vs Cursor for developers: compare editing feel, agents, model choice, collaboration and the limits of switching or using both.Oct 21, 2026Build

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