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  1. Engineering

    Integrating Jev for Fast PatchOps Argument Validation

    Solved Systems uses Jev to validate PatchOps arguments before tool calls. The process returns a decision and confidence score in 240 milliseconds, helping protect write calls from bad or poisoned input.

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  2. Technology

    Pricing AI in Barrels: Why We Denominate Tokens in Energy

    We built a live ticker that converts commodity prices into AI tokens. Here's the methodology behind it — and why the connection between energy markets and AI compute is more than a gimmick.

    Read 6 min
  3. Engineering

    How We're Using Reinforcement Learning Principles to Build Better Oil & Gas Tools

    PatchOps is building a connector eval system that applies the same task-and-verify loop behind modern AI training to continuously improve the quality of our MCP tools for the energy industry.

    Read 5 min
  4. Case Studies

    Paylocity to Active Directory: Automating Employee Lifecycle Sync for Mark-Taylor Residential

    How we built an automated employee lifecycle system that bridges Paylocity HR data with both cloud and on-premises identity infrastructure, eliminating manual IT overhead and notification noise.

    Read 5 min
  5. Engineering

    How We Made Keyframe Editing Feel Like Moving a Camera

    We replaced nine property tracks and manual number entry with a visual framing overlay that lets you drag a rectangle on the video preview to control zoom and pan keyframes.

    Read 4 min
  6. Engineering

    How We Replaced Hardcoded Video Templates with AI-Generated Layouts

    We had 48 hardcoded Remotion templates that made every client's video look the same. Here's how we replaced them with an AI-driven scene description language that treats layout as data — and never wrote another template again.

    Read 8 min
  7. Engineering

    How We Cut Token Consumption by 98% Moving from Tool Calling to Code Execution

    Every MCP tool call was flooding our context window with raw JSON. By shifting to server-side code execution, we reduced token consumption by 95-99% across our energy industry API integrations.

    Read 8 min
  8. Case Studies

    How We Automated 200+ Daily Tasks for an Oil & Gas Company

    From 40+ manual spreadsheets to intelligent automation. A case study in systematic workflow transformation.

    Read 3 min
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