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by Praveen Ghanta

Praveen Ghanta, founder of DevHawk, on hiring, building, and shipping software — and why most of the standard playbook doesn't hold up under founder math.

Weekly newsletters on the latest on engineering, systems, and smart scaling in the age of AI.

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The words AI Governance Auditing: Beyond the Policy Binder in white text on a dark background with stacked indigo blocks
AI Strategy
August 13, 2026 · 7 min read

AI Governance Auditing: Why the Policy Binder Won't Save You

AI governance that lives in a document is theater. Real governance is auditable systems, and most teams discover the gap only after they've shipped.

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AI Strategy
August 12, 2026 · 7 min read

Agentic AI Examples: What's Running in Production Right Now

The agent examples worth studying aren't the viral demos. They're the unglamorous production deployments, and every one of them shares the same pattern.

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AI Strategy
August 11, 2026 · 7 min read

Agentic AI vs Generative AI: The Difference That Decides What You Build

Generative AI answers. Agentic AI acts. That one-word difference determines the architecture, the cost, and the risk of everything you build with it.

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The words AI for Software Development: What Gets Faster in white text on a dark background with three stacked indigo and coral blocks
Software Dev
August 10, 2026 · 8 min read

AI for Software Development: Where It Actually Makes Teams Faster (and Where It Doesn't)

Almost every engineering team is using AI to write code now. Very few are shipping faster. The difference is everything that happens around the code.

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3D illustration of a construction hard hat resting on a tablet dashboard with checklists, charts, and a rising arrow on a dark background
AI Strategy
June 16, 2026 · 9 min read

AI Features in Construction Management Software: What's Worth Building and What's a Distraction

Your Procore or Autodesk Build instance isn't the bottleneck. The two AI features that actually move your margin are a thin layer on top of what you already run. You don't need to migrate to get them.

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3D illustration of construction scheduling: a calendar with task blocks, a clock, a Gantt chart tablet, and a crane beside a rising arrow on a dark background
AI Strategy
June 16, 2026 · 8 min read

AI in Construction Scheduling: What It Can Actually Do and What It Still Can't

AI scheduling tools are only as good as the data feeding them and the system they plug into. Bolt a predictive layer onto the scheduler your crews already run. Don't force a new tool on the people keeping the job on track.

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3D illustration of generative AI in construction: a blueprint unrolling into a glowing network of nodes, with a chat assistant icon and checklist on a dark background
AI Strategy
June 10, 2026 · 8 min read

Generative AI in Construction: Kill the Document Tax Before You Chase the Flashy Stuff

The ROI in construction isn't a flashy model. It's the document and coordination tax that quietly burns margin on every project. Generative AI is finally good enough to kill most of it.

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3D illustration of construction estimating: a rolled blueprint, tape measure, calculator, and a rising bar chart on a dark background
AI Strategy
June 9, 2026 · 8 min read

AI in Construction Estimating: Where It Helps, Where It Doesn't, and What to Build

The pitch is that AI will transform your estimates. The reality is narrower and more useful: it compresses takeoffs, surfaces patterns in your own historical cost data, and hands the judgment calls back to you.

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3D illustration of construction safety: a hard hat with a shield check mark, a warning sign, and a safety checklist clipboard on a dark background
AI Strategy
June 9, 2026 · 10 min read

AI in Construction Safety: The Integrations That Actually Reduce Risk

The job site demos look impressive. The tools that actually move your incident rate are the ones nobody's pitching, the ones quietly wired into the systems your crews already use.

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AI Consulting for Small Businesses: What Is Realistic for Your Budget
AI Strategy
March 27, 2026 · 10 min read

AI Consulting for Small Businesses: What Is Realistic for Your Budget

AI consulting was never only for Fortune 500 companies — the right-sized version exists, and knowing what to ask for changes everything about the outcome.

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AI Automation Consulting: Which Business Processes to Automate First
AI Strategy
March 25, 2026 · 11 min read

AI Automation Consulting: Which Business Processes to Automate First

Most companies evaluate dozens of AI automation options and ship none — because they skip the one decision that determines everything: which process to automate first.

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AI Opportunity Assessment: How to Pick the Right First AI Project
AI Strategy
March 24, 2026 · 10 min read

AI Opportunity Assessment: How to Pick the Right First AI Project

The most expensive AI mistake is not building the wrong thing — it is building the right thing in the wrong order, and skipping the assessment that would have told you the difference.

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