Blog & writing
Notes from the
review queue.
What we’re learning as we build the team-context layer in the open. Engineering depth, product thinking, and the occasional field note from a founding customer.
EngineeringMay 12, 2026
Sempleo speaks MCP both ways. Here’s why that matters.
The Model Context Protocol is the first serious open standard for how LLMs read and write to external systems. Sempleo is an MCP server and an MCP client. That choice is load-bearing.
Lasse Nørby5 MINEngineeringApr 07, 2026
Haiku is the reviewer. Here’s why a smaller model does this job.
Every entry in your context gets a quality dot — empty, thin, or sharp — scored by a small model running constantly in the background. Why Haiku, and why not the frontier model, is the entire trick.
Lasse Nørby4 MINEngineeringDec 09, 2025
Why Sempleo’s context layer runs on Postgres.
A new category does not need new infrastructure. It needs boring, predictable, well-understood infrastructure so the novel thing can fail safely. Postgres is the right answer.
Lasse Nørby5 MIN