Farrington engineering desk · Asheville, NC

Systems, with the
hood open.

The technical side of Farrington Development—open-source software, production field notes, working systems, and useful experiments from three decades of building for the web.

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PRODUCT ENGINEERINGAI SYSTEMSOPEN SOURCEPRODUCTION OPERATIONS

01 / OPEN SOURCE

Useful software should
stand on its own.

OPENOCTIAGPL-3.0SELF-HOSTED

An open operations system for teams that want to own their stack.

OpenOcti is the open-source edition of our operations platform: CRM, projects, documents, voice, and AI staff in one self-hosted system. The source, issues, and release history are public.

Runs on your infrastructure
Bring your own model providers
Community-supported and inspectable

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PUBLIC BUILD · OPEN SOURCE

02 / FIELD NOTES

Lessons from systems
that have to work Monday.

Architecture, product decisions, and operating lessons—written from production work, not theory.

001 Building an open agent harness without giving up operational control AI SYSTEMS 002 Why a modern website should behave like a web application PRODUCT 003 Technical SEO for developer-led and AI product companies DISCOVERY 004 What changes when an internal tool becomes an operating system ARCHITECTURE

03 / OPERATING PRINCIPLES

Built to survive
contact with reality.

Build the whole path.

A feature is not finished at the interface. Data, failure handling, security, deployment, and recovery are part of the product.

Operate what we ship.

Production changes the questions. We build with the people, constraints, and Monday-morning consequences in view.

Show the evidence.

Demos, source, release history, and measured outcomes are more useful than a wall of claims.

HAVE A HARD SYSTEM TO BUILD?

Bring the problem.
We’ll bring the bench.

Farrington Development works with a small number of teams where the cost of a bad build is high and the right system changes the business.

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