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No. 0022026-05-29

The folder of zips and grep

Every solo high-volume Claude user already has a folder of exported conversations and a grep command. That folder is the competitive landscape for Cairn. We say why a team product, an enterprise product, and an AI-native-small-team product all miss it, and why the solo operator is the only buyer whose decision timeline matches the speed at which the surface is changing.

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No. 0012026-05-29

The Shadow-IT Reality of Generative AI in Engineering Teams

Every engineering team has someone pasting code into Claude. Network-level blocking fails because the engineer's incentive to ship outweighs the security team's incentive to gate. This piece examines the actual data path of an LLM paste, the categories of leak it creates, and the architectural property a containment tool needs to have to make the trade survivable.

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