Custom AI agents that run your support and lead-gen 24/7 — built on your business, so they know your field, remember, and learn. We also finish and launch software products. 100+ shipped since 2018.https://edsdev.ca/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-06-03-an-ai-lead-generation-agent-that-books-meetings-while-you-sleep/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-06-03-an-ai-lead-generation-agent-that-books-meetings-while-you-sleep/How we build AI lead generation agents that actually book meetings: the workflow, the prompts, the guardrails, and the bits that quietly break at 3am.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-06-02-building-an-ai-chatbot-for-small-business-that-actually-knows-your-pro/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-06-02-building-an-ai-chatbot-for-small-business-that-actually-knows-your-pro/The RAG stack we ship for small business chatbots: ingestion, embeddings, retrieval, guardrails, and the boring parts that decide whether it answers correctly or hallucinates a refund policy.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-06-01-how-to-vet-mvp-development-companies-without-getting-burned-12-questio/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-06-01-how-to-vet-mvp-development-companies-without-getting-burned-12-questio/Twelve questions I use to separate real MVP development companies from agencies that will burn six months of runway and ship a demo. Here's what to ask.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-31-ai-agent-for-customer-support-vs-the-chatbot-you-already-tried-what-s-/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-31-ai-agent-for-customer-support-vs-the-chatbot-you-already-tried-what-s-/Your old support bot routed people in circles. An AI agent reads tickets, calls your APIs, and closes loops. Here's the real gap, with examples.Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-30-mvp-software-development-when-the-prototype-already-exists/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-30-mvp-software-development-when-the-prototype-already-exists/A field guide to finishing what Cursor, v0, and Claude Code started. How to take a half-working vibe-coded prototype and ship it as a real MVP without rewriting from scratch.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-29-what-to-actually-scope-in-an-mvp-development-service-contract-a-buyer-/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-29-what-to-actually-scope-in-an-mvp-development-service-contract-a-buyer-/Most MVP contracts hide the parts that matter. Here is what to demand in writing before you sign with any MVP development service, with the line items I have watched startups get burned on.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-28-ai-chatbots-for-customer-service-what-actually-works-after-90-days-in-/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-28-ai-chatbots-for-customer-service-what-actually-works-after-90-days-in-/Ninety days of running customer service bots in production. What survived, what got ripped out, and the design choices that decide whether your bot helps or annoys.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-26-cloudflare-turnstile-vs-recaptcha-why-we-migrated-and-what-it-cost-us/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-26-cloudflare-turnstile-vs-recaptcha-why-we-migrated-and-what-it-cost-us/We pulled reCAPTCHA out of three production apps and replaced it with Cloudflare Turnstile. Here's what broke, what it saved, and where Turnstile still falls short.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-25-observability-for-a-side-project-80-of-the-value-for-0-month/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-25-observability-for-a-side-project-80-of-the-value-for-0-month/How I wire up logs, errors, uptime and product analytics on side projects without paying a cent. Free tiers, sharp edges, and what I actually skip.Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-24-how-we-batch-generate-50-000-cover-images-a-month-for-interior-ai-desi/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-24-how-we-batch-generate-50-000-cover-images-a-month-for-interior-ai-desi/The actual pipeline behind 50k monthly room renders at Interior AI Designs: queues, FAL, idempotency keys, and the boring failure modes nobody writes aboutSun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-23-why-we-still-pick-flutter-firebase-admob-for-new-mobile-apps-in-2026/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-23-why-we-still-pick-flutter-firebase-admob-for-new-mobile-apps-in-2026/After shipping a pile of apps across iOS and Android, we keep landing on the same boring stack. Here's why Flutter, Firebase and AdMob still win for us in 2026.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-22-shipping-an-mcp-server-so-agents-can-email-us/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-22-shipping-an-mcp-server-so-agents-can-email-us/We built a tiny MCP server that lets Claude and Cursor send us email through Resend. Here's the actual code, the auth headaches, and what broke in production.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-21-surviving-app-store-review-the-7-rejection-causes-we-keep-hitting/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-21-surviving-app-store-review-the-7-rejection-causes-we-keep-hitting/Seven specific reasons Apple keeps rejecting our apps, what each rejection actually looks like in Resolution Center, and what we changed in the build to get through.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-20-pair-build-mode-how-we-work-with-vibe-coders-without-taking-over-their/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-20-pair-build-mode-how-we-work-with-vibe-coders-without-taking-over-their/Most agencies eat the codebase. We don't. Here's how EdsDev runs pair-build engagements with vibe coders shipping in Cursor and Claude Code — without hijacking the keyboard or the vision.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-20-five-product-decisions-that-doubled-photo-ai-studio-retention/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-20-five-product-decisions-that-doubled-photo-ai-studio-retention/How we doubled D7 retention on Photo AI Studio by killing the gallery, charging differently, and removing 'AI' from half the UI. Specific changes, real numbers.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-20-anatomy-of-the-claude-prompt-that-writes-this-blog/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-20-anatomy-of-the-claude-prompt-that-writes-this-blog/The actual system prompt we use to generate EdsDev posts, broken down section by section. Voice rules, forbidden words, JSON shape, and the parts that still don't work.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-14-the-vibe-coder-pre-launch-checklist-what-actually-breaks-in-production/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-14-the-vibe-coder-pre-launch-checklist-what-actually-breaks-in-production/You shipped it in a weekend with Cursor. Now it has users. Here's the unglamorous list of things that break when AI-generated code meets real traffic, real money, and real people.Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-12-hello-world/https://edsdev.ca/blog/2026-05-12-hello-world/Why this blog exists and an honest disclosure: most of these posts are written by Claude with my supervision.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT