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Studio15 Apr 20258 min read

What we learned shipping 47 products

Daniel Okafor
Principal · AI Systems
What we learned shipping 47 products

Six years, four continents, one consistent finding: the hard part is never the technology.

Every successful project we've shipped had three things in common: a single accountable owner on the client side, a weekly demo cadence, and a written definition of done.

Every project that struggled had the opposite: vague ownership, monthly stakeholder reviews, and a moving target.

The technology is rarely the bottleneck. Operating model is.

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