What does it take to build a world trading with confidence?
Research towards a world trading with confidence—where shoppers can trust what they read and merchants can earn the trust they deserve.
Publications & working papers
03 / Shopify Ecosystem
Preprint
Extends the original snapshot with weekly app observations from 2019–2026 to examine platform governance, competition and application survival.
02 / AI & Engineering
Preprint
Argues that an agent skill is a software artefact and should be built with single responsibility, low coupling, and evaluation-driven authoring.
02 / AI & Engineering
Whitepaper
Keeping a project workable across resets and usage limits by treating state as files on disk, with disjoint roles for a Producer and a Composer.
03 / Shopify Ecosystem
Published paper
A September 2025 snapshot of 4,213 active apps and 55 categories, examining concentration and the relationship between entry timing and recent growth.