Redstone Foundry

Redstone Foundry delivers high-end web development, AI-enabled product features, and modernization paths for teams that need judgment with pace.

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Gemini 4 Hydrogen is Google's fast, cheaper model at $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens. Revisit the AI idea you shelved for cost: test 20 real tasks, add human review time, redo the math.
https://t.co/RNEwCpJx6y

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Your AI vendor will change the deal: prices, limits, models, plans. Set things up so a change is an annoyance, not an outage. Know what depends on which plan, keep your prompts in your own docs, and try a second option once before you need it. https://t.co/ZR8NAwkJGc

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

United now blocks unauthorized AI agents from booking on its site and app. Agents can still help research; the customer books.

Your business needs its own answer: what agents may do alone, which steps need the customer, and how a trusted agent gets in.

https://t.co/yRblvhhIZR

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Anthropic gave 50 analysts a coding agent with a slight lean on close calls. They went with the lean 86% of the time, and 77% reused its arguments. Before you hand a decision to an agent, write down your own call first. Then compare.

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

OpenAI opened Businesses in ChatGPT today: claim your profile, add prices and product feeds, see mentions and clicks. US stores can add a Business Agent.

Claim it this week and fix the facts first. An agent repeats whatever you feed it.

https://t.co/tVWIPw5lVs

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Three vendor quotes that are far apart usually describe three different projects. Before comparing prices, line up platform, migration depth, integrations, QA, and support. If the proposals can't be compared, the scope isn't settled yet. https://t.co/nvICYGgXlF

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.2 today: up to 30% faster, $8/$40 per M tokens (was $10/$50).

Its own advice: start with Opus 5.5, step up to Fable for the hardest work. Route by job, and check data retention before customer data goes in.

https://t.co/Y5ms280BnU

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Shopify's Knowledge base now lives in admin: facts AI agents get about your store, drafted from your pages and held until you publish. Before the holidays, check shipping cutoffs, returns, and hours. Publish only what you'd promise a customer. https://t.co/1Wg7trqt14

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Square and NetSuite are both putting AI agents inside the system that holds your numbers. Before you ask one anything: write down the 3 questions you check every week, clean up your categories, and keep approve-before-act on. The agent is only as good as your data.

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Supabase CLI v3 is now the default install. db push targets your local stack unless you pass --remote, so a CI job running a local stack can pass and change nothing in production. Pin the version, then check what's live.
https://t.co/HRicsRyu0Y

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Handoff problems rarely start on handoff day. They start when nobody defines ownership.

Before the work begins: who owns hosting, DNS, the CMS, and deploys? Who watches forms and errors after launch?

https://t.co/mhkqORsbpm

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Handoff problems rarely start on handoff day. They start when nobody defines ownership.

Before the work begins: who owns hosting, DNS, the CMS, and deploys? Who watches forms and errors after launch?

https://t.co/mhkqORsJeU

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Black Friday is about three weeks out. Pick your change-freeze date now.

Before it: remove unused apps (October's Shopify app incidents hijacked checkouts via app settings), turn on 2FA everywhere, test checkout like a shopper, and name who's on call.

https://t.co/biSzmG3iHX

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Next.js shipped 7 security fixes today (16.4.5, 15.5.29). The High one: in apps using Cache Components, one tenant's cached data can reach another under specific conditions. If one app serves many customers, upgrade and redeploy today.
https://t.co/ZuHYKDDYOo

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Gemini now connects to Google Ads, Business Profile, Shopify, Xero, and more for small businesses.

Our advice: connect one app, not seven. Start with the job that eats the most hours, and check the output against numbers you already trust.

https://t.co/SQBLe7EvV9

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Vercel Shop is GA: Next.js + Shopify with machine-readable product data and MCP shopping tools (UCP). Agents need price and stock as data, not a screenshot of your store.

https://t.co/bkNHETsvKb

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

The hard part of a first release isn't building it. It's deciding what stays out.

For each feature ask: without it, would a customer fail to get the job done, or just wish for more? Only the first group ships.

Everything else goes on a dated "next" list.

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

A useful AI MVP is not the smallest demo. It is the smallest feature that finishes a real workflow with constrained inputs, a reviewable output, and a clear next action.

https://t.co/YW008hwwmy

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

AI prototypes always look cheap. Production adds longer inputs, retries, retrieval, logging, evals, and review. Price the workflow, not the request, and model the high-usage case before scope hardens. That case is what success looks like.

https://t.co/sv2VNGC6no

[Redstone Foundry @redstonefndry]

Claude Duet can now buy supplies, send invoices, and issue refunds through Stripe, asking the owner before it pays. Research preview for now.

Before any agent touches your money: a per-purchase cap, a monthly ceiling, and a weekly review.

https://t.co/dJpwRqWhsX