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Simon Woodhead

USA pricing review / e911

e911 is now available in the API/portal and we're updating our USA prices to reflect it and other commercial changes in the US market.

You buy from who!?

Partnering beats building everything yourself. That leaves the question of who. Two tests: do they have what you need already built, and does their g…

A million scam calls a month never happen

Regular readers will know we take spam and scam calls, aka nuisance calls, very seriously. Every one is potentially a granny robbed of her life savin…

AI is an extinction-level event.

AI is an extinction-level event. Just not for the people you think.

The Slough incident that nearly was

At 14:27 on July 13th 2026 a host in Slough died the way hardware does: no warning, no way back. For once, the architecture built to shrug this off d…

Internal documentation that actually gets used: ADRs, MCP servers, and AI-accessible knowledge

Part 12 of 12 – Conversation Intelligence Platform series Back to Part 1 There’s a category of engineering problem that doesn’t show up in postmortem…

Documentation as a first-class product: narrative guides, live OpenAPI, and Scalar

Part 11 of 12 – Conversation Intelligence Platform series Back to Part 1 Most API documentation in telecoms is a reference dump. A list of endpoints.…

Deprecation as a feature: how we migrate a 200-endpoint API without breaking customers

Part 10 of 12 – Conversation Intelligence Platform series Back to Part 1 “We’re retiring this endpoint” is a statement that has earned its bad reputa…

Authentication done right: API keys, OIDC, and the end of Basic Auth

Part 9 of 12 – Conversation Intelligence Platform series Back to Part 1 Authentication is one of those things where the gap between “works” and “done…

A new API architecture: independent services, one gateway, zero coupling

Part 8 of 12 – Conversation Intelligence Platform series Back to Part 1 The Conversation Intelligence platform didn’t get built on top of our existin…

Conversation Memory and vCon: the intelligence that compounds over time

Part 7 of 12 – Conversation Intelligence Platform series Back to Part 1 Per-call analysis is useful. Intelligence that compounds across calls is tran…

Operators: turning a call into structured signals your systems can act on

Part 6 of 12 – Conversation Intelligence Platform series Back to Part 1 The media tap described in Part 5 gives you the audio. Transcription gives yo…

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