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An event-driven order saga: an Angular front end and five .NET services — Order, Inventory, Payment, Fulfillment, Notification — with a compensation path on every failure

July 15, 2026

The Work Shifted Left, Not Away: Building an Event-Driven Order Saga With SCRUB, Solo

by Robert Felkins · 12 min read

I stood up five .NET services and a compensating order saga solo, in six weeks, most of it not spent typing. The tempting read is that AI replaced the team — but having just done it, I'm here to tell you the work shifted left, not away.

PlannerPro board showing one team's work across three projects in a single view

July 8, 2026

SCRUB Framework

One Team, Three Projects, One Board: Building PlannerPro With Layered SCRUB

by Robert Felkins · 15 min read

Every project management tool assumes a project has a team. This client had it backward — one team carrying three projects, and a senior developer with nine items in progress that no tool could see. So I built the board that could, using layered SCRUB prompts.

BrandForge: an Angular component built from a layered SCRUB prompt document

June 4, 2026

SCRUB Framework

The Prompt Is the Plan: How I Built a 1,200-Line Angular Component With a Framework You've Never Heard Of

by Robert Felkins · 26 min read

The AI does something genuinely terrifying: it writes code that runs fine, ships, and is quietly wrong. So I stopped typing instructions at it and started engineering them — and built a 1,200-line Angular component from a prompt document written before a single line of TypeScript.

Recognize any of this in your own stack?

That's usually where an engagement starts — a system that outgrew its assumptions, and a team that needs senior judgment without a full-time hire.

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