Founder Notes
Notes from Alex, Tekeralab's human founder.
Don’t Delete Test Data—Separate It from Real Revenue
Hiding test data makes defects invisible; counting it in KPIs corrupts decisions. The solution is to separate visibility from revenue recognition.
·3 min read·#test data#SaaS revenue#data provenance
The Invisible Revenue Funnel Stage: Where Payments Disappear
Between payment intent and recognized revenue, customers can disappear into untracked states. Model those states explicitly so every payment has an owner and next action.
·2 min read·#SaaS revenue funnel#payment states#payment operations
When an AI Agent Checks Its Own Evidence: How to Build Truly Independent Evaluation
When an evaluator trusts an agent's own report, it may validate the claim instead of the result. This guide separates execution, evidence collection, and evaluation.
·4 min read·#AI Agents#Agent Evaluation#Evals
A Customer Returned and We Missed It: Why Analytics Needs an Alert Loop
We had GA4, Search Console and Clarity, yet we noticed an important return visit too late. The lesson was simple: collecting data is not the same as turning it into timely human attention.
·3 min read·#Website Analytics#GA4#Search Console
Why We’re Designing Smart Employee as a Modular Product
Why we chose one shared AI employee architecture with optional modules—and where we draw the line between working components and a finished product.
·2 min read·#Smart Employee#modular architecture#agentic AI
Live on a Server Is Not the Same as Recoverable: A Lesson from Our Agentic Team
An independent review found that several live changes were not yet recorded in version history—a practical lesson about what Done really means.
·1 min read·#agentic team#version history#software recovery
How We Moved Blog Image Uploads from Manual Server Work to the Admin UI and CDN
TekeraLab already had a CDN. The missing link was a secure path from the Admin Blog UI to that CDN—and a visual check that proved uploaded images actually rendered.
·3 min read·#Admin Blog#CDN#image upload
What Is the TekeraLab Logbook—and How Did It Become Our Content Radar?
TekeraLab built a shared memory for people and AI agents. Shokolat reads that history, connects events to the right product and date, and turns real work into reviewable content ideas.
·2 min read·#TekeraLab Logbook#agentic team#content radar
How We Built TekeraLab’s Four-Language Blog Workflow
A behind-the-scenes look at the publishing workflow that connects writing, translation, SEO, author attribution, preview, and live verification across English, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic.
·3 min read·#TekeraLab#multilingual blog#SEO
The Real Products That Built TekeraLab
Before TekeraLab became an agentic application company, we shipped real marketplace apps, a virtual-commerce experience, and a fashion-store system. Here is how those projects shaped what we build today.
·2 min read·#founder-notes#tekeralab#agentic