Playbooks

The Production Readiness Series: free NUEXUS engineering playbooks

The engineering playbooks between a working demo and a product you can safely put in front of customers.

AI can generate the code. It will not tell you what is missing. Each edition is an original NUEXUS field guide on one layer of getting software production-ready: security, reliability, compliance, AI, architecture and growth. Free to download.

Playbook Edition 01

The Production Readiness Playbook

What AI will not build for you.

The overview to the whole series: the layers between a working demo and a product you can safely put in front of customers, and the ones AI will never build for you.

Inside this edition

The production stack, layer by layer

What AI will not build for you

Where each edition in the series fits

How to run the series as a checklist

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The series

Every edition, in order

One layer of production readiness per edition. Read them in sequence or take only the layer you are missing.

02PlaybookEdition 0214-page PDF

The Security Layer

Multi-tenant isolation, secrets, tokens, input validation and the supply chain. The controls an attacker checks first, and most fast-built apps skip.

IsolationSecretsTokensSupply chain

03PlaybookEdition 0310-page PDF

Building With AI, Safely

Output validation, agent memory, orchestration, cost control and evaluation. How to ship an AI feature that behaves, instead of a demo that occasionally lies.

ValidationAgentsCostEvals

04PlaybookEdition 049-page PDF

The Compliance Playbook

Cyber liability, data mapping, consent, deletion, SOC 2 and shadow-AI governance. The paperwork and controls a customer, a regulator or a lawyer will ask about.

LiabilityPrivacySOC 2Governance

05PlaybookEdition 0510-page PDF

Reliability & Operations

Observability, service-level objectives, caching, backups, safe deploys and queues. The difference between a 3 a.m. page and a quiet night.

ObservabilitySLOsBackupsDeploys

06PlaybookEdition 069-page PDF

Choosing Your Stack

Database, ORM, vectors, auth and platform, chosen by workload and business stage instead of hype. The decisions that are cheap now and expensive to reverse later.

DatabaseAuthPlatformAPI-first

07PlaybookEdition 079-page PDF

AI for Business

Readiness before tools, data before models, adoption before mandates, and ROI you can actually prove. How to deploy AI in a real company without wasting a year.

ReadinessDataAdoptionROI

08PlaybookEdition 089-page PDF

Building an AI Product Company

Anyone can generate code now. The advantage is knowing what to build, how to architect it for machines, and how to run a company where AI does the work and you make the calls.

StrategyAI-nativeOperating modelFleet

09PlaybookEdition 098-page PDF

Ship & Grow

The first forty-eight hours that keep a user, a price that scales with value, and the hundred boring things that separate a demo from a product.

ActivationPricingCraftRetention

10Special EditionSpecial Edition9-page PDFCapstone

The 100-Point Audit

Every control from the series in one hundred-point self-assessment across six pillars. Run it against your product before your first hundred customers, or your first attacker, runs it for you.

SecurityAIReliabilityCompliance

10 editions · free · updated as the series grows.

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