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We replaced a WhatsApp group with software. The group was doing more than anyone realised.

Placeholder. Replace before this site goes live — see .docs/decisions.md, D-014.

The brief was simple: the business dispatches trade jobs over WhatsApp, and it should be an application instead. The brief was also wrong, in the way most briefs are — the mess contained rules nobody had written down.

What this piece will cover

  • Why the “chaotic” process was doing useful work
  • Reconstructing implicit rules from a message history
  • Which rules to encode, and which to deliberately leave to a human
  • What we got wrong on the first pass

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