Stratir Research Notes
Notes on tradecraft, systems, and field execution.
Essays from an all-source intelligence research lab on tradecraft, systems, agentic execution, and releasing tools that survive operational review.
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Studio thesis, operations, applied AI
Forward Deployed: Software's New Doctrine
How mission command and Palantir's Forward Deployed Engineers rewrote software delivery, and why Stratir is embedding in Madagascar, Kenya, and regions the industry ignores.
June 30, 2026 / Vance Poitier / 18 min read
02
Data, agents, intelligence systems
Going Beyond OSINT
Why the next leap is not more manual searching, but source-backed data aggregation, NLP, graph structure, and agentic workflows built for review at scale.
June 13, 2026 / Vance Poitier / 11 min read
03
Design, agents, execution
How to Ship Software With Taste in the Agentic Era
A guide to avoiding AI slop, building product surfaces with taste, and using agents without giving up brand, craft, or client value.
June 9, 2026 / Vance Poitier / 12 min read