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Recherches inédites, notes de méthode et notes techniques issues de la construction de Kabaido. Chaque chiffre porte son degré de confiance.
Industrial buyers are starting to ask assistants, not search boxes. What that changes for a supplier's website, what it does not, and what we did to ours.
Lire l’articleUne estimation inédite d’une population active qu’aucun code métier ne recense, avec un degré de confiance sur chaque chiffre.
The UK posts about 900 new application engineer adverts a month against a 27,200 base. What continuous re-hiring of a hard-to-define role really signals.
Lire l’articleUK application engineer pay barely varies by domain, so headcount is the whole map. Three domains hold 41.7% of it. A tour of a top-heavy market.
Lire l’articleAround 27,200 people in the UK do a job that official statistics cannot find. Here is what happens when a role spreads across sixteen occupation codes.
Lire l’articleCe que contient vraiment la journée d’un ingénieur d’application, et là où les commandes se bloquent.
A machine knife order is three dimensions, a steel, a hardness and an edge. Most enquiries carry four of the six. Here is the full specification.
Lire l’articleAn RFQ looks like a document. It is closer to a scattered set of claims, each hiding somewhere else. How engineers read one, and how software should.
Lire l’articleAn application engineer's week holds fifteen different jobs. Follow the orders instead of the diary and it collapses to five, all of them specification.
Lire l’articleComment nous mesurons ce que personne ne compte, et les règles qui gardent les chiffres honnêtes.
A bandsaw catalogue runs to hundreds of variants. The choice comes down to three questions and one rule about teeth. Here is the published maths.
Lire l’articleNo occupation code, no analyst report, no number to borrow. How we sized the UK application engineer market by triangulation, and kept it honest.
Lire l’articleDes décisions prises en construisant Kabaido, de l’ancrage d’un modèle au comptage en pence.
A clean plasma part and an evening of grinding dross differ by three numbers per material and thickness. Where they come from and why they drift.
Lire l’articleA metre of balustrade looks like a price per metre. It is a structure with a load case, and the load case moves the price. The working, in order.
Lire l’articleA soft jaw enquiry looks like two words and a chuck size. The serration, the jaw envelope and the material are all implied. How a seller reads one.
Lire l’articleA general AI model knows what a milling cutter is. It does not know your milling cutter. What it takes to ground a model in a real industrial domain.
Lire l’articleBinary floating point cannot hold a tidy decimal exactly. Charming in a tutorial, less so on a 4,000-line quote. A short defence of integer money.
Lire l’articleKabaido transforme les demandes de prix, les bons de commande et les demandes de prestation en réponses structurées, chiffrées, sources à l’appui. Testez-le avec un cas réel.