May 19, 2026 · Kin Lane

Capability-First Context Engineering: Design for MCP, Then Wire the APIs

Most teams building AI integrations start with whatever API they already have, then bolt MCP on top. Capability-first design flips that. You descri...

May 19, 2026 · Kin Lane

Apify Engineered Its MCP Context Window. Naftiko Engineers the Fleet.

Apify shipped an MCP Configurator that lets consumers cherry-pick 10-15 Actors out of 25,000 — context engineering at the vendor surface, done righ...

May 18, 2026 · Kin Lane

Notion Has an MCP. Naftiko Has a Capability Layer.

Notion shipped a hosted MCP, a documented tool catalog, and an open-source self-host option. That covers most use cases. When it doesn't, you reach...

May 16, 2026 · Kin Lane

Naftiko Is an Agentic Asset Manager

Every enterprise has been quietly running an asset manager for its software stack for decades — the IT team that knows what is licensed, what is re...

May 15, 2026 · Kin Lane

Engagement Beats Impressions — The Playbook Has Changed

Every startup playbook for the last twenty years had the same instruction at the top: if it does not scale, do not do it. That instruction is wrong...

May 14, 2026 · Kin Lane

The Bridge From Signals to Action Is the Hardest Part

Every operator who looks at Naftiko Signals has the same reaction in two beats. First beat: wow, this is impressive. Second beat: what do I do with...

May 14, 2026 · Kin Lane

Rightsize a Monolith API: Extract What Consumers Actually Need

Most monolith APIs I walk into have hundreds of operations. Most consumers of those APIs actually need five. That gap — between what the API offers...

May 13, 2026 · Kin Lane

Governance Is the Engine, Not the Brake

Every governance conversation in the agent era gets framed as a trade-off between speed and safety. That framing is wrong. Governance is not the br...

May 13, 2026 · Kin Lane

APIDays NYC 2026: The AI Conversation Is Getting Grounded

I am at APIDays NYC for the second year in a row. The conference is still very much about AI and agents — that is the center of gravity and probabl...

May 12, 2026 · Kin Lane

Two APIDays NYC Talks, One Thesis: Governance Belongs at the Consumption Layer

I am giving two talks at APIDays NYC this week. They look like two different topics — API governance on day one, OpenAPI examples and tags on day t...

May 12, 2026 · Kin Lane

One Capability Layer Over Twenty Microservices

The microservice refactor worked. Each service is small, focused, and independently deployable. The client doesn't care. The client is over there j...

May 12, 2026 · Kin Lane

AI Is the First X-Ray Into How Your Stack Actually Works

For thirty years the corporate IT walled garden tended the stack so the business user did not have to. AI is the first technology to put the busine...