Notes on owning your AI infrastructure

Practical guides on self-hosted LLM platforms, multi-model routing, guardrails, and team budgets.

ai costs

Claude Enterprise pricing: what you actually pay

Claude Team runs $20–25 per seat and caps at 150 seats. Enterprise adds a negotiated seat price plus usage at API rates. Full math, checked August 2026.

governance

Shadow AI: what it is and how to detect it

Shadow AI is AI use without IT oversight. What it looks like in practice, what it costs when it goes wrong, and six practical detection signals.

claude code

Claude Code for enterprise: pricing, plans and governance

How Claude Code is licensed (seats vs API billing), what it costs per developer, the governance controls Anthropic ships, and where a gateway fits.

ai costs

ChatGPT Enterprise pricing: the full breakdown

OpenAI doesn't publish ChatGPT Enterprise pricing. Reported 2026 deals: $50–60 per seat, 150-seat minimum, annual term. The math to run before signing.

governance

The company brain: own the history it will be built from

What a company brain is, why tribal knowledge is the bottleneck, and why your LLM interaction history is the asset it will be built from.

gateways

What is an LLM gateway?

Direct calls work — until a second team, provider, or coding agents arrive. What an LLM gateway does, what breaks without one, and when to add it.

product

Why we built SecondStack

SaaS assistants store your data and bill per seat; DIY open-source stacks go unsupported. Why we built a self-hosted AI platform and ran it on ourselves first.