Case studies

Case studies

Real builds, with the git history to prove the timelines.

Pastoral Research MCP

How one engineer shipped a production MCP server wrapping the SWORD Bible library and 102 patristic texts as 11 LLM-callable tools in 59 days.

Vertical : MCP infrastructure · LLM tooling Stack : TypeScript · NestJS · Postgres · Redis · Neo4j · SWORD (C++) · ONNX Timeline : 59 days · 3 releases · 11 MCP tools
Outchurched

How one developer shipped Outchurched — a publication-grade Astro book site with MDX, three CI gates, and a single-image Docker deploy — in 34 days.

Vertical : Publishing · Editorial-tech · Long-form non-fiction Stack : TypeScript · Astro 5 · MDX · Vitest · Playwright · Docker · Traefik Timeline : 34 days · 3 release tags · 122 merged PRs
ElderAgent

How we took ElderAgent from an empty repository to four production releases in 53 days — single developer, agent-driven workflow, zero reverts.

Vertical : Faith / scholarship SaaS Stack : Angular 21 · NestJS · Postgres · Neo4j · Claude Timeline : 53 days · 4 releases