The Cost Sheet Problem Nobody Talks About
A cost sheet is more than a budget document. It is the financial blueprint of an engagement — capturing manpower rates, vendor costs, planned invoices, outgoing payments, and deliverables, all in one place. It's the heart of the project. When it's accurate and up to date, it tells you whether the project is financially healthy.…
Clive Can Now Modify Itself
We've been building clive — a CLI Live Environment that gives an LLM a terminal and a keyboard. The core idea is simple: instead of wrapping tools in APIs and schemas, you let the agent read the screen and type. The terminal becomes the interface. The loop becomes the protocol. We've added something that takes…
The Terminal as Agent Interface: Introducing clive
There is a quiet assumption embedded in most agent infrastructure: that agents need structured interfaces. APIs, schemas, tool definitions, protocols like MCP or A2A. The assumption is that the gap between an LLM and a system needs to be bridged by something machine-readable. clive starts from a different assumption. LLMs are excellent at reading text…
