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At Conrad Research, we're an architect-led research boutique crafting the autocomplete for architecture. Our first stepping stones toward that vision, Title Sheet and Burvo, are in the works, and we can’t wait to share them with you when they’re ready!

— Austen Conrad, Founder

In the works

Title Sheet logo.

Title Sheet is the central hub for every image, drawing, and document that defines your project from concept through construction closeout.

Burvo logo.

Remote collaboration slowing down your creative process? As architects ourselves, we feel the same slowdown caused by remote work as you do. That's why we're crafting the next generation of collaborative design tools for creative professionals.

What we've learned
Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD

Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD

FreeBSD’s native support for ZFS snapshots and jails provides a powerful foundation for immutable deployments. By creating a new jail from a ZFS snapshot for every release, we get instant roll‑backs, zero‑downtime upgrades, and a clean, reproducible environment. This article walks through the (very opinionated) flow that we use. From jails setup through running Caddy as a health‑checked reverse proxy in front of the jails.

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Temporal Dev Server on FreeBSD

Temporal Dev Server on FreeBSD

At Conrad Research we LOVE Temporal. It gives us a high velocity in development because our code doesn't have to worry as much about implementing retry logic. We are in the process of moving to a self-hosted Temporal server and as such we're starting with the baby step of setting up a Temporal CLI dev server to run on our FeeBSD deployment platform.

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Building Turso Golang Client on FreeBSD
Zed + Groq = Insanely Fast Coding Assistance

Zed + Groq = Insanely Fast Coding Assistance

Sometimes in life you stumble upon unexpected joy :) For me, it was recently Zed. After a couple of weeks, I was completely sold on Zed as my new IDE. Then one morning I was thinking about how insanely fast Groq’s inference is and it dawned on me: what if I could use Groq as my inference backend in Zed?

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Installing Infisical on FreeBSD
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