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The Missing Layer

Introducing Introspective Context Engineering — a method for building Rich Domain MCP Servers where the AI doesn't just query your data, it understands what it means. Based on multiple MCP servers running on real production business data.

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MCPAIArchitectureCost

Enterprise AI Without an Enterprise Budget

Nine production MCP servers, no platform team, no framework dependencies, no API bill. The architecture that puts enterprise AI inside a mid-market budget.

2026-05-2411 min read
MCPAIArchitecture

MCP Is the AI Platform

Nine production MCP servers, one mid-sized firm. No agent framework, no RAG pipeline, no AI-platform vendor. MCP plus enterprise identity is the whole stack.

2026-05-239 min read
MCPArchitecture

Six Things the MCP Spec Should Fix

Six fixes the MCP spec needs after 52 tools and nine APIs in production: from Resources no client surfaces to enums that break agent reasoning.

2026-04-245 min read
MCPArchitecture

Your MCP Server Should Get Smarter Every Week

Three calls to the same tool with tightening filters. Without queryIntent: opaque retries. With it: the exact metadata gap, fixable in minutes.

2026-04-174 min read
MCPMetadata

97% of MCP Tool Descriptions Are Broken

856 tools, 103 servers, 97.1% with at least one smell. After shipping 52 tools across 7 production MCP servers, here's the eight-block pattern that fixed ours.

2026-04-104 min read
MCPArchitectureAI

The Six Levels of MCP Servers

Seven production MCP servers, nine APIs, 52 tools later: a six-level maturity ladder from hollow API wrappers to apps that write back. Where does yours sit?

2026-04-034 min read
AIEnterprise

Your Data Is Fine. Your AI Doesn't Know What It Means.

Enterprise AI pilots fail 80% of the time. Surveys blame data quality. After seven production MCP servers, the real problem was almost never the data.

2026-03-274 min read
MCPAIArchitectureProduction

Production MCP: A Practitioner's Guide

Nine production MCP servers at one mid-market firm. The complete framework: from understanding data through identity-bound deployment, end to end.

2026-03-269 min read

David Golverdingen

AI Engineering & Technical Leadership

Based in the Netherlands

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Posts here are drafted with Claude and validated by the author against production experience.