Notes from the team building Ekso.
Operations, AI, and the long migration off legacy tools.
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- 5 June 2026
Architecture is the assurance: the SaaS-vs-self-host compliance decision in 2026
Where data lives is a foundational compliance question, but architecture, integrations, contracts, controls, and operations must be assessed together.
Read post - 2 June 2026
The time MCP tool: where an agent can log time, and where it can't
Five calls split on a sharp financial boundary. Agents can see all time logged — billable and non-billable — and they can log their own internal effort, but they cannot touch anything that affects a customer invoice.
Read post - 29 May 2026
Project profitability as a prompt
The weekly margin check your services firm needs but never finds time to run — written as a single sentence against the finance MCP surface.
Read post - 26 May 2026
The finance MCP tool: vocabulary first, then the question
Twelve read-only calls. Six teach the agent your finance vocabulary; six let it ask questions of the books. Zero touch the books themselves.
Read post - 22 May 2026
Tickets, tasks, cases, issues — one workflow engine underneath
Four nouns. One primitive. The SaaS market fragmented work-tracking into incompatible boxes — and the cost of that fragmentation is now load-bearing because agents reason about state, not the noun on the label.
Read post - 19 May 2026
The rule MCP tool: two calls, one principle
Agents read rules. Agents attach webhooks to rules. Agents do not author rules. The shape of the rule MCP tool is the shape of that contract.
Read post - 15 May 2026
Migrate from Linear to Ekso in a weekend
Two commands. Projects become containers, issues become items, cycles stay cycles. What carries, what doesn't, and the parts the docs don't cover.
Read post - 8 May 2026
Rules are an agent's best friend
Why deterministic rules and non-deterministic agents are complementary, not competing — and how that shapes the way we ship MCP tools.
Read post - 1 May 2026
The Jira Data Center deadline is 2029. The decision is now.
Why the smart move on Atlassian's DC sunset is to leave on your timeline, not theirs.
Read post - 24 April 2026
Agents want more than an API. We just shipped the rest.
The Ekso CLI and SDK are live. Every public operation, four surfaces, one source — and a deliberate rule about what scripts get to touch.
Read post - 10 April 2026
Operations is going AI-native. Most tools aren't.
Why we built Ekso headless-first — and what it changes about how ops gets done.
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