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Why x70 Has Two Portals

The x70 client portal and staff Admin share one business lifecycle, but separating their interfaces and authority made the agency system simpler and safer to operate.

Week of published 4 min read
Engineering
Architecture

Public Sites and Private Portals Need Opposite Crawler Policies

Applying one SEO checklist to every x70 property would have been wrong: public product pages should be discoverable, while authenticated operational surfaces should make their non-public status explicit.

Week of published 3 min read
Engineering
Architecture

Why the x70 App Collapsed Onto One Realtime Data Boundary

Moving authentication and application state onto Convex reduced the number of persistence systems in the x70 App, but the real lesson was to migrate boundaries and call sites—not just schemas.

Week of published 4 min read
Engineering
Architecture

One Brand CDN, Many Independent Sites

Centralizing x70’s identity assets removed a quiet source of drift across the ecosystem, while leaving each product free to keep its own layout, copy, and release cycle.

Week of published 3 min read
Design
Architecture

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2026

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Why This Portfolio’s Content Lives With the Code

Moving the portfolio’s editorial content out of a hosted CMS made publishing less magical, but it also made every public claim reviewable, versioned, and easier to keep in sync with the product.

Week of published 4 min read
Engineering
Architecture

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