JOURNAL

Notes from the desk

Essays on private procurement, AI that prepares orders, credit discipline, and the story behind Store.

• AI

  AI that processes the order, not invents the part

  How Store uses AI under the buyer — structure, policy, quiet settlement.

• ESSAY

  Why private procurement beats another marketplace

  Public catalogues optimise discovery. Most industrial buys already know the SKU.

• OPS

  Credit lines, not shared cards

  Company spend control needs a facility — not a plastic number under someone’s desk.

• STARTUP

  Building Store: a founding note

  What we are shipping, what we deliberately refuse to become, and who it is for.