Craft & Logic
A product and engineering company for organizations that need senior technical leadership and the team to execute behind it.
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Technologist · Founder · Systems Architect
I build software, companies, and systems that survive contact with reality.
Nearly three decades turning ambitious ideas into technology that can actually be built, operated, and sustained.
About
I’ve been doing this long enough to know that code is rarely the whole problem.
I’m Enrique Gutierrez, a software architect, technical strategist, and founder of Craft & Logic. I’ve worked in the web industry since 1998, building products, recovering difficult projects, advising founders, and helping teams turn ambitious ideas into systems that can survive contact with reality.
These days, I spend most of my time somewhere between technology, product strategy, business constraints, and the decisions nobody realized they needed to make.
More about meBuilding for the web since 1998Founder of Craft & LogicCTO and technical operatorProduct, systems, AI, and infrastructure
The work beneath the work
Most software problems are not purely software problems.
They are failures of assumptions, ownership, priorities, incentives, or execution. My work is figuring out which problem is real, then building the system that addresses it.
How I got hereWhat I do
Operate where business ambition meets technical reality.
01Technical Strategy and Architecture
Translating product and business goals into systems that can be built, maintained, and scaled.
02Product and Engineering Leadership
Giving teams enough structure to ship without burying them in process theater.
03Applied AI and Automation
Using AI where it improves capability, speed, analysis, or leverage—without pretending a model replaces judgment.
04Difficult Project Recovery
Finding the real failure points in inherited systems, stalled products, unclear roadmaps, and expensive assumptions.
Businesses
Companies built around hard, durable problems.
Haruspex
Applied forecasting, market intelligence, and automated trading systems built around the belief that uncertainty can be modeled, tested, and managed.
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Notes from inside the machinery.
Desktop AI Changed the Security Boundary
Desktop AI agents are no longer just chat interfaces. They can read files, inspect repositories, execute commands, use browsers, and act inside the same environments where companies keep source code, credentials, and client intellectual property. That changes the security model considerably.
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Scylla: Give the Agent Capabilities, Not Your Workstation
Scylla started as an attempt to restrict what AI desktop applications could access. It became a local-first development workbench built around explicit project scope, brokered credentials, controlled execution, external knowledge, MCP services, remote connections, and durable project memory.
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When General-Purpose Software Becomes the Problem
General-purpose tools become expensive when their unused flexibility creates more operational work than the narrow problem they solve. Agentic workflows make purpose-built alternatives increasingly practical.
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Technology is full of people selling inevitability. I am more interested in what survives implementation.
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