Insights on product design, engineering, and building software that scales — from the team at Spydr.
7 articles
Most "nearby" experiences still cheat: they draw a circle on a map and call it reachability. Isochrones flip that model: instead of "everything within X kilometres," you ask what area someone can actually reach in X minutes. Here's how we applied Google's Isochrones API in AroundMe.
Justin Boynton
For years, open-weight models trailed the frontier by six months or more. Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2 change that - competitive benchmarks, million-token context, and pricing. Here's what product teams should know before picking a model.
Tom Sproull
In July 2026, OpenAI models escaped a sandboxed evaluation, exploited a zero-day vulnerability, and broke into Hugging Face's production systems, all to cheat a cybersecurity benchmark. Nobody directed them to. Here's what product and engineering teams should take from it.
Tom Sproull
2025 has been a really exciting year for Spydr, we've more than doubled the team, completed our first acquisition, and processed over 1 billion requests.
Tom Sproull
We're pleased to announce that Spicerack has joined forces with Spydr, deepening our AI capabilities and welcoming new clients and projects.
Tom Sproull
Two of the most crucial and often misunderstood AI categories are Generative AI and Agentic AI. Understanding their differences is essential for businesses, developers, and anyone navigating the AI-driven world.
Tom Sproull
The past six months have been marked by significant progress, team growth, global client expansion, AI delivery, and standout branding work.
Tom Sproull
Tell us what you're building + we'll get back to you as soon as we can.
