About this site
This site is the companion to the paper SaaS architecture when code is cheap. It hosts an explainer video and a page for each section of the paper. The site is generated from the paper each time it is built, so it always shows the current text.
Status. The paper is a draft, September 2026. Its claims are bounded by its sources, and the section pages carry every citation.
How the video was made
The animation is drawn in code and animated with GSAP. The same scenes play live on this site, so you can pause and click the diagrams, and are rendered frame by frame in a browser to produce the downloadable video.
The narration is AI-generated with a synthetic voice (MiniMax Speech-02 HD, through fal.ai), read from the approved script. Counts of tenants shown in the video are illustrative; every other figure comes from the paper, with its source.
Related
Semantic engineering governs change below the multi-tenancy line: semantic-engineering.ai. Dialect engineering, the subject of this site, governs each customer's language above it.
The earlier papers in this programme
These are not published on this site.
| Document | Question it answers |
|---|---|
| The Domain-Specific Language as a Software Interface | Why a domain language is the right interface for AI to operate software, and what the evidence for and against says |
| Onboarding as the first surface | Why customer onboarding is the commercial wedge, worked through a payroll account |
| Building a domain language for one feature | How a grammar is derived from one existing feature, end to end, including what the grammar replaces |
| This paper | Which layer of a SaaS product should be shared, what moves when that changes, and in what order the work goes |