What I said then, what building taught, what changed.
In 2025 Lee Grainger published a record of what BeMo would be. Each edition takes one of those claims, checks it against what building BeMo and running the beta actually taught, and says plainly what changed. Full technical depth, most Wednesdays.
By Lee Grainger, co-founder of BeMo. Also available as an RSS feed. The 2025 record each edition checks is Lee’s Substack series, From Problem to Platform.
- Edition 12
6 min readContext Doesn't Travel
A year ago I wrote that AI had finally solved a problem the web gave up on in 2001. Four companies spent September proving I was half right.
- Edition 11
7 min readSomebody to Argue With
Last July I promised a team of experts. A year of building with the smallest possible team taught me which part of a colleague a machine can actually be.
- Edition 10
7 min readThe Easy Half
Last October I wrote that the way we work with software was about to change: no more menus, just say what you want. This month two of the biggest CRM vendors said the same thing from their own stages. It was the easy half.
- Edition 9
4 min readThe Other Way Around
Last October I wrote that BeMo's apps adapt to the organization, not the other way around. We built it the other way around.
- Edition 8
5 min readThe Walled Garden
A review of what I wrote last October about cross-app threading.
- Edition 7
5 min readShow the Rest
A review of what I wrote last August about automation.
- Edition 6
7 min readFive Percent of the Job
A review of what I wrote last October about the Knowledge Base.
- Edition 5
5 min readOne Memory, Many Doors
A review of what I wrote last August about modularity.
- Edition 4
5 min readStructure at Two Scales
A review of what I wrote last October about semantic AI.
- Edition 3
5 min readThe Team of One
A review of what I wrote last October about collaboration.
- Edition 2
4 min readThe Foundation, Not the Product
A review of what I wrote in October about organizational memory.
- Edition 1
1 min readTasks Don't Add Up Into Strategy on Their Own
Activity scales. Progress doesn't. The connective questions are the missing layer.
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