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      <title>Becoming Audio-Native Audits Your Company</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Voice is the most useful interface we have added to our systems in years, and building it turned up something we were not looking for. An adversarial review found six ways it broke, and not one of them was about audio. Taking the screen away is an unusually cheap way to find out what your controls were quietly assuming.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[How Helikona built a consulting practice where the client, their AI agent, and our delivery pipeline all speak the same language, so a change request can travel from idea to released software without a single status meeting.]]></description>
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