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Issue 926 October 2026Latest

The first step has a price

The pricing page now opens on the pilot: AU$8,000 for six weeks, the Outlook add-in for the whole organisation, at least five named users, and the fee credited in full against the implementation if you sign within 30 days. Demiton for Outlook went to Microsoft for review on 19 October. The obligation library holds 699 obligations from 126 instruments, up from 447 from 88, and each duty is now checked as it stood on the day the contract was signed. Ask Demiton says what an answer left out.

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days to sign and have the pilot fee credited in full.

Issue 819 October 2026Missed claims

The email starts the clock

A variation's notice window starts on the day of the direction, and the direction usually arrives as an email. Demiton for Outlook records the email on the job and counts the window from the email's own date. It runs in production today, installed by an organisation's admin from a link. This week it heads for Microsoft's store, so anyone can add it from Outlook: the listing is drafted, and four things stand between it and Microsoft's review. Variations typed into Demiton or read from a document now start their windows too, and the library holds 447 obligations.

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taps in Outlook from the email to a running clock.

Issue 712 October 2026Rework

Alerts that reach someone, and 428 obligations

Until last Wednesday, Demiton measured rework, cost drift and disputes on every protected job every hour and told nobody. Now every disease alerts every organisation. Each protected job has its own page, with the contract as Demiton read it and a Confirm beside every term. The obligation library holds 428 obligations from 87 instruments, Ireland, England, Ontario and South Africa among them, added to find where the code still assumes Australia. Apple approved Demiton's developer account, so the iPhone app is coming soon.

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obligations from 87 instruments, up from 252 from 73.

Issue 67 October 2026Missed claims

252 obligations, the requests they raise, and who signs them off

Demiton is live in Claude's connector directory. This update is two days late because Monday was a public holiday in Queensland, and since this release Demiton's deadlines know that too. The obligation library has grown from 135 to 252. When a protection fires it now raises a request that one named person answers, carrying its amount and currency. Who signs off is set on one screen, each claim and delay runs its own clock, and a contractor's Navman data now answers CLOCS-A job by job.

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obligations from 73 instruments, up from 135 from 34.

Issue 528 September 2026Missed claims

Four kinds of protection, what the research says each disease costs, and all 135 obligations

A job's obligations fail in four different shapes, so Demiton protects them four ways: a watch, a countdown, a check and a threshold. This week each one exists, all five diseases run a daily check, and the research behind them is sorted by whose money it measures. Two new public sources back it: research.demiton.io and the demitonapp/registers repository. Below that is every obligation in the library, all 135, with its clause and what missing it costs.

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diseases now run a daily check with a registered action.

Issue 421 September 2026Disputes

Disputes are won in the paperwork, and the paperwork has a deadline

A dispute is usually decided months before anyone argues it, by a notice that went in late or a record nobody kept. This week Demiton learned 125 cited evidence standards across Australia and New Zealand, and started checking every active project against them every morning. Disputes is the second disease with a verdict running every morning. Neither has fired on a live job yet.

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diseases now have an automated verdict running daily. Disputes is the second.

Issue 314 September 2026

The model form: what Florence Nightingale would make of 157 registers

Nightingale's hardest fight was not nursing. It was that hospitals recorded the same facts in different shapes, so preventable disease could not be seen, let alone stopped. Civil construction has that problem today. This week we published all 157 register formats, organised Demiton around the diseases that eat a job's margin, put Demiton for Android live on Google Play, and announced forge.

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A standard record form, repeated, with facts from different construction systems landing in the same columns.

Issue 228 May 2026

Fortnight wrap: Studio becomes the MCP client

Twenty MCP tools became four, and the report tools have since folded into ask_demiton. Three god files got split. A 392-line hotspot that had absorbed 67 commits in 90 days was broken into domain files. And a boolean bypass that lived in six places across the auth stack got replaced with a proper role migration.

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Fortnight wrap: Studio becomes the MCP client

Issue 115 May 2026

Friday wrap: the spine for autonomous clients

Two weeks of work. Claude can now register itself against our MCP server, ask the right question against the right data source, and trust the answer came back through audited adapter calls.

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Friday wrap: the spine for autonomous clients