Mac utilityLive
CrateWin
Create Microsoft Intune .intunewin packages on your Mac, without keeping a Windows VM around just for packaging.
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Practical software for the awkward bits.
Small, careful tools for people who would rather solve the job properly than wrestle the same awkward workflow again next week.
Project list
Two things you can look at right now.
CrateWin is available to buy now. Dex is public as a companion-app experiment. Anything still being shaped stays off the page until it is ready for daylight.
Companion appLab
Dex
A careful companion-app experiment for lookup, maps, planning, and source-aware detail.
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Where Hastie & Co tends to help.
Workflow tools that remove awkward repeat work
Hastie & Co builds small, careful software around the jobs that keep turning into spreadsheets, manual checks, and fragile workarounds.
Direct-selling software and support paths
From product pages to Stripe checkout, licensing, legal links, release evidence, and support routes, Hastie & Co turns a useful build into something people can actually buy and trust.
AI governance and evidence systems
Hastie & Co is especially interested in the practical layer of AI governance: inventories, ownership, review trails, policy starter packs, and evidence people can use.
Launch-readiness reviews that become build work
Some work starts as a review of claims, privacy posture, support promises, checkout readiness, or user journeys, then becomes the focused fixes needed to make the project credible.
Point of trust
Playful at the edges. Precise where it matters.
Public pages say what is real now, how to get help, and where the edges are. No vague AI fog, no pretending unfinished things are finished.
Get supportThoughts
Ruairidh's writing with a practical edge.
Security, AI governance, and software-delivery notes now live under About, where the archive is clearly Ruairidh's writing rather than a separate studio product lane.
Every company has a shadow AI problem. Most leaders can't see it yet.
A practical argument for treating AI adoption like earlier waves of shadow IT: visible enough to help, structured enough to govern, and honest enough to find the risk before it becomes folklore.
How we ACTUALLY decide whether an AI tool is safe to use
A clear look at how AI tooling decisions move beyond demos into exposure, data handling, auditability, and the uncomfortable questions teams need to answer before rollout.
From Chaos to Compliance: An Unexpected Journey with ISO, SOC, and AI Tools
A field note on moving from messy reality into a structured security programme, where compliance becomes useful because it makes trust visible every day.
The lab stays open
Visit the labRoom for experiments without confusing the careful pages.
Hastie & Co is the studio home. Scot n Nerdy stays available as the social, broadcast, and creative label, so lighter work has somewhere honest to live without confusing the commercial pages.