Long-form posts on the architectural decisions behind Modir. Less marketing, more code.
What we learned about right-to-left writing systems by treating Arabic and Persian as load-bearing locales — not as a "phase 2 retrofit." A look at logical CSS properties, the ICU MessageFormat fault lines, and the pseudo-locale pattern that catches Arabic regressions in pseudo before they ship.
· 14 min read · Modir platform team
The full design of Modir's hash-chained audit: SHA-256 per tenant, append-only triggers, hourly Temporal verification, content-addressed evidence. Why we chose canonical JSON over CBOR, why partitioning matters, and how we keep the chain valid when GDPR erasure happens.
· 16 min read · Modir platform team
How we let AI suggest mutations to regulated state without ever letting AI execute them. The approval workflow, the "approval-as-identity" trick, the OPA ai_actions policy package, and what we learned shipping the first three governed-AI use cases into production tenants.
· 18 min read · Modir platform team
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