https://sophoninc.com/blog Notes from Sophon LLC on office agents, the products their work lands in, and how the company runs. en Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sophoninc.com/blog/local-by-default-cloud-as-fallback https://sophoninc.com/blog/local-by-default-cloud-as-fallback Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Cue's dictation polish step was designed cloud-first with a local fallback. A 227-sample benchmark reversed that. What the case study records about the decision. https://sophoninc.com/blog/deepmind-case-study-what-it-says https://sophoninc.com/blog/deepmind-case-study-what-it-says Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Google DeepMind published a case study on Cue in 2026: what it measured, what runs where, how we quote it, and the claims it does not support. https://sophoninc.com/blog/counting-installs https://sophoninc.com/blog/counting-installs Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Google Play publishes install ranges, the App Store publishes none, and estimators publish figures nobody can check. How the home page numbers are built from that. https://sophoninc.com/blog/benchmark-landscape-not-a-leaderboard https://sophoninc.com/blog/benchmark-landscape-not-a-leaderboard Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Thirteen public benchmarks, one row each, with capability coverage and licences from first-party sources. What the dataset answers and what it refuses to.