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Research, engineering deep dives, and technical writing from the Scouq team.
May 20, 2026
voice-ai12 min readA clear-eyed comparison of custom-built voice AI against off-the-shelf platforms. Real cost numbers, when each makes sense, and how to avoid the no-code trap that wastes your first 6 months.
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voice-ai11 min readThe real cost of missing calls, what voice AI receptionists actually do in 2026, and a clear framework for deciding whether custom voice AI fits your business.
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meta2 min readWhat the Scouq Library is, how it's organized, and what you'll find here.
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voice-ai3 min readHow AI phone agents handle inbound calls for HVAC businesses — what works, what breaks, and what it actually costs to deploy one.
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infra3 min readA practical comparison of ClickHouse and TimescaleDB for time-series analytics on email send data — what we chose and why.
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design6 min readHow we replaced a colorful, teal-and-blue dashboard UI with a strict black-and-white chrome design system. The design principles, Tailwind token strategy, and why it made the product better.
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cold-email7 min readHow we built a cold email infrastructure on Google Workspace with 90 dedicated inboxes, Smartlead warmup, and a per-send personalization pipeline. The setup, the numbers, and the rules that kept us out of spam.
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nextjs7 min readHow we built a production Cmd+K command palette in Next.js using cmdk. Search across 56,000+ symbols with sub-50ms response, keyboard navigation, and zero layout shift.
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clickhouse10 min readHow Scouq scaled from 400M rows on QuestDB to 2.5 billion rows on ClickHouse. Real lessons on compression, async inserts, ReplacingMergeTree dedup, and partition management from a production financial data system.
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building-in-public7 min readFrom zero to 2.5 billion data points in 90 days. The real story of building Scouq — what we built, what broke, what we learned, and what comes next.
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clickhouse6 min readHow Scouq chose ClickHouse over TimescaleDB for storing 2.5 billion market data points. A technical comparison of compression, query speed, and operational trade-offs at scale.
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market-data8 min readCompare the top free stock market data APIs — Alpha Vantage, Finnhub, Twelve Data, Yahoo Finance, and Polygon free tier. Rate limits, coverage, data quality, and what to know before committing.
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monitoring7 min readHow we built a freshness monitor to detect stale data pipelines before users notice. A pattern for time-series ingest systems that prevents silent failures from reaching production.
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clickhouse7 min readA production migration playbook — moving 425 million OHLCV rows across 23 Rust binaries from QuestDB to ClickHouse. Zero data loss, zero downtime, 5-10x compression improvement.
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