# Hagumi Lab

> The engineering & R&D notebook of Hagumi Studio. The engineering & R&D notebook of Hagumi Studio — practical, answer-first writing on design engineering, automation, AI agents, performance, self-hosting and SEO/GEO.

## Articles
- [Designing for AI search: a practical GEO/AEO playbook for 2026](https://hagumilab.com/en/blog/designing-for-ai-search): Search stopped being ten blue links. Here's how we structure a static site so ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google's AI Overviews actually cite it — schema, llms.txt, answer-first writing, and the edge gotchas that silently block AI crawlers.
- [Static-first: the case for Astro over a CMS](https://hagumilab.com/en/blog/static-first-astro): Why we stopped reaching for WordPress and Ghost — and what a git-based, zero-database stack buys a small team.
- [Self-hosting your studio stack on a single server](https://hagumilab.com/en/blog/self-hosting-studio-stack): One Proxmox box, a dozen services, and the architecture that keeps client data on infrastructure we control.
- [From Figma to production: our design-engineering handoff](https://hagumilab.com/en/blog/figma-to-production-handoff): Tokens, Code Connect, and the handoff ritual that kills the 'that's not what I designed' loop.
- [n8n workflow automation: five workflows every small business needs](https://hagumilab.com/en/blog/n8n-automation-small-business): Lead routing, invoicing, review requests — the unglamorous automations that quietly save a day a week.
- [Building AI agents that do real work, not demos](https://hagumilab.com/en/blog/ai-agents-real-work): Tool-calling, guardrails, and the difference between a flashy chatbot and an agent you'd trust with a workflow.
- [Core Web Vitals in 2026: how we hit 100/100](https://hagumilab.com/en/blog/core-web-vitals-100): The font-loading, image, and edge tactics behind sites that score perfect without a performance team.
- [Brand systems that scale: tokens, not screenshots](https://hagumilab.com/en/blog/brand-systems-tokens): How to hand a client a brand that survives contact with real software — variables, not static mockups.
- [SaaS sprawl vs. owning your tools](https://hagumilab.com/en/blog/saas-sprawl-vs-owning): The quiet tax of fifteen subscriptions, and a pragmatic case for hosting the boring parts yourself.
- [Email that lands: deliverability for founder-led newsletters](https://hagumilab.com/en/blog/email-deliverability-newsletters): SPF, DKIM, DMARC and the sending discipline that keeps your newsletter out of spam and in front of people.

## About
- [About Hagumi Lab](https://hagumilab.com/en/about): Who we are and what we write about.
- [Hagumi Studio](https://hagumistudio.com): The studio behind the Lab.