Engineering Blog

[Product]

Oct '26

A new type of user requires a new type of architecture

Agents demand a new architecture that combines application software with the scale of data infrastructure.

Alexander Christie
CTO & Co-founder

[Product]

Mar '26

Ask Attio: A technical look at our new agent

Here are some of the problems we encountered while building Ask Attio, and the systems we put in place to solve them.

Jamie Davies
Engineering Lead

[AI]

Feb '26

Introducing Universal Context

The agent-centric model of the universe.

Alexander Christie
CTO & Co-founder

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A new type of user requires a new type of architecture

Oct '26

[Product]

Agents demand a new architecture that combines application software with the scale of data infrastructure.

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[Product]

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[Product]

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Ask Attio: A technical look at our new agent

Mar '26

[Product]

Here are some of the problems we encountered while building Ask Attio, and the systems we put in place to solve them.

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Feb '26

[Product]

Here’s everything we learned about how to build a great MCP.

Introducing Universal Context

Feb '26

[AI]

The agent-centric model of the universe.

Build with Attio: Nick Janes and Will Stenzel, Dialed Technologies

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[Perspectives]

Nick and Will from Dialed Technologies talk about how they like to build with the App SDK.

Where’s the technical challenge in CRM anyway?

Nov '25

[Inside Attio]

Attio's approach to solving CRM's toughest engineering problems.

React Data List: Building virtualized UIs declaratively

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[Product]

Building React Data List, a declarative approach to constructing virtualized lists in React and React Native.

JavaScript string slice() considered harmful

Jun '25

[Web]

Understanding UTF-16 and protobuf encodings to resolve a bug in our CSV importer.

You can’t just prompt your way to great AI features

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[AI]

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Jun '25

[AI]

Learn more about the custom tooling we build to deploy the latest AI models in our codebase.

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[Web]

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