Engineering notes and workflow guides for on-device incident postmortem drafting on macOS.
The standing enterprise LLM ban. The cumulative case of cloud-AI incidents that hardened policy at regulated buyers from 2023 to 2026. The postmortem debt this creates for SREs writing docs by hand. And what an on-device drafter changes.
Why every AI-drafted claim must be two clicks from its source line. How schema-constrained extraction and a drafter quarantined from raw text make citation chains an architectural property, not a UI feature. Why cloud incident-management vendors didn’t ship them.
A complete step-by-step walkthrough using a real memory-leak incident. Slack export → structured timeline → five-section drafted postmortem → signed off → exported as Markdown or PDF. Three minutes wall time on Apple Silicon.
The v1.0 launch announcement. Why a Mac-only, on-device, App-Sandbox-enforced postmortem drafter is the right shape for the regulated-buyer market that’s priced out of the cloud incident-management AI wave.