How Rainier IT built Orting News: hourly polling of public sources, council meetings transcribed with Whisper on our own GPU, AI summaries with guardrails, and a person approving every story.
Series: How We Built It
The tools we built for Rainier IT and Orting, and how they work.
Shop Orting: How We Built a Free Directory for Every Business in Our Hometown
How Rainier IT built Shop Orting, a free directory, map and events calendar for every business in Orting, WA, on a hand-coded WordPress theme.
Inside Percival: 28 MCP Servers, 213 Tools, and 7 Workers Powering Our In-House AI Operator
A deep technical tour of Percival, our self-hosted AI operator — 28 MCP servers (213 tools) wired to every system at Rainier IT, 7 autonomous background workers, Claude Haiku over a LiteLLM proxy with Ollama fallback on a GPU LXC, pgvector memory, prompt caching, three-tier approval gates, and WebSocket streaming.
Meet “Percival the Great” : The Always-On AI Agent
Behind the scenes: how Rainier IT built Percival, an always-on AI operations agent that watches every client system, answers in plain English, and asks permission before it does anything risky.
Creating Percival, our AI Staff Writer
So we are hiring a new staff writer named Percival, and when I say we have to train this guy, I mean we really have […]