The Oddblog

What we’re learning while we build, and the news along the way. Real notes from real delivery — modernizing legacy systems, putting AI to work inside the federal boundary, designing for the person on the other end of the form — plus contract awards, recognition, and press. Written by the Oddballs doing it.

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Engineering

Tokenomics

The assumption was that AI would follow the usual curve: models get better, costs fall, everyone wins. That happened for a while. Then Anthropic’s Fable model dropped, and the best model on the market is now also one of the most expensive to run at scale.

Delivery

How Our Sprints Actually Changed (It Wasn’t the Speed)

We handed most of our building over to AI agents expecting to move faster. We do — but the real change is that talking to each other became the actual job, and on the good days, the best part of it.

By Agata Ciesielski ·

Engineering

Enterprise Notification Platform: Improving Veteran Outreach through Devops

Oddball modernized a federal platform using AWS cloud infrastructure and DevOps tools for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to meet complex requirements and deliver secure, real-time, multichannel communication to Veterans.

Engineering

Va.gov Platform: Improving Veteran Outreach through Improvements to Front End tooling

Under a federal digital modernization strategy, Oddball was tasked with improving the security and speed at which services and applications were deployed on a high-visibility, high-impact platform. Our solution? Use our DevOps expertise to create a staged continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) data pipeline, and isolate applications front-end code to deliver quick and secure Veteran-facing features and improvements.

Company News

Oddcore FY25 Recap: Driving Innovation Across VA’s Digital Ecosystem

We’re excited to announce that our joint venture, Oddcore, closed out the 2025 fiscal year with strong momentum, having secured multiple VA task orders through our SPRUCE IDIQ, driving innovation and modernization across VA’s digital ecosystem. Since Spring 2025, Oddcore has been awarded 9 task orders through the SPRUCE IDIQ, demonstrating our commitment to delivering secure, human-centered, and scalable digital solutions that enhance the Veteran experience and contribute to VA’s Digital Modernization Initiative.