<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Blog — notes on industrial commerce</title><description>Engineering and market notes from the team building the two-sided platform for industrial services.</description><link>https://www.civentia.com/</link><item><title>Sealed bids, server clocks, and audit trails: how Civentia keeps tenders fair</title><link>https://www.civentia.com/blog/how-civentia-keeps-tenders-fair/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.civentia.com/blog/how-civentia-keeps-tenders-fair/</guid><description>Fairness in competitive tendering cannot be a UI promise. Here is how Civentia enforces it in the database and the query layer.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is a two-sided industrial marketplace?</title><link>https://www.civentia.com/blog/what-is-a-two-sided-industrial-marketplace/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.civentia.com/blog/what-is-a-two-sided-industrial-marketplace/</guid><description>Most industrial software serves one side of the deal. A two-sided marketplace serves both — and the flywheel between them is the product.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why we rebuilt a perfectly good CRM</title><link>https://www.civentia.com/blog/from-valve-bench-to-platform/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.civentia.com/blog/from-valve-bench-to-platform/</guid><description>Civentia worked well as a safety-valve inspection CRM. We rebuilt it anyway — because a second industry showed up and taught us what the platform actually was.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>