The Delivery Edge
A weekly newsletter for ServiceNow implementation and build partners.
AI made the happy path cheap for everyone. What it did not make cheap is review, testing, governance and risk — the layer your client cannot self-serve. That layer is your margin. Each week, one argument about how to defend it, backed by what we actually see shipping.
What Lands In Your Inbox
One argument a week—not a link roundup
Where The Margin Went
The Economics
What AI-assisted build actually does to a fixed-price statement of work, which phases stop being billable, and how to reprice before the client notices first.
What Broke, And Why
Field Notes
Anonymized post-mortems from real engagements—including AI-built work that reached production and shouldn't have. Specific enough to be useful, never identifiable.
Certification Reality
Store Submissions
What ServiceNow's review actually checks, what changes release over release, and what to fix before you submit rather than after you're rejected.
A Take You Can Argue With
Opinion
A position a respected peer could reasonably disagree with, anchored to first-party evidence. If it's safe enough that everyone nods, it wasn't worth sending.
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It's written by Saurav Sarkar, who has been building on ServiceNow since 2012 and now runs XpertApps, a ServiceNow Build Partner. We've delivered 25+ certified ServiceNow Store apps with a 100% first-submission pass rate—so the certification and review material comes from submissions we ran ourselves, not from a vendor blog.
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