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Feb 11, 2026

Git-Native Quality Management

If you're building an AI-powered medical device, you already live in Git. Your source code, your model training pipelines, your CI/CD — it all runs through repositories, branches, and pull requests. So why does your Quality Management System live in a completely separate universe of PDFs, Word docs, and folder structures that nobody trusts?

Feb 11, 2026

Markdown that Feels Like Notion

Let's be honest, nobody wants to write quality management documents. And nobody wants to write them in raw Markdown, staring at asterisks and bracket syntax in a monospace editor like it's 2009. But Markdown is the right format for regulated documents. It's plain text, so it diffs cleanly in Git. It's human-readable even without rendering. It's not locked into any vendor's proprietary format. And it plays perfectly with the Git-native compliance workflow that makes Lightworks possible.

Feb 11, 2026

No Vendor Lock-In

Here's a question nobody asks during the eQMS sales demo, What happens when you want to leave? Not because you're planning to leave. But because the answer tells you everything about the power dynamic you're entering. And in the medical device QMS market, that power dynamic is almost always tilted against you.