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Introducing Portico Play: promo games your casino can run without an integration
We have built a product of our own. Portico Play Promos is a set of branded promotional games for casinos, sportsbooks and affiliates, and the first casino integration starts this month.

The mock got cheap. The decision didn’t.
AI made mockups nearly free. Agreeing on them didn’t get any easier, and that turns out to be the whole problem.

Welcome to the team, Maeve and Argus
Our agent team is six now. Maeve fields support and keeps the docs honest, Argus watches the alerts at three in the morning, and everyone else's job changed too.

Bonus Abuse Control After the UKGC's 10x Cap
The UKGC's 10x wagering cap removed operators' main bonus-abuse lever. Here's how product teams should redesign controls around game weighting, bet caps and explicit ownership instead.

Single Wallet for Casino and Sportsbook: What It Costs
A single wallet looks simple from the player's side, but merging the ledger forces you to rebuild bonus contribution logic and doesn't remove a single regulatory reporting obligation.

Certification Needs Its Own Lane on Your Roadmap
Certification isn't a task to slot into the launch sprint. It needs its own lane on the roadmap, running in parallel from the moment the math model is frozen.

Feature Flags Don't Make an Update Minor
Toggling a change off behind a flag feels like a safe deploy. UKGC's Annex A doesn't see it that way, and neither should your rollout backlog.

Where the UKGC's FRA Check Belongs in Your Deposit Flow
The financial risk assessment check belongs inside the deposit event, not as a separate screen bolted onto checkout. Here's where it sits, what state the account is in while it runs, and how to instrument the small share of players it touches.

How we build with a team of AI agents in Slack
Not autocomplete, not a chatbot. Four AI colleagues with names, jobs, and guardrails, working in the same Slack we do.

Product Prioritization: RICE, ICE & OKR Framework Guide
Learn proven prioritization frameworks like RICE, ICE, and SWJF from 20+ years of product leadership. Master data-driven decision-making for product portfolios.

2026 UX Tools: What Works and Why
Luminbranes Senior UX Manager - Shiva, share her view on what is important to think of when it comes to UX testing in 2026 and what tools one should use.

Only Store What You Really Need
A Strategic Approach to Postgres Performance, Tuning Tips – Part 1

Product Strategy for Complete Products, Components and Features
Learn how to build a product strategy that connects vision, objectives, UX insights and roadmaps so product owners and product managers ship features that truly move the business.

Företagarna
Starting and running a business in Sweden is both rewarding and demanding. Behind every great product or service lies a layer of legal structures, financial planning, contracts, employee questions, customer dialogues — and more administration than most people expect.

Q3 planning done right for Keep.Social
At Luminbrane, we believe in setting bold goals and hitting them. We believe in clarity and alignment. That’s why we kicked off our Q3 planning for Keep.Social together with our trusted partners at Combination in Gothenburg.

Luminbrane Strengthens Engineering Expertise
We’re proud to announce that Rikard Schönbeck and Luan Nguyen have officially joined Luminbrane, bringing with them world-class technical expertise and further reinforcing our commitment to building scalable, high-performing digital products from the ground up.

Make UX Research Impactful
Shiva share a few personal reflections on one of the core themes of the UX360 conference in Berline: how UX research can better support decision-making.

A partnership between Luminbrane and the Derivco Group
We are thrilled to announce a strategic partnership between Luminbrane and Derivco, a global leader in iGaming software development.

Luminbrane Supercharges End-to-End Product Expertise, Welcoming UI/UX Leaders Richard Kårström and Shiva Chavoshian
We’re incredibly excited to announce a major enhancement to the Luminbrane team! We are thrilled to welcome two highly accomplished design leaders: Richard Kårström and Shiva Chavoshian.

Mastering Product Strategy
Earlier in March I, Marcus Adolfsson, founder of Luminbrane, had the incredible opportunity to participate in the Product Peoples’ Product Leaders Breakfast, held at the inspiring Cisco offices in Stockholm. What an enriching morning it was!
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