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Engineering notes from production AI.

Practical lessons from systems we have designed and shipped: architecture decisions, evaluation, cost control and the mistakes worth avoiding.

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How to Choose a RAG Development Company: A Buyer's Checklist

Twelve questions to ask before you hire a RAG development company, covering proof, evaluation, retrieval, security, ownership and support, plus the red flags.

RAGVendor SelectionEnterprise AI
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Building an Enterprise Legal AI Platform: Triple Search, Anonymization and RAG

How I built Datagreffe Justice: triple-search retrieval over 50,000+ court decisions, 98% PII detection, 100% compliance and sub-2-second cited answers.

RAGLegal AIAnonymization
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LangGraph vs CrewAI for Enterprise AI Agents: How I Choose

A practical comparison from shipping both: when LangGraph's explicit state and interrupts win, when CrewAI's role-based crews win, and when to use neither.

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Multi-Jurisdiction PII Anonymization for Legal Documents with LLMs

How I approach anonymizing court decisions across jurisdictions with LLMs: layered detection, consistent pseudonyms, stricter safeguards and measured accuracy.

AnonymizationLegal AIPII
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained for Business Leaders

What the Model Context Protocol is, why it became the standard way to connect AI to business systems, and the governance questions to settle before rollout.

Model Context ProtocolAI AgentsAI Strategy
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RAG Development Cost in 2026: What Actually Drives the Price

What makes a RAG system cost what it does: data quality, retrieval, security, evaluation and scale, and how to scope a build so the budget lands where it matters.

RAGAI CostsEnterprise AI
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Triple Search: Why Legal RAG Needs Keyword, Semantic and Metadata Retrieval

Why vector search alone fails legal research, and how fusing keyword, semantic and metadata search retrieved 15% better across 50,000+ court decisions.

RAGLegal AIHybrid Search
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Building a Production Voice AI Pipeline: WhatsApp, Whisper and Prompt Caching

Lessons from a 24/7 WhatsApp voice pipeline with Whisper, Claude replies and the prompt caching setup that cut input-token costs by roughly 90%.

Voice AIPrompt CachingTwilio
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Building a Human-in-the-Loop Multi-Agent Platform with LangGraph and MCP

How I designed an agent platform on LangGraph with Model Context Protocol tools, persistent checkpointed memory and human approval before sensitive actions.

LangGraphModel Context ProtocolAI Agents
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RAG vs Fine-Tuning: When to Use Which

A practical breakdown of when retrieval-augmented generation beats fine-tuning and vice versa, based on production experience building both kinds of systems.

RAGFine-TuningLLMs
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