Practical perspective

Ideas for building AI that holds up.

Notes on product strategy, engineering decisions, and the human work around useful AI systems.

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • LLMs
  • AI Agents
  • RAG
  • Automation
  • SaaS
  • Product Development
  • Mobile Development
AI STRATEGY

How to find an AI use case worth funding

A practical test for separating interesting ideas from valuable product bets.

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LLMS

Choosing an LLM: a product team's decision framework

Balance quality, latency, cost, data policy, and model flexibility.

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AI AGENTS

Where AI agents create value today

The right conditions for agents that do more than generate text.

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RAG

Why a RAG system needs evaluation from day one

How to measure groundedness, completeness, and retrieval quality.

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AUTOMATION

Designing AI automation around exceptions

The patterns that preserve trust when operational reality gets messy.

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SAAS

What changes when AI is your SaaS product

Designing the pricing, experience, data model, and quality loop together.

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PRODUCT

Prototype an AI product without prototyping the wrong thing

How to validate the risky assumption before making a platform investment.

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MOBILE

AI on mobile: design for the moment, not the model

What changes when intelligent assistance meets the physical world.

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AI STRATEGY

How to make the case for AI adoption

An outcome-led way to align stakeholders without inflated promises.

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LLMS

Model routing is a product decision

How to use more than one model without complicating the experience.

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AI AGENTS

Human-in-the-loop, done with intent

Design review moments that make agent systems safer and better.

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RAG

Metadata is the hidden work of enterprise search

The information architecture that makes answers more useful.

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AUTOMATION

What to automate before you automate everything

Find workflows with the right volume, clarity, and consequence.

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SAAS

Usage analytics for AI products that learn

Track the signals that reveal trust, usefulness, and product opportunity.

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PRODUCT

The AI product discovery questions that matter

A checklist for the first conversation with users and operators.

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MOBILE

Building trustworthy AI interactions on small screens

Make confidence, controls, and context visible without clutter.

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AI STRATEGY

AI governance that enables delivery

Replace blanket restrictions with practical, risk-aware guardrails.

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LLMS

Fine-tuning versus retrieval: how to decide

Choose the technique that serves the behavior you actually need.

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AI AGENTS

Multi-agent systems: when complexity pays off

Understand the use cases where specialized agents are justified.

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AUTOMATION

Measuring the ROI of AI workflow automation

Build an evidence-based scorecard for time, risk, quality, and revenue.

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