Posts about Process
7 posts tagged Process.
AI governance and guardrails: the adult in the room, built into the code
AI governance is the keyword of 2026 as agents scale and EU AI Act obligations bite in August. What guardrails mean in engineering terms, and what to build.
How much does an AI agent cost to build?
The honest range for a production AI agent, broken into the build, the harness work nobody quotes for, and the per-action running cost once it ships.
RAG vs fine-tuning: what should your business use?
They get pitched as competitors and usually are not. How to tell which problem you actually have, and the cases where the right answer is both.
Evals before features: how we score AI work
The first thing we build on any AI feature is the test set, not the feature. How the evaluation set is made, what it measures, and why it changes the build.
What we check before taking over someone else's codebase
The audit we run in the first week on an inherited codebase: the eight questions we answer, in order, and what each one tells you about the months ahead.
How to hand over a codebase so a team can run it
Ownership is a clause; handover is the work that makes it real. The checklist we run at the end of every engagement so your team can run the system without us.
How long does an MVP take? Six to ten weeks, if you cut
The honest answer to how long an MVP takes, what decides whether it is six weeks or six months, and the one activity in the first week that determines the rest.
Tell us what you are building.
We reply within one business day with how we would build it, what it would cost, and which engagement model fits.
- 01Tell us what you are building
A short form or an email. No deck required, and "not sure yet" is a fine answer.
- 02A call with an engineer
Within one business day. Technical questions get technical answers, from the person who would build it.
- 03A written scope and quote
Fixed price where the scope is defined. The document is yours whether or not you go ahead.