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Notes from inside the builds

What production actually demanded — the retrieval decisions, the offline edge cases, the escalation ladders. Written by the people who shipped it.

featuredAI & retrieval · 3 min read

What building a production RAG system for legal documents actually requires

Chunking is where most legal AI quietly fails. A walkthrough of structure-aware splitting, why hybrid retrieval beat pure vector search for us, and what “cited” has to mean before a lawyer will trust an answer.

Jul 14, 2026 · read the post →

Navy retrieval diagram with electric-blue citation paths over cream document stacks

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All AI & retrieval IoT Architecture

Dark water and a compact marine device with an electric-blue pairing pulse

IoT · 2 min

Designing offline-first BLE sync for hardware that goes underwater

Resumable chunked uploads, conflict rules, and why the app should never care whether there’s signal.

Jun 22, 2026 · read →

Layered navy rooms separated by electric-blue isolation walls

Architecture · 2 min

Multi-tenant isolation patterns we’d use again

Where to enforce the boundary, what to never trust the client for, and the tradeoffs at the query layer.

May 18, 2026 · read →

Night industrial dashboard with one electric-blue alert becoming a phone line

IoT · 2 min

When an alert has to be a phone call

Escalation design for life-safety monitoring, and why push notifications aren’t enough at 3am.

Apr 9, 2026 · read →

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