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Launch gate checklist feeding a production system with guardrails and monitoring

AI Production Readiness Checklist for CTOs

What production-ready actually means An AI feature is ready for production when your team can measur...

Orchestrator delegating to researcher, writer and validator agents over a shared message log

Building a Multi-Agent AI System That Actually Works in Production

The demos for multi-agent AI frameworks look incredible. Autonomous agents planning, executing, and ...

Synchronous, streaming and async job response patterns for AI-powered APIs

Designing AI-Powered APIs: Patterns and Pitfalls

Building an API that wraps an AI model sounds straightforward — take input, call model, return outpu...

Timeline of proof of concept, data, evaluation, hardening and launch phases across 24 weeks

From PoC to Production: An Honest Engineering Timeline

One of the most frequent conversations we have with new clients starts the same way: "We have a work...

Versioned prompt templates moving through a test suite and canary rollout into production

Prompt Engineering at Scale: Moving Beyond Hacks

Prompt engineering has a reputation problem. For many developers, it conjures images of trial-and-er...

Decision split between retrieval for missing knowledge and fine-tuning for wrong behaviour

RAG vs Fine-Tuning: How to Choose the Right Approach for Your LLM

One of the most common questions we get from engineering teams is: "Should we fine-tune our model or...

Staircase of edge cases, latency, cost, evaluation, security and operations between demo and production

Why Your LLM Prototype Fails in Production (And How to Fix It)

Every week, a startup team demos their new LLM-powered product and it looks brilliant. The model ans...