* FIELD NOTES

REAL LESSONS FROM
SHIPPED AI

What worked, what burned us, and what we'd ship next. No fluff, no thought-leadership — just notes from the field.

Shipping AI That Survives Production

Demos are cheap. Production AI is observable, cost-aware, and quietly boring. Here's the operating model we ship by.

A practical map of what actually matters in retrieval — chunking, hybrid search, rerankers, and the eval set you'll wish you started with.

Most "agents" are a for-loop with anxiety. Here are the patterns we use to ship autonomous workflows that survive contact with reality.

How a small studio ships big AI work — the five-step loop we run on every engagement, from align to compound.