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Notes from the field.

Engineering write-ups, research threads, and occasional takes on building AI systems that ship.

AI Engineering

Building a Self-Hosted Portfolio: Zero CDNs, Zero Compromises

How this site was built — Next.js 15, Tailwind CSS v4, shadcn/ui, Framer Motion, self-hosted fonts, and a deliberate policy of no third-party requests.

Aug 4, 20266 min read
Growth & Strategy

The B2B AI Playbook: What Founders Should Build First

The conversation I keep having with founders — where AI actually creates B2B value, how to do the ROI math, and why 'AI strategy' starts with a workflow, not a model.

Aug 3, 20265 min read
AI Engineering

Production RAG for Legal Research: The JurIA Playbook

What it actually takes to build grounded retrieval over multilingual legal corpora — chunking, hybrid search, citation grounding, and evaluation. Lessons from JurIA.

Aug 1, 20265 min read
Research & Leadership

Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Education: Learning as a Game

Why my PhD models the tutor–student pair as a partially-observable Markov game — and how RL plus game theory can build tutors that adapt to every student, not just the median.

Jul 28, 20265 min read
Growth & Strategy

From SEO to GEO: Winning the Answer Engine

Google gave you the ten blue links; ChatGPT gives you one answer and a citation. How to be the citation — the practical guide to Generative Engine Optimization.

Jul 25, 20265 min read
AI Engineering

Multi-Agent Systems: The Patterns That Actually Ship

Orchestrator–workers, supervisors, pipelines, and meshes — which agent architectures survive contact with production, which ones die in demos, and how to keep them observable.

Jul 20, 20265 min read
Growth & Strategy

Growth Hacking for Technical Founders: The Loop Is the Strategy

The engineer's guide to growth — build the referral loop into the product, let SEO compound, measure before you optimize, and never confuse activity with traction.

Jul 15, 20265 min read
AI Engineering

Shipping LLMs in Production: An Azure AI Foundry Field Guide

From model catalog to evals, guardrails, and monitoring — what it really takes to put LLM features in front of enterprise users without losing the plot.

Jul 10, 20265 min read
Research & Leadership

How to Start an AI Consulting Practice: Lessons from XAI.ma

Positioning, scoping, pricing, and delivery — the unglamorous mechanics of turning AI expertise into a business that pays for itself, from building XAI.ma.

Jul 5, 20265 min read
Growth & Strategy

Full-Stack + SEO: How MSLEGY.com Won the First Page

The case study of a corporate site that had to perform — architecture, Core Web Vitals as acceptance criteria, and an SEO system that owns the first page.

Jun 28, 20265 min read
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