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