Insights

Notes From Building AI in Production

Short, practical pieces from our engineering and consulting work with UK businesses. Written for decision-makers weighing up real AI investment.

AI readiness

The three questions to answer before an AI pilot

Most stalled pilots fail on data access, not model quality. A short checklist for deciding whether a use case is viable this quarter.

RAG

Why chunking strategy decides answer quality

Retrieval quality is set long before the model sees a prompt. How parsing and chunking choices shape what a knowledge assistant can say.

AI agents

Giving agents boundaries you can audit

Permissions, step limits, logged actions and escalation paths — the controls that make agent deployments defensible.

Evaluation

Building a test set before you build the feature

Golden datasets and evaluation suites turn subjective judgement about AI output into something you can regression test.

Cost

What production AI actually costs to run

Inference is rarely the biggest line. Integration, monitoring and review workflows usually are.

Voice

Where voice agents work and where they don't

Booking, triage and after-hours cover work well. Complex negotiation does not. Choosing the right calls to automate.

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