News • Opinion • Research
Posts tagged: Opinion
What actually holds up in production — retrieval, cost, deployment, and the tradeoffs nobody puts in the sales deck. Written from client work and our own builds.
Long context didn't kill RAG — it changed what RAG is for
Every time a model ships a bigger context window, someone declares retrieval obsolete. Then they try to put a real corpus in the prompt and rediscover, at $1.50 a question, why retrieval exists.
Read the post →The local-vs-cloud cost argument is usually wrong
Most teams justify on-prem AI with a token-cost spreadsheet. Run the numbers honestly and cloud usually wins on cost alone — which means the real reasons to go local are the ones nobody puts in the deck.
Read the post →Have a workflow you're trying to figure out?
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll map it and tell you straight whether it belongs on your hardware or on a cloud API.