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Articles written from the work: retrieval design, evaluation methods, legal and regulated documents, and where controlled agents belong. Each one is grounded in public sources or in what we have built, and says so.
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A fictional tenancy deposit story shows how query decomposition turns a narrative into focused searches, checks evidence coverage and supports cited answers. Includes the workflow, failure modes and a fair evaluation method.
Read the articleOne finance question put through all three systems: where each answer comes from, what each can and cannot do, where the risk moves when tools are added, and how to tell which one a proposal is really offering.
Read the articleA worked example on one scanned invoice: the fields OCR read, the nine checks applied, the one low-confidence field that fails, and what the reviewer sees. Plus the checks every invoice pipeline should run and how to evaluate one.
Read the articleLawyers ask two kinds of question that no single retrieval method answers well. How hybrid retrieval fixes it, how reciprocal rank fusion merges the results, and what fusion still cannot do: reranking, chunking, temporal validity and permissions.
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