Every AI assistant I’ve used forgets everything the moment a conversation ends. And the second I feed it my actual documents to make it useful, I’ve handed my private life to someone else’s servers.

A knowledge base is only half a brain. The other half is the model — and the moment you have more than one document class, “which model” stops being a preference and becomes a routing decision. I answer it with two engines: a …

Everyone is building “agents” now. But ask five engineers what an agent actually is and you’ll get six answers. I’ve spent the last year working on agentic systems — from industrial diagnostic agents to workflow …