3 posts
Thesis
The stack is the product.
The anchor essay. Why assembled GenAI stacks stall below the bar, why no vendor in the stack is positioned to fix them, and the end-to-end loop that is: evaluate, fine-tune, and own every layer against your number.
optimization·11 min·Aug 2026
From the Field
Legal tool calls, decomposed.
A field note on legal tool-call optimization: thin tool routing, per-tool argument builders, and failure-driven prompt/program optimization for higher argument accuracy with less context pressure.
legal·11 min·Jul 2026coming soon
Search That Works
Component benchmarks lie. Tune the stack.
A ten-point component lead all but disappeared in the stack that shipped. The product boundary, not the leaderboard, is where the decision belongs.
retrieval·9 min·Jun 2026