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Plain advice on using AI in your business, and technical guides for the engineers building it.

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Does your product really need AI? Five questions to ask first

AI can be a great investment or an expensive distraction. These five questions help you tell which one you're looking at.

Building an MCP server with OAuth for Claude

A complete, working example in Python: each user signs in, sees only their own data, and connects from Claude Code or Claude Desktop.
RAG vs MCP: what each one does, and the MCP servers worth using

They aren't competitors. Here's how to choose, when you need both, and the servers we'd start with.
How to build a RAG agent in Python that holds up in production

From a raw PDF to an agent you can trust with real users: search that works, tests that block bad releases, permissions enforced in code, and a log of every run.