PATTERNS · LAB / BRIEF / NOTE

Patterns, briefs,
and notes.

Everything we write lives here, marked for what it is. LAB — technical write-ups of approaches we've tested. BRIEF — the Monday Brief, archived after it ships. NOTE — opinions and shorter takes. We cite our influences. Never dressed up as client work.

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PATTERN · 01VISION · INDUSTRIAL QC

Vision LLMs
classifying damaged
pallet blocks.

A pattern for routing damaged-vs-intact wooden pallet blocks through a vision-LLM classifier instead of a custom-trained CV model. When the dataset is small and the failure modes are visual-and-describable, a vision LLM with a tight prompt beats a fine-tune.

Vision LLMFew-shotIndustrial QC

LAB · PUBLISHED MAY 2026Read pattern →

PATTERN · 02KNOWLEDGE · PERSONAL TOOLING

A personal
knowledge base,
built with an LLM.

Following the pattern Andrej Karpathy sketched: notes in, embeddings out, an LLM as the search-and-synthesis layer over your own writing. Our version, with the choices we made on retrieval, chunking, and the daily-use loop.

RAGPersonal toolingAfter Karpathy

LAB · IN PROGRESSRead pattern →

NOTE · 01GEO · AI SEARCH

What AI engines
actually read
on your site.

ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity answer questions your customers used to Google. Six concrete things they check before they cite you — the same six our free GEO scan scores.

GEOllms.txtFree tool

NOTE · PUBLISHED JUNE 2026Read note →

LAB · the rule

Honestly labeled lab work. Technical write-ups of approaches we've tested, marked LAB on every page. We cite our influences.

BRIEF · the rule

The Monday Brief, archived here after it lands in inboxes. One practical AI thing per issue: patterns, costs, lessons from production.

NOTE · the rule

Opinions and shorter takes. Clearly ours, clearly marked. No claims of production evidence unless we link to it.

CASES · live elsewhere

Paid client work, in production, with the client's name and a quote. Never mixed in here. See Cases.