Model-Adjacent Products, Part 5: The Implementation Path
The build manifest: 90 days from foundation to production-ready autonomy. What to ship in what sequence.
Engineering
Model-Adjacent Products, Part 4: Governance & Practice
Alignment as a runtime surface, policy enforcement without retraining. Team practices that ship.
Model-Adjacent Products, Part 3: Quality Gates
Model outputs are hypotheses that need verification pipelines to catch errors before users do.
Model-Adjacent Products, Part 2: Context & Tools
Memory and hands for the model: retrieval that doesn’t hallucinate. Tools that don’t break production.
Model-Adjacent Products, Part 1: The Architecture
The physics of production AI: latency engineering that keeps humans in the loop. Token economics that don’t bankrupt you.
Model-Adjacent Products: A Builder's Guide
A 6-part series on building production AI systems. The foundation model is the CPU; your product is the computer you build around it.