Our learnings from the field.
A model knows everything except your business.
The AI you are evaluating has read more about your industry than anyone in your building. It has never heard of your building. The data foundation is how that changes, and it is the part of an AI system that decides whether the rest of it works.
The five jobs inside every AI business system.
Every working AI system does the same five things, whoever built it and whatever it is called. Once you can name them, you can evaluate anything you are shown in about ten minutes.
How AI agents actually work: a non-technical primer.
'AI agent' is one of the most-used phrases in AI right now, and one of the most loosely defined. Here is the clearest one-sentence version, and how agents actually work underneath it.
What is RAG, and when does a business need it.
RAG, retrieval-augmented generation, is the most useful AI architecture for a business that has its own data and wants AI to actually use it. Here is what it is, how it works, and the three questions that decide whether your business needs one.
Straterai Field Notes
Plain-English writing on building AI-native systems — how agents actually work, where they fail, and what we learn shipping them for real companies.
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