AI Strategy
Fractional CTO vs. Full-Time CTO for AI Startups
A practical comparison of fractional CTO services versus full-time CTO hiring for growth-stage AI startups. Cost, speed, expertise, and when each model wins.
18 June 20269 min read
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Practical insights on AI strategy, machine learning, LLMs and production operations. No fluff — just lessons from 500+ real-world projects.
Cloud & DevOps
GPU FinOps: Cutting Enterprise AI Infrastructure Spend
A practitioner's playbook for controlling GPU and AI infrastructure costs at scale — the wasteful patterns we see most and the levers that move spend.
16 June 202610 min read
Cybersecurity
Red Teaming Enterprise LLM Applications: A Playbook
How we red team production LLM and agent systems for enterprise clients — the attack taxonomy that matters, our six-phase process, and where to invest first.
9 June 20269 min read
Software Development
Production LLM Eval Framework: Catch Regressions
How to build an LLM evaluation framework for production: golden datasets, LLM-as-judge scoring, CI gates and live sampling that catch regressions early.
13 May 202610 min read
Software Development
AI Coding Agents for Enterprise Engineering
A practitioner's guide to deploying AI coding agents in enterprise engineering: governance, review patterns, ROI math, and the failure modes nobody talks about.
28 April 20269 min read
AI Strategy
Enterprise AI Trends 2026: What's Delivering ROI
The enterprise AI trends that matter in 2026: what is delivering ROI, what is stalling and where budgets are moving, drawn from 500+ projects with real clients.
20 March 20269 min read
Software Development
MLOps CI/CD Consulting: How We Build ML Pipelines
Looking to hire MLOps or CI/CD help? Scalexa, behind 500+ projects, builds ML pipelines, validation gates, and automated delivery for AI systems.
18 March 202610 min read
AI Strategy
Computer Vision in Healthcare: Working vs Hype
Computer vision in healthcare: which applications deliver real clinical results and which are still stuck in research. Medical imaging, pathology, surgical AI.
16 March 20269 min read
Software Development
Running ML Workloads on Kubernetes: A Practical Guide
How to configure Kubernetes for machine learning: GPU scheduling, resource management, model serving, and common pitfalls from real production deployments.
14 March 202612 min read
Software Development
RAG Architecture in Production: Enterprise Lessons
Why most RAG systems fail in production — and how to fix them. Chunking strategies, retrieval tuning, and hard lessons from real enterprise deployments.
10 March 202611 min read
Case Study
Aerial AI Roof Damage Detection: NavGen Case Study
How a U-Net + CNN pipeline detects hail, wind and storm roof damage from aerial imagery in under 2 seconds per property: AWS architecture, costs and results.
8 March 202614 min read
AI Strategy
AI Agents in Enterprise Automation: Real vs Marketing
AI agents in 2026: what actually works in production vs. what's still vaporware. Tool-calling, orchestration patterns, and the enterprise guardrails that…
7 March 20269 min read
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