AI Chatbots
Building chatbots that hold up in production — RAG retrieval, conversation design, channel integration, and the eval sets that separate a demo from a deployed assistant.
RAG Chatbot Architecture: 5-Stage Build Guide (2026)
5-stage RAG chatbot architecture on pgvector + Claude Sonnet 4.6 + Cohere Rerank. Confidence-gate flow, eval methodology, cost by component. 2026-Q1 benchmarks.
Ecommerce Chatbot: Shopify + RAG Build Guide (2026)
A working ecommerce chatbot build: Shopify Admin API, RAG over product catalog, WISMO, abandoned-cart recovery, Claude routing, and a 500-conversation eval.
Customer Service Chatbot: Channel Selection Playbook for 2026
Pick the right channel for your support workload — web, WhatsApp, voice, or Slack — with eval-driven deflection numbers from our delivery work.
What is a Conversational AI Platform? An Engineer's Architecture Guide for 2026
We break down conversational AI platform architecture — what the pieces actually are, what they cost, and how to evaluate one against your stack.
The Best AI Chatbots in 2026: A Practitioner Comparison
Top AI chatbots in 2026 compared by workload. Coding, research, writing, long-context, multimodal, cost — practitioner picks with current benchmarks.
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