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Conversico: AI Voice Operations for Dental Practices

Multi-Agent Systems • Production AI

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Conversico: AI Voice Operations for Dental Practices

9 min read

An in-production founder case study on an AI voice receptionist for dental practices, built around missed-call recovery, booking support, privacy, and launch-gated operations.

In production · going to market · demo video coming soon

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Aurum at SThree: Enterprise Agentic AI Engineering

Multi-Agent Systems • AI Evaluation

12 min

Aurum at SThree: Enterprise Agentic AI Engineering

An employer-IP-bounded case study on Aurum at SThree: enterprise agentic AI engineering, reviewable state, fairness diagnostics, red-team testing, production control, and the self-improving-evaluator research that moved scoring quality from a 0.627 baseline to 0.851 without learning the benchmark.

Demo video coming soon

Personal Assistant AI: From Second Brain to Executive Assistant OS

Multi-Agent Systems • Production AI

10 min

Personal Assistant AI: From Second Brain to Executive Assistant OS

A private multi-agent second brain in daily use, with durable memory, proactive support, and quality monitoring behind a privacy-safe engineering trail.

Ongoing case study · demo video coming soon

Removing the LLM From the Hot Path: Building SThree’s Skills Taxonomy Pipeline

Production AI • LLM Cost Optimization

13 min

Removing the LLM From the Hot Path: Building SThree’s Skills Taxonomy Pipeline

A 30-experiment programme that replaced a per-skill LLM validator with a zero-LLM retrieval-and-filter cascade and a 7 kB classifier head — 180× cheaper, ~100× faster, and within ~2pp of the model it replaced.

18 May 2026

Bringing Old Family Photos To Life With AI

Computer Vision • Production AI

17 min

Bringing Old Family Photos To Life With AI

A technical log of an AI-assisted family film: colour-managed restoration, image-to-video animation, identity preservation, and the local pipeline that got built and then bypassed.

21 May 2026