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02 / Applied artificial intelligence

Documents, understood.
Judgment, preserved.

Document intelligence that combines retrieval, structured extraction, and human review where the stakes demand it.

Enterprise clientPython / FastAPI / LLMs / pgvector / PostgreSQL
Context & selection, conceptual photographic artwork
Material study / Context & selection / Conceptual artwork, not client hardware

01 / Decision record

The reasoning
underneath the result.

01The constraint
Manual review consumed thousands of person-hours each month. Keyword automation found only a fraction of the relevant content and generated too many false positives.
02The decision
Combine semantic retrieval with LLM extraction and classification. Route uncertain results to a human, and track accuracy, recall, and drift through a dedicated evaluation framework.
03The trade-off
Automation is not the objective at every confidence level. Keeping a review path makes uncertainty an explicit part of the system.
04The outcome
Manual review fell by 90%, with 97% extraction accuracy reported across a platform processing more than ten thousand documents a day.

02 / System boundaries

Every part has
a clear responsibility.

01

Prepare

OCR & chunking

Preserve useful context

02

Retrieve

Embeddings

Find relevant evidence

03

Extract

LLMs

Structured results

04

Review

Confidence routing

Human verification

A high-level reading of the published architecture. Boundaries shown here are conceptual, not a deployment diagram.

03 / Outcomes

What changed.

90%less manual review
97%extraction accuracy
10K+documents per day
3 weeksprototype to production

Results reported in this case study. These are separate from the illustrative routing model.

Next engagement

Market data. Without the bottleneck.

The practice

AI, systems, and difficult software.
Independent in thought. Close to the work.

Decision record

Material study / generated photographic artwork

An artistic study of precision and information. Not a photograph of a client system or a company facility.

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