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The Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Deploy RAG Inside Client Environments with Messy Data, Compliance Constraints, and Handoff Architecture
Deploy RAG inside a client's environment — messy data, compliance constraints, legacy infrastructure, and a handoff architecture that survives the engagement.
What's inside — and what you'll be able to build
Each chapter adds something your system can do that it couldn't do before.
- PrefacePrefaceFree
- Chapter 1Chapter 1: First Day. Wrong AssumptionsComing
- Chapter 2Chapter 2: The Catalog Is a SpreadsheetComing
- Chapter 3Chapter 3: A Working Demo Is Not a Working SystemComing
- Chapter 4Chapter 4: The Compliance Team Is Not the EnemyComing
- Chapter 5Chapter 5: Explaining a Grounding Failure to a CFOComing
- Chapter 6Chapter 6: Building Inside Their WallsComing
- Chapter 7Chapter 7: Handoff Is an Architecture DecisionComing
- Chapter 8Chapter 8: You Cannot Measure What You Cannot AccessComing
- Chapter 9Chapter 9: What Karna Left BehindComing
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The AI Engineer
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