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How I went from parsing messy contracts to building an evidence-grounded AI platform on Google Cloud—and why evaluating the alternatives mattered more than choosing the fanciest technology. The Problem: Documents Are Everywhere. Structured Data Isn't. Every organization deals with documents: contracts, invoices, agreements, compliance reports, and
Most of us learned about money by guessing. We nod along to "expense ratio" and "Roth conversion", and hope a search result or a friend fills the gaps. Finnie is a different kind of help: an AI guide that explains how money, markets and taxes work,
Building an AI application is surprisingly easy. Building an AI application that is fast, persistent, safe, multi-user, inexpensive to run, and maintainable is a very different problem. That is the journey I went through while re-architecting Finnie, a personal-finance education application built around multiple AI agents. The
Over the last couple of weeks, our Designing Data-Intensive Applications book club has been discussing Chapter 7: Sharding. Unlike some of our previous sessions, these turned into less of a presentation and more of a brainstorming exercise. We would pick a design, ask "But what happens when...?"
