Notes

Practical notes on putting AI to work.

Short pieces you can act on. Written from the work, not from a content calendar, so they arrive when there is something worth saying.

For business owners

Plain-language notes for owners and operators: what AI assistants say about you, where AI pays off, and what to fix first.

  1. What AI assistants say about your business, and how to check in five minutes

    Some customers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity before they search. Here is how to see what those tools say about you, and what to fix first.

    · 4 min read

For developers

Engineering notes from building open-source agent memory: retrieval, knowledge graphs on SQLite, and running agents on real devices.

  1. When a node changes its type

    Here is how Curated Thoughts catches node-type drift at write time, repairs it on a schedule, and flags the rest for a human.

    · 4 min read

  2. Building an interruptible voice agent in Expo

    The fork of Speechmatics' two-way audio module that passed a device smoke run: echo-cancelled mic capture, low-latency PCM playback, and barge-in.

    · 4 min read

  3. Standing privacy modes

    How Curated Thoughts ships Strict, Ephemeral, and Connected standing privacy modes, and what App of Apps inherits for tools it generates at runtime.

    · 4 min read

  4. GraphRAG on SQLite, without a graph database

    How the open-source LLM Wiki memory engine stores facts as nodes, writes typed edges, and walks the graph with one recursive CTE. No Neo4j required.

    · 4 min read