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Practical, opinionated writing on applied AI — written to be useful, not to rank.
New pieces publish regularly. They're written locally, reviewed by Ravijeet, and deployed to this site — part of the local-first, no-cloud pipeline behind ravijeet.com. Each piece is also shared on Substack and LinkedIn.
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Field notes on AI that ships — written to be useful, not to rank.
"Buyers are calling AI consulting a scam. I think they're mostly right."
A state government agency is now telling Victorian small businesses how to protect themselves from AI scams, and buyers are openly calling AI consulting out. The fear is rational. Here's the bar that separates a real engagement from a twelve-month invoice.
Read →"APRA just named 'shadow AI' as a failure. Here's what it means for a Melbourne fintech."
APRA's April 2026 letter called "shadow AI" a direct governance failure. For a small APRA-regulated firm the fix isn't another policy PDF. It's a local AI box your staff can actually use, where the data never leaves the building.
Read →Everyone's shipping AI-written code now. The edge is proving it works
JetBrains puts AI coding-agent use at 39%. For a Melbourne business commissioning software, that changes the buying question. Not "do they use AI?" but "can they show you the code is sound?"
Read →When the model is smarter than the people steering it
A recent debate between two of the sharper AI thinkers landed on a question most enterprises never ask before they buy. When the system is smarter than the people running it, who is it actually working for?
Read →From weeks to 15 minutes — AI that rewrote the report bottleneck in neuroaffirming autism & ADHD assessments
For a neuroaffirming assessment practice, the report — not the clinical work — was the bottleneck. We built an AI pipeline that reads every document and the full interview transcript and drafts a diagnostic report in 15 minutes instead of 2–3 weeks.
Read →From pilot to production: what actually separates AI demos from AI that ships
Why most enterprise AI dies in the pilot — and the five things that separate a demo from AI that touches real P&L.
Read →Local-first, uncensored AI: why the most capable AI is the AI you own
Cloud AI comes with quotas, content filters, and data leakage. The better way runs on your own hardware — local-first and uncensored by design.
Read →New pieces publish regularly — also on Substack and LinkedIn.