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Software & AI Development — Knowledge Base

Practical guides to building custom AI and LLM systems: what they cost, whether to build or buy, how RAG and fine-tuning differ, on-premises versus cloud deployment, document processing, and how to choose an AI development partner. Written by Haink, which builds production AI software and supplies the GPU infrastructure it runs on.

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Guides

• How Much Does It Cost to Build a Custom AI or LLM Solution? — Cost drivers, typical ranges by project type, and build-vs-run economics including on-premises GPU.
• Build vs Buy: Custom AI/LLM Application or Off-the-Shelf? — A framework for when to build, when to buy, and the hybrid layer most companies need.
• RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Which Should You Use? — What each does, when to use which, and why most production systems start with RAG.
• How to Build a Production-Grade RAG System — The full pipeline — ingestion to evaluation — and the mistakes that keep RAG demos from production.
• On-Premises vs Cloud LLM Deployment for Enterprises — Privacy, cost at scale, latency and control — and when each approach wins.
• How AI Document Processing Works (IDP Explained) — OCR, layout models and LLMs combined — accuracy expectations and handling messy documents.
• How to Choose an AI Development Company — Production track record, evaluation discipline, deployment options and red flags.
• How Long Does an AI Project Take? — Realistic timelines from discovery to production and what speeds projects up or slows them down.
• AI for KYC and Identity Verification: How It Works — How AI automates KYC — document authenticity, face matching, liveness and behavioral analysis — balancing fraud reduction and conversion.
• MLOps: Getting Machine Learning Models to Production — Why most ML models never ship, and the engineering — pipelines, CI/CD, monitoring, drift, retraining — that gets them to production.