Cross-Functional Feature Discovery: How AI Teams Extract Product Priorities from Customer Conversations and Department Insights

Cross-Functional Feature Discovery: How AI Teams Extract Product Priorities from Customer Conversations and Department Insights

ByDarko Kolev

An AI startup engineer sits in a roadmap meeting with 47 feature requests spread across a Notion board—15 from the sales team promising they’ll close deals, 12 from support tickets about edge cases, 20 from the CEO’s conversations with design partners. Every stakeholder insists their requests are critical. The engineer, knowing they can ship maybe 3 features this quarter, faces the paralyzing question: which ones actually matter?

From 40+ Hours to 4 Clicks: How AI Transformed Client Reporting for a Marketing Agency

From 40+ Hours to 4 Clicks: How AI Transformed Client Reporting for a Marketing Agency

ByDarko Kolev

What would your team do with an extra 20 hours each month? For one marketing agency, this wasn’t a hypothetical question—it was a business transformation I helped deliver. The Reporting Nightmare Recently, I partnered with a mid-sized marketing agency juggling 15 client accounts. Their team was drowning in a monthly reporting nightmare: over 40 hours…

Take your RAG system to the next level

Take your RAG system to the next level

ByDarko Kolev

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) must be one of the most widely used systems in the world of Large Language Models to date. At its core, RAG combines the generative abilities of LLMs with a dynamic knowledge retrieval system, allowing models to access up-to-date, relevant knowledge base during generation. This knowledge base can be updated daily, without…

How to go from Jupyter notebook to Production AI system

How to go from Jupyter notebook to Production AI system

ByDarko Kolev

Let’s go over the few crucial steps when trying to build a real AI system people can use out of your precious AI demo. Start fresh The journey from a proof-of-concept Jupyter notebook to a production-ready AI system begins with a crucial decision: starting fresh. While your prototype notebook served as an invaluable experimental ground,…

Zero Dev

Zero Dev

ByDarko Kolev

In the previous article we discussed what is Account Abstraction and how cool it is and everything. It can potentially make the end-user’s experience much better, but the architecture is not that simple. There are Bundlers, Paymasters, and Smart Wallets, so as dApp developers, how do we actually use Account Abstraction. Today we will explore…

Account Abstraction 101

Account Abstraction 101

ByDarko Kolev

This is my first article on Account Abstraction, so I will keep things basic and general. Later on we will get to implementing AA in the real world. Acccount Abstraction (AA) is a novel way of managing user accounts on the Blockchain. Currently, there are two types of accounts: Smart Contracts and EOAs, Externally Owned…

Beginners Guide to Solidity Yul Assembly | Storage
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Beginners Guide to Solidity Yul Assembly | Storage

ByDarko Kolev

You don’t need to learn assembly to become a good Solidity Smart Contract developer, but you do need it to become a great one. If you’re in the industry long enough, sooner rather than later, you will come across assembly code in a Smart Contract. If you’re completely clueless, you might be in trouble. Solidity’s…

How OpenZeppelin Governor works | Smart Contract Review Series
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How OpenZeppelin Governor works | Smart Contract Review Series

ByDarko Kolev

Doing Smart Contract reviews of the popular protocols that have battle-tested smart contracts is the best way to learn. Courses or tutorials rarely teach us how to write production-ready code, so looking at something that is live on Mainnet and hasn’t been hacked (yet), is very useful. (Actually, it’s equally important to study smart contracts…