Engineering Notes & Architecture Briefs
Field notes from our systems architects on cited private RAG, reachability-first CVE triage, and offline ISO PDF/A preservation — plus our interactive readiness checklist.
Out-of-the-box LLM wrappers struggle with exact part numbers, legal clauses, and audit traceability. Combining lexical BM25 search with dense vector embeddings and strict page-level citations solves both accuracy and compliance.
CVSS severity scores alone tell you how bad a vulnerability could be in theory — not whether it is exploited in the wild or even called by your application. Correlating multi-scanner output with CISA KEV, EPSS, and AST reachability changes the math.
Uploading sensitive legal contracts, medical records, or rare institutional manuscripts to public cloud OCR APIs violates data sovereignty and creates vendor lock-in. Local-first OCR paired with ISO PDF/A packaging keeps full custody on your own machines.
Interactive Self-Assessment · Printable Resource
Use this 9-point engineering checklist before shipping internal AI, passing a customer security audit, or digitising sensitive records. Click any item to track your readiness or print/save as PDF.
