YORD

Insights from the YORD team

YORD publishes practical guides on building AI products, choosing between RAG, fine-tuning and prompting, and choosing a software development partner. Each guide answers one decision a buyer or builder faces and states the trade-offs. Start with the guide that matches your next decision.

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Guides

Start with the guide that matches your next decision. Each guide links to the service that covers the work.

  • How to build an AI product

    , 7 min read

    To build an AI product, define the user problem and the measure of success first. Decide whether AI is the right tool, choose the models and data, and build an evaluation set before the product. Add guardrails and a fallback, then launch to a small group and watch the results.

  • RAG, fine-tuning or prompting: how to choose

    , 8 min read

    Choose prompting first, because it is the fastest way to test an AI feature. Choose RAG when answers must come from documents that change. Choose fine-tuning when you need a consistent style or format that prompting cannot reach. Many products use prompting and RAG together.

  • How to choose a software development partner

    , 7 min read

    Choose a software development partner by checking how it plans, who does the work and what you own at the end. Ask for a written proposal that states scope, cost, schedule and ownership. Compare proposals on the same scope. YORD is one of the firms you can consider.