Guides

Guides

Comparison guides and decision frameworks for AI automation. Each one leads with a verdict, then shows the numbers, the tradeoffs and the edge cases that change the answer.

GuideGraphiti Without Neo4j September 23, 2026 · 5 min

Graphiti Without Neo4j: One Embedded File, Ollama, No API Key

Graphiti without Neo4j or Docker: Kuzu is deprecated, FalkorDB Lite allows one process. An embedded file with one writer and many readers, measured.

GuideGraphiti add_episode September 18, 2026 · 8 min

Graphiti add_episode: Parameters, Indices and the Errors I Hit

How to call Graphiti's add_episode: parameters, EpisodeType, build_indices_and_constraints, group_id on FalkorDB, and the errors my graphs hit.

September 14, 2026 · 7 min

Palantir Foundry Alternative: Start With One Workflow

Compare Palantir Foundry with a focused open-source context layer: scope, costs, governance and a runnable delivery-blocker demo.

GuideTemporal Knowledge Graph September 11, 2026 · 8 min

Temporal Knowledge Graph: How AI Agents Know What Is True Now

How a temporal knowledge graph keeps AI agents on current facts, and three rules from running Graphiti: a reader one patch behind returned nothing, silently.

GuideGraphiti vs Mem0 September 11, 2026 · 7 min

Graphiti vs Mem0: Which Memory Layer Fits Your AI Agents

Graphiti vs Mem0 in September 2026: how each stores and updates facts, what runs self-hosted, what the benchmark fight says, and which fits your agents.

GuideGraphiti in Production September 11, 2026 · 7 min

Graphiti in Production: FalkorDB or Neo4j, Azure or Ollama, and What Breaks

Graphiti in production on FalkorDB or Neo4j, from graphs I run: one embedding model on two Ollama builds agreed at cosine 0.80. The checklist that followed.

July 5, 2026 · 12 min

Claude API Pricing Tiers and Cost Optimization Playbook (2026)

Claude API and Fable 5 pricing, plus every lever to cut Anthropic API cost without losing quality: routing, caching, batching, effort tuning.

July 5, 2026 · 8 min

Claude Fable 5 Cost: What It Actually Costs and How to Control It (2026)

Claude Fable 5 and 5.1 cost $10/$50 per million tokens, twice Opus 5. Cache reads fell to $0.25 on 5.1. What drives the bill and how to govern it.

June 7, 2026 · 4 min

Voice AI Agents for Small Business: What Actually Ships in 2026

The voice AI that pays back for a small business is narrow and boring: after-hours triage, booking, order status. Here is what ships and what to skip.

GuideAgent Memory From Your Task Manager May 30, 2026 · 5 min

Agent Memory From Your Task Manager: CLI + MCP, No Vector DB

Turn your task manager into agent memory: an adapter-not-migration CLI and MCP server with hybrid RRF retrieval over TickTick or an Obsidian vault.

May 9, 2026 · 13 min

Pinecone vs RunPod for Vector Search: Managed vs Self-Hosted (2026)

Pinecone vs RunPod for vector search: managed serverless against self-hosted Qdrant on a rented pod. Sep 2026 prices, break-even, residency.

May 8, 2026 · 7 min

Pinecone vs RunPod: They're Not Competitors (2026)

Pinecone vs RunPod: a vector database and a GPU cloud, not rivals. Sep 2026 prices, EU regions, and when Qdrant on RunPod replaces Pinecone.

The context layer for your AI agents

Your agents answer from whatever the retriever finds, and too often that is last quarter's truth. I build the context layer they answer and act from: a temporal knowledge graph that keeps every fact with its source and the time it held, reads with each person's own permissions, and writes nothing without a person's approval. On your own tenant, billed by the hour, step by step.