Notes
Notes on AI in production.
Ragu AI is an AI consultancy. We take one workflow past the pilot and into production, inside your cloud and your access controls, with review gates, an audit trail on every answer and a way back.
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18 Sep 2026
The week-four decision
Four weeks is long enough to know whether an AI initiative deserves a build, and the cheapest point at which to hear no.
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17 Sep 2026
What a review gate is, and why production AI needs one
A review gate is a point in an AI workflow where a named person approves, changes or reverses an action before it reaches the business.
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16 Sep 2026
What an AI consultancy costs in 2026
An AI consultancy engagement runs from about $20,000 for a scoped assessment to fixed-fee builds in the low six figures; here is what moves the number.
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15 Sep 2026
The pilot-to-production gap
Most AI pilots that fail did not fail technically; they stalled because nobody owned the decision to put them in front of real work.
If the pilot worked and the business didn’t change, talk to us.
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