[nevrai]

## Blog

Building in public. Lessons from shipping AI products solo.

· 7 min read

Semantic Entity Resolution Without LLM: When Cosine > 0.92 Is Enough

How a three-level resolver cuts entity deduplication costs by 85% by reserving LLM calls for the 5% of cases that actually need them.

· 10 min read

PostgreSQL as a Graph Database: CTE + pgvector + pg_trgm = No Neo4j Needed

How to build a production knowledge graph on PostgreSQL using recursive CTEs, pgvector, and RRF fusion — without touching Neo4j.

· 9 min read

Bi-Temporal Knowledge Graph: Why Facts Get Invalidated, Not Deleted

Why overwriting facts destroys institutional memory — and how bi-temporal storage preserves the full history of what you knew and when you knew it.

· 8 min read

Switch Formula From Data, Not From Assumptions

Why most teams build Switch Formula from guesses — and how to extract it from Knowledge Graph data instead.

· 9 min read

26 Data Points × Knowledge Graph = Autopilot for Product Research

How combining 26 JTBD data points with a Knowledge Graph turns manual research coding into real-time autopilot.

· 7 min read

Evidence-Traced Artifacts: Every Claim in Your PRD Has a Source

How a four-layer Knowledge Graph architecture makes every AI-generated statement verifiable — so you can trace any claim back to its source interview.

· 8 min read

The Best KG System Is Useless With One User: Tech vs PMF

I built 38 features into a Knowledge Graph system. One active user. Here's what went wrong and what I'm doing differently.

· 9 min read

Institutional Memory: When the Knowledge Graph Knows More Than Anyone on the Team

How a four-layer knowledge graph transforms scattered research into organizational memory that persists across teams and projects.

· 7 min read

Contradiction Detection: When AI Notices You're Contradicting Yourself

How a four-step pipeline using embeddings, semantic search, and bi-temporal storage automatically detects when new facts conflict with old ones.

· 8 min read

Predecessor Errors: 6 Bugs in One Session and How the Factory Learns

An AI agent skipped 147 lines of docs, triggered six cascading failures, and cost $50 to fix. Here is how Factory OS turns disasters into rules.

· 8 min read

71% Orphan Nodes: How I Built a Graph That Wasn't Actually a Graph

1083 nodes, 388 edges, and 769 nodes with zero connections. How I found the problem and got orphan rate down from 71% to 53%.

· 10 min read

38 Features in One Session: How AI Factory Builds Product

Knowledge Graph v2, Competitive Intelligence, Trend Monitoring — 38 capabilities, 22 commits, ~6500 lines of code, zero manual writing by the CEO.

· 7 min read

Don't Trust the Agent: Why Auditing Every Milestone Is Non-Negotiable

14 tests passed. 3 critical bugs survived. Here is the audit checklist that catches what tests miss.

· 8 min read

Smart Model Cascade: How to Not Die from Rate Limits on Free Models

50 concurrent users, free tier exhausted in 2 minutes. The architecture that keeps uptime at 100% for $2.40/month.

· 8 min read

Knowledge Graph for Product Research: Why RAG Is Not Enough

RAG is great for finding text. Product research requires understanding relationships. Here is why I built a methodology-native Knowledge Graph instead.

· 14 min read

AI Is More Human Than You Think

Forgets things. Skims long documents. Gets sloppy under load. Doubles down on mistakes. The cognitive failure catalog — and what to do about it.

· 12 min read

AI Reasoning Collapse: Why the Longer the Conversation, the Worse the Output

Every error correction adds tokens to the context. Those tokens bias the next response. The fix is architectural, not conversational.

· 11 min read

Why AI Agents Fail in Finance — and How I Fixed It

Five agents at 95% accuracy each. Joint accuracy: 67%. Every third report contains an error. The fix is verification loops, not better prompts.

· 13 min read

A Manager With Zero Code Will Outcompete Your Best Developer

The most powerful AI use case isn't for engineers — it's for experienced managers who can instantly spot when something is wrong.

· 6 min read

nevrai: LEGO for AI Products

Five independent API modules that handle the infrastructure every AI product has to rebuild from scratch — so you can build the actual product instead.

· 12 min read

How I Built a 31-Subsystem SaaS Platform Solo in One Month

Building AICPO — a product research platform with 31 interconnected subsystems — without writing a single line of code manually.

· 10 min read

Factory OS: How to Turn AI Agents Into a Reliable Engineering Team

A methodology for AI-native development — 15 specialized roles, 40+ explicit rules, and independent quality gates that make autonomous coding reliable.

· 10 min read

From Managing 150 People to Solo AI Builder

Career path: PUNKT E (revenue x5.7) to Mafin (scaling) to why I went solo and what Factory OS enables.

· 9 min read

Knowledge Graph: How AI Sees Connections and How to Verify Every Claim

Why 'the AI thinks so' is the worst argument in product research — and how a knowledge graph makes every recommendation traceable to specific user words.

· 11 min read

AI-Native Development: Not 'Use ChatGPT', But Architecture

The difference between AI-assisted and AI-native development — and why restructuring how work gets done matters more than which model you use.

· 8 min read

Dual-Brain: How to Cut AI Costs 90% Without Losing Quality

Most AI chats route every message through the same expensive model. A two-tier routing system cuts costs dramatically while keeping response quality the same.

· 8 min read

I Built 6 Products in 3 Weeks as a Solo Founder

How I shipped 6 AI products with zero employees, $15/month infrastructure, and an AI agent factory that does most of the work.

· 10 min read

I Built 9 AI Products Solo — Here's Every Single One

A breakdown of all 9 products: what each does, the tech stack, and what it costs to run and maintain.

· 7 min read

Self-Evolving Prompts: A System That Improves Without You

Most AI products run on static prompts that never change. Here's how to build a feedback loop that automatically improves prompt quality every week.

· 9 min read

Factory OS vs Cursor vs Copilot: What Actually Works in Production

Three levels of AI in software development — autocomplete, AI-IDE, and AI team — and when each one makes sense.

· 6 min read

The $15/Month Stack

Every tool and service I use to run 6 AI products. Total infrastructure cost: $15/month. Here is what works, what breaks, and when to upgrade.

· 10 min read

How to Actually Implement AI Agents in a Corporation

87% of Russian companies plan to adopt AI. 10% have. The gap isn't technology — it's approach. A practical framework for going from pilot to transformation.

· 8 min read

My AI CEO Runs While I Sleep

Inside Factory OS: a custom AI agent orchestration system with 15 roles that builds, tests, and deploys code autonomously.